2016 Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED)

Session: Accepted Posters

Presentations

Production of a Modular Toolkit for Creating Prosthetic Gene Networks within Yeast
William Shaw, Tom Ellis, Mark Wigglesworth
"Passcode" Kill Switch: Modular Hybrid Transcription Factors for Programmable Biocontainment
Clement T. Y. Chan, James J Collins
Developing Sugarcane and Energy Cane As Highly Productive Biofactory Platforms
T. Erik Mirkov, Mona B. Damaj, Carmen S. Padilla, Getu Beyene, John L. Jifon, Juan Enciso
Selective Nitrogen Delivery to Regulate and Optimize Synthetic Microbial Consortia for Biochemical Production
Protease-Based Feedback for Overcoming Growth Rate and Enzymatic Queueing Limitations
Marios Tomazou, Guy-Bart Stan
Piace: Parallel Integration and Chromosomal Expansion of Biofuels Pathways in E. coli
Garima Goyal, Aram Kang, Nathan J Hillson
Construction and Characterization of Biological Circuits to Create a Synthetic Bacterial Consortium to Divide Genetic Functions and Reduce the Metabolic Burden
Ana Zuñiga, Angel Goñi, Gonzalo Ruz, Bernardo Gonzalez
The Operon Calculator: Automated Design of Synthetic Operon Sequences Using 15 Models and Design Rules
Daniel Cetnar
Efflux Pump-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance in Dynamic Environments
Ariel Langevin, Mary Dunlop
Integrated Biocad Toolchain Enables Search for Experimentally Validated Components
Hector Plahar, Mark Forrer, Jacob Coble, William Morrell, Jay D. Keasling, paul D. Adams, Hector Garcia Martin, Nathan J Hillson
Seeing the Invisible: Exploting Crosstalk to Measure Genetic Constructs In Vivo
Ariel Hecht, Drew Endy, Marc Salit, Matthew S. Munson
MYtxtl® an E. coli Based Cell-Free Transcription-Translation (TXTL) Kit for Bio-Manufacturing
Evelyn Eggenstein, Jean-Marie Rouillard, Benjamin P. Steil
Secretion and Self-Assembly of Protein-Protein Conjugates from Bacillus Subtilis
Charlie Gilbert, Tom Ellis
Molecular Membrane Engineering for Nanoreactors
Natalie Di Bartolo, Joanna Komar, Mike Jones, Ian Collinson, David Swainsbury
When Wavelengths Collide: Bias in Cell Abundance Measurements Due to Expressed Fluorescent Proteins
Ariel Hecht, Drew Endy, Marc Salit, Matthew S. Munson
RNA Information Processors for Complex In Vivo Logic Computation
James J Collins, Alexander A. Green, Pamela A. Silver, Jongmin Kim, Duo Ma
Engineering Efficient Specialist Strains for a Synthetic Multi-Species Microbial Consortium
Xiaoxia (Nina) Lin, Tatyana Saleski
Interactions Between Non Homologous End Joining Repair and Type II Crispr-Cas Systems
Aude Bernheim, Marie Touchon, Eduardo PC Rocha, David Bikard
Universal Expression System for Eukaryotic Microorganisms
Anssi Rantasalo, Christopher Landowski, Joosu Kuivanen, Jussi Jantti, Dominik Mojzita
A Cas9-Based Toolkit to Program Gene Expression in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Leo d'Espaux, Amanda Reider Apel, Maren Wehrs, Daniel Sachs, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Megan Garber
Engineering a Leather Biomaterial
Karoly Jakab, Francoise Marga, Ryan Kaesser, Darryl Cassingham, Ellie Brown, Joe Lee, Samuel Budoff, Julia Borden, Gabor Forgacs, David Williamson
High-Throughput DNA Assembly Pipeline for Natural Product Discovery in Streptomycetes
Szu-Yi Hsu
Spatial Ratiometric Analysis for Intrinsic Plant Promoter Activity
Bernardo Pollak, Jim Haseloff, Fernan Federici
Expression Mutant Screening for Improved Benzylisoquinoline Production in Yeast 
Judy Savitskaya, Adam P. Arkin
High-Throughput Evolution of in Vitro Orthogonal Translation Systems Via an Integrated Platform Merging Cell-Free Protein Synthesis and Microfluidics
Tuan M. Tran, Michael C. Jewett
