Synthetic Biology and Genetic Engineering Toolkits

Session Chair(s)

• 

  Vivek Kumar, PhD

  Associate Professor
  University of Houston
  Houston, Texas, United States
• 

  Congyue Peng

  Research Assistant Professor
  Clemson University, United States

Track Chair(s)

• AA

  Aylin Acun, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Widener University
  Avondale, Pennsylvania, United States
• CT

  Cheemeng Tan

  Professor
  University of California, Davis
  Davis, California, United States

Presentations:

• 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM PDT

  MAGIK: A rapid and efficient method to create lineage-specific reporters in human pluripotent stem cells
  

  Presenting Author: Xiaojun Lian, PhD – Pennsylvania State University
• 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM PDT

  Engineering Genetic Tools to Control Individual Microbes and Microbiota without Antibiotic Resistance Genes at a Single Strain Level
  

  Presenting Author: Tae Seok Moon, PhD – J. Craig Venter Institute

  Last Author: Tae Seok Moon, PhD – J. Craig Venter Institute

  Primary Investigator: Tae Seok Moon, PhD – J. Craig Venter Institute
• 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM PDT

  Applications of ZNF865 CRISPR-activation Upregulation in Biopharmaceutics
  

  Presenting Author: Hunter Levis, PhD – University of Utah

  Co-Author: Lauren Kelly – University of Utah

  Co-Author: Jessica Kramer – University of Utah

  Last Author: Robby Bowles – University of Utah
• 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM PDT

  GLUT1 and CD44-Targeted Natural Killer Cell Surface Engineering for Blood-Brain Barrier Transmigration and Precision Glioblastoma Immunotherapy
  

  Presenting Author: Minseon Ryu – Dongguk University

  Primary Investigator: Kyobum Kim – Dongguk University
• 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM PDT

  Brain tumor-specific safety mechanism engineering of therapeutic probiotics
  

  Presenting Author: Sophia Windemuth, B.S., M.S. – Columbia University