3rd International Conference on Plant Synthetic Biology, Bioengineering, and Biotechnology

Session: New Tools and Technologies in Synthetic Biology

Presentations

10:00 AM

Synthetic Biology and Fermentation Platforms for the Production of High-Value Plant Natural Products
Wanli Lu

10:15 AM

Microbial Cell Factories for Plant Secondary Metabolites - Engineering Glucosinolates in Bacteria and Yeast
Michal Poborsky, Barbara Ann Halkier, Christoph Crocoll, Annette Petersen

10:30 AM

Designing Chloroplast Expression Systems with Predictable Protein Output
Pal Maliga, Qiguo Yu, Alice Barkan

10:45 AM

Synthetic Biology and Microfluidics to Engineer Lipid Metabolism in Marine Algae
Katrin Geisler, Alison Smith, Ziyi Yu

11:00 AM

Rapidly Reprogramming Plants with RNA Vectors
Arjun Khakhar, Daniel Voytas, Michael J. Smanski

11:15 AM

CRISPR-Enabled Complex Trait Loci for Gene Stacking in Maize
Huirong Gao, Josh K. Young, Jasdeep Mutti, Meizhu Yang, Megan Schroder, Brian Lenderts, Lijuan Wang, Grace St. Claire, Spencer Jones, Lanie Feigenbutz, Min Zeng, Susan Wagner, Xiaoyi Sopko, Jeffry D. Sander, Scott D. Betts, N. Doane Chilcoat

11:30 AM

Computational Tools for the Discovery of Novel Specialized Metabolic Pathways in Plants
Marnix Medema

12:00 PM

Plant Reactome Knowledgebase: A Resource for Plant Synthetic Biology
Sushma Naithani, Justin Preece, Parul Gupta, Peter D’Eustachio, Justin Elser, Pankaj Jaiswal

12:15 PM

Looking Beyond GWAS: Identifying Functional Roles of SNPs Using Metabolic Networks in Arabidopsis and Populus
Debolina Sarkar, Costas Maranas

12:30 PM

Use of mRNA Secondary Structure to Fine-Tune and Regulate Translation in Chloroplasts
Lars B. Scharff