Novel Lactate Biosensor for Use in Low Oxygen Conditions
Linda Dekker
Characterization of Co-Transcriptional RNA Structure Evolution Using Shape-Seq
Eric J. Strobel, Angela M. Yu
Role of Plasmid Copy Number in the Dynamics of a Single Gene Oscillator
Marcella M. Gomez, Matthew R. Bennett, David L. Shis, Anandh Swaminathan
Using Business Process Management to Enhance Synthetic Biology Workflows
Christopher Reynolds, Jocelyne Holdbrook, Catherine M. Ainsworth, Matthieu A. Bultelle, Iñaki Sainz de Murieta, Richard I. Kitney
Whole Genome Regulator Mutant Library for Expedited Identification of Beneficial Mutations for Enhanced Tolerance Towards Environmental Stress
Alaksh Choudhury, Ryan T Gill, Andrew Garst
Acoustic Reporter Genes for High-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging of Engineered Bacteria In Vivo
Raymond W. Bourdeau, Audrey Lee-Gosselin, Anupama Lakshmanan, Sripriya Kumar, Arash Farhadi, Mikhail Shapiro
Massively-Parallel Laboratory Evolution of Bacteriophage T7 Reveals Differential Evolutionary Utility of Expanded Genetic Codes
Michael J. Hammerling, Jeffrey E. Barrick, Daniel E. Deatherage
Design and Implementation of Whole-Cell Biosensors for Micronutrient Detection in Low Resource Environments
Monica McNerney, Mark Styczynski
Synthetic Speciation: New Technology for Transgene Biocontainment and Pest Biocontrol
Maciej Maselko, Michael J. Smanski, Stephen Heinsch, Sabina Kim
Enhancing Tolerance to Potato Zebra Chip Disease Using a Transgenic Approach
T. Erik Mirkov, Kelvin Chiong, Olivia De Hoyos
Gene Co-Expression Highlights Coordination of Microbial Community Behavior
Alex S. Beliaev, Ryan S. McClure, Christopher C. Overall, Jason McDermott, Eric Hill, Hans C. Bernstein
Dynamic Responses of Laci/Galr Chimera-Based Transcriptional Logic Gates
Andrew Hirning, Marcella Gomez, Matthew Bennett
Sequence to Activity Mapping: Computational Approaches and Experimental Tools
Andrew Garst, Marcelo Bassalo, Andrea Halweg-Edwards
Morphogenetic Engineering of Bacterial Colonies.
Fernan Federici, Tim Rudge, Ilenne del Valle, Jim Haseloff, Anton Kan, Isaac Nuñez, Tamara Matute
RNA Roadblocks: Hairpins for Protein Level Tuning in S. Cerevisiae.
Tom Ellis, Tim Weenink
Development and Implementation of an Automated Data Analysis Workflow for High Throughput Part Characterisation Data
Catherine M. Ainsworth, Matthieu A. Bultelle, Iñaki Sainz de Murieta, Richard I. Kitney
Precise Control of Lycopene Production to Enable a Fast-Responding, Minimal-Equipment Biosensor
Mark Styczynski, Monica McNerney
Improvements to Nitrogen Production in a Model Bacterium for Biofertilizer Application
Brett M. Barney
A Cell-Free Transcription-Translation Kit (MYtxtl®) for Rapid Prototyping of Transcription Units Assembled from Error-Free Modular Parts
Evelyn Eggenstein, Jean-Marie Rouillard, Benjamin P. Steil
Application of a Transient Viral Vector for Efficient Genome Editing in Plants
Will Cody, T. Erik Mirkov, Herman Scholthof
Biophysical Limits of Control Implementations in Synthetic Gene Networks
Aaron J. Dy, James J Collins, Domitilla Del Vecchio
Design and Application of Stationary Phase Combinatorial Promoters
Victoria Hsiao, Aileen Cheng
Engineering RNA Aptamer-Based Gene Circuits for Control of Microbial Interactions
Ryan S. McClure, Alexander S. Beliaev
Computational Colloids: Engineered Bacteria As Computational Agents in the Design and Manufacture of New Materials and Structures
Martyn Dade-Robertson, Aurelie Guyet, Javier Rodriguez Corral, Anil Wipat, Helen Mitrani, Meng Zhang
Integration of an Inducer-Producing Metabolic Pathway in an Artificial Cell
Angelique Coutable, T-Y. Dora Tang, Richard Booth, Adam W. Perriman, Stephen Mann, J. L. Ross Anderson