2017 Agenda
THURSDAY, October 26
Morning - MSU Union Lake Huron Room
Session One - Michaela TerAvest, Chair
| Start | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 |
Douglas Gage |
Welcome |
| 9:05 | Tomomi Takeuchi BMB, MSU |
Control of Quiescence and Cell Division by Compromised Hydrolysis of TAG 7 (CHT7) Protein in Chlamydonas reinhardtii. |
| 9:20 | Woncheol Kim BASF |
Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology |
| 9:55 | Caroline Ajo-Franklin Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
Creating Electronically-Controlled Microorganisms with Synthetic Biology |
| 10:30 | Cecilia Martinez-Gomez MMG, MSU |
Unraveling plant-microbe interactions dependent on rare earth elements |
| 10:50 | Coffee Break |
Session Two - Anastasiya Lavell, Chair
| Start | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 11:10 | Bryan Leong PLB, MSU |
Evolutionary innovations enhance metabolic diversity: acylglucose biosynthesis in Solanum pennellii trichomes |
| 11:25 | Sue Rhee Carnegie Institution |
Organization, function and evolution of plant metabolism |
| 12:00 | Malia Gehan Danforth Center |
Quantifying Variation of Crop Resilience Under Temperature and Drought Stress |
| 12:35 | Lunch |
Afternoon - MSU Union Lake Huron Room
Session Three - Bryan Leong, Chair
| Start | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1:15 | Lynn J. Rothschild NASA, Ames Research Center |
On beyond Star Trek: Synthetic biology and the future of space exploration |
| 2:05 | Imad Ajjawi Synthetic Genomics |
Boosting lipid productivity of the oleaginous microalga Nannochloropsis gaditana via genome engineering |
| 2:40 | Brian St. Aubin PLB, MSU |
Internship: 3Bar Biologics, Microbiome delivery |
| 2:55 | Weiqing Zeng Pioneer/DuPont |
Abiotic Agronomic Trait Development - Market, Science, and Technology |
| 3:30 | Coffee Break |
Session Four - Rob Last, Chair
| Start | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 3:45 | Colleen Friel PLB, MSU |
Resource exchange in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis |
| 4:00 | Greg Bonito Michigan State University |
Evolution and functioning of intracellular bacteria in plant-associated fungi |
| 4:20 | Dan Lybrand Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Internship: Synthetic Genomics, Inc. |
| 4:35 | MSU iGEM Program Michigan State University |
Cyanobacterial Synthetic Biology and Education/Outreach |
| 4:50 | Rob Last Michigan State University |
Session Wrap up and Directions to Poster Session and Dinner |
5:30 Poster Session, MPS Atrium
7:00 Dinner, Horticultural Greenhouse
FRIDAY, October 27
Careers in Biotechnology-Related Fields, 1425 BPS
Tomomi Takeuchi, Chair
| Start | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Marianela Rodriguez BASF |
Bioscience Research at BASF |
| 9:45 | Phil Taylor Monsanto Corporation |
My Career Journey |
| 10:40 | Panelists |
Careers in Industry (10:40-11:25) Careers in Government, Research Institutes and Universities (11:25-12:10) |