7:30 AM
7:30 AM
- Registration and Coffee Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - atrium on the ground floor
- 7:30 AM - 8:45 AM | 1 hour 15 minutes
8:45 AM
8:45 AM
- Opening Remarks Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - room S110 (basement level S1)
- 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM | 15 minutes
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Keynote: Tara L. Deans - Utilizing synthetic biology to advance therapeutics Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - room S110 (basement level S1)
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- Utilizing synthetic biology to advance therapeutics. Synthetic biology has transformed how cells can be reprogramme...
- Keynote
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Break: Industrial and Poster Viewing Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - atrium on the ground floor
- 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | 15 minutes
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
- Session 1: Metabolic Engineering and Bioprocessing