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Steven Zeichner, UVA: Synthetic Biology Approach to Novel Vaccine Development https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/author/Q64447346
Myriam Cotten, William & Mary: Identifying Principles in Peptide Engineering: Lessons Learned from the Amazing World of Host-Defense Peptides https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/author/Q64447649
Fengbin "Jerry" Wang, Egelman Lab, UVA: CryoEM: A Powerful Tool for Understanding Biological and Synthetic Polymers
Mike Timko, UVA: Metabolic Engineering for Plant Based Human Therapeutics
Hai Liu (not on the program): Smart Metabolic Engineering of Plants for the Production of Human Nutraceuticals and Therapeutics
Deyu Xie, NC State: Gene Design-based Alteration of the Terpenoid Pathway Increases Plant Growth and Biomass
Ameer Shakeel, CSO of Agrospheres: Synthetically Engineered Solutions for Bio-Controls in Agriculture
Ed Eisenstein, UMD: Systems, Structural and Synthetic Biology to Develop Next-Gen Plants for Biofuel
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Pam Silver, Harvard University Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering
Designing Biology for Health and Sustainability
iGEM 2019 is Oct 31- Nov 4 in Boston: https://2019.igem.org/ . UVA has a team participating.
Steven Fong, VCU: Engineering Non-Model Organisms for Biochemical Production
Bryan Berger, UVA: Biomanufacturing of Advanced, Functional Nanomaterials
Preetam Ghosh, VCU: Information Theory Models of Molecular Communication and Cellular Signaling
Hannes Schniepp, William & Mary: Unlocking the Mysteries of a Biogenic Wonder Material: Understanding Spider Silk from the Molecular to the Meter Scales
Mark Styczynski, GA Tech: Low-Resource, Low-Cost Diagnostics Via Synthetic Biology
Key take-aways:
The agenda is in this Gdoc, and there is this overview page.
Organized by SynBio@UVA
No slides shared, nobody seems to be tweeting on this