Keynote lecture: 

Quantitative understanding of a livings system and its engineering for human therapy

Luis Serrano - Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain

Poster Preview 

Multi-scale design of synthetic gene circuits

Jörg Stelling - ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Synthetic transcription factors tuneable synthetic control of the complex bacterial ntr regulon

Jörg Schumacher - Imperial College London, UK

Enzyme-level perturbations by CRISPRi reveal control principles of E. coli primary metabolism

Stefano Donati - Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany

Decoding development: From cis-regulatory structure to function
Justin Crocker - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

A large-scale exploration of cell-free compositions to maximize protein production using reinforcement learning

Oliver Borkowski - French National Institute of Agricultural Research, France 

10:45-11:15

Coffee break

Optogenetic control of protein amyloidogenesis in bacteria

Rafael Giraldo - National Centre for Biotechnology, Spain

Towards model-guided assembly of synthetic microbial communities
Kiran Patil - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

A novel platform for generating artificial gene expression systems in bacteria and yeast

Rahmi Lale - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Extended Discussion, Engineering as an interpretative frame for Biology, including selected oral poster presentation by 

Wiggert Altenburg #37

Stefano Fedi #49

Eunice Azevedo Ferreira #50

Adrien Fleck #51

Cécile Jacry #55

Shivangi Mishra #62

Tina Petric #67

Reem Swidah #74

Isaac Wong #77

Lunch

Session 2 - Interfacing Biology with our software and hardware

Chair: Jean-Loup Faulon - MICALIS, INRA, France

Turning genetic switches into alternative metabolic regimes

Victor de Lorenzo - Centro National de Biotechnologia, Spain

Ohm's Law for emergent gene expression under fitness pressure    

Mark Isalan - Imperial College London, UK

Synthetic Optogenetic Differentiation System for Bioproduction in Budding Yeast

Chetan Aditya - INRIA-Saclay & Institut Pasteur, France

Engineering bacterial electroactivity

Robert Bradley - Imperial College London, UK

Towards a circular carbon economy - interfacing electrochemistry and (synthetic) microbial metabolism

Nico Claassens - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany

15:35-16:05

Coffee break

Interfacing Machine Learning with Biological Systems

Jean-Loup Faulon - MICALIS, INRA, France

Molecular upgrading of the performance limits of bacterial sensors for the remote detection of buried explosive devices

Benjamin Shemer - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Extended Discussion, Interfacing Biology with our software and hardware, including selected oral poster presentation by

Melchior du Lac #46

Natalie Farny #48

Amir Pandi #66

Hari Krishna Salila Vijayalal Mohan #69

Poster Session 1 (odd numbers)

Dinner in the EMBL Canteen

09:00-09:25

Gut Feelings: Quantifying bacterial growth in the mammalian gut using a single-cell synthetic oscillator

David Riglar - Imperial College London, UK

Spatial pattern formation in morphogen gradients controlled by the toggle switch

Yolanda  Schaerli - University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Modulating Gene Expression using Ribonucleases, small RNAs and portable RNA stabilizing sequences

Cecilia Arraiano - Universidado Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Engineering synthetic methylotrophy to gain insight into C1 metabolism and more

Stephanie Heux - National Institute of Applied Sciences, France

Extended discussion, Minimal Systems, including selected oral poster presentation by

Hafna Ahmed #36

Reza Amini Hounejani #38

Kimberly Arnold #40

Mary Aubry #41

Dirk Benzinger #42

Ashok Kumar Bhagat #43

Sara Castaño-Cerezo #44

Escarlet Díaz-Galicia #45

Divide et impera

Barbara di Ventura - University of Freiburg, Germany

Decoding the combinatorial logic of BMP signaling

Heidi Klumpe - California Institute of Technology, USA

Precision and Plasticity in Animal Transcription

Angela De Pace - Harvard Medical School, USA

Extended discussion, Cell engineering, including selected oral poster presentation by

Kristoffer Falkenberg #47

Rafael Giraldo #52

Shubhasish Goswami #53

Yash Jawale #56

Ekaterina Kozaeva #57

Brijesh Kumar #58

Alaro Lara #59

Renu Maan #60

Lunch

Synthetic toxin-intein combinations as novel genetic weapons for specific killing of pathogenic bacteria
Didier Mazel, Institut Pasteur, France

On the feasibility of complex synthetic biological circuits

Carlos Toscano-Ochoa - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

In vivo assessment of enzymatic activities in a synthetic pathway
Gilles Truan - National Institute of Applied Sciences, France

Extended discussion, Cell engineering /Protein design 

Isabel Martinez Ferrando #61

Lummy Maria Oliveira Monteiro #63

Mihkel Örd #65

Viktor Stein #72

Ruud Stoof #73

Engineering synthetic bacterial genome architectures towards exploring organizational principles

A symmetric toggle switch explains the onset of random X inactivation in different mammals

Edda Schulz - Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany

Extended Discussion, Cell consortia engineering including selected oral poster presentation by 

Patrícia Apura #39

Angeles Hueso-Gil #54

Amira Moussa #64

Christopher Reinkemeier #68

Yolanda Schaerli #70

Ada Scarrott #71

Vyacheslav Tretyachenko #75

Sophie Tschripke #76

Reprogramming the Genetic Code
Jason Chin - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK

Modularity in gene regulation: shadow enhancers as building blocks of a modular design of gene regulatory systems

Ezzat El-Sherif - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

A Semi-synthetic organism that stores and retrieves increased genetic information
Floyd Romesberg - Synthorx, Inc., USA

Unraveling neural circuit function by building new synthetic connections in the brain

Ithai Rabinowitch - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Re-inventing photosynthesis with synthetic biology: Developing an artificial Chloroplast drop-by-drop
Tobias Erb - Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany

Minimal cell systems created, manipulated and analysed using microfluidics

Naresh Yandrapalli - Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany

Extended discussion,Prebiotic biochemistry and xenobiology and poster prize announcements 

Coffee break

Keynote lecture: Mammalian Synthetic Biology:  Foundation and Therapeutic Applications
Ron Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Lunch to go and departure

Bus downtown and Frankfurt Airport