Theory and Practice of Synthetic Biology

Track Chair(s)

• AX

  Alexander Xu, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  University of Maryland College Park
• MM

  Megan McLean

Session Chair(s)

• 

  Vivek Kumar, PhD

  Associate Professor
  University of Houston
  Houston, Texas, United States
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  Johane Bracamonte, Dr

  Postdoctoral Scholar
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM PDT

  Microbial Community Colony Morphology as a Medium towards Biological Information Processing
  

  Presenting Author: Kristen Lok – Duke University

  Primary Investigator: Lingchong You – Duke University
• 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM PDT

  Tunable, self-contained gene dosage control via proteolytic cleavage of CRISPR-Cas
  

  Presenting Author: Noa Katz, Dr. – Stanford

  Primary Investigator: Xiaojing Gao, Ph.D. – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Connie An – Stanford

  Co-Author: Yu-Ju Lee – McGill University

  Co-Author: Meng Zhang – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Jeewoo Kang – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Wei-Hsiang Huang – McGill University
• 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM PDT

  Single-Molecule Sensors Integrated with Machine Learning Enable Early Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis and Breast Cancer
  

  Presenting Author: Justin Rolando, PhD – Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering

  Last Author: David Walt – Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering

  Primary Investigator: David Walt – Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering
• 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

  Programming human cell type-specific gene expression via artificial intelligence models of chromatin accessibility
  

  Presenting Author: Sebastian Castillo-Hair, PhD – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Christopher Yin – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Leah VandenBosch – Seattle Children's Research Institute

  Co-Author: Timothy Cherry – Seattle Children's Research Institute

  Co-Author: Wouter Meuleman – Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences

  Co-Author: Georg Seelig – University of Washington

  Primary Investigator: Georg Seelig – University of Washington
• 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM PDT

  High-Throughput Functional Mapping of Protein Biosensors via Deep Mutational Profiling
  

  Presenting Author: Rajesh Ghosh, PhD – UCLA

  Last Author: Dino Di Carlo – UCLA
• 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM PDT

  Logic-based network model calibrated with machine-learning predicts the effect of drug therapies on cardiac hypertrophy induced by multiple different interventions
  

  Presenting Author: Johane H. Bracamonte, Dr – University of Alabama at Birmingham

  Primary Investigator: Johane H. Bracamonte, Dr – University of Alabama at Birmingham

  Co-Author: Lionel Watkins – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Betty Pat, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham

  Co-Author: Jeffrey J. Saucerman, Ph.D. – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Jeffrey W. Holmes, MD, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham

  Last Author: Jeffrey W. Holmes, MD, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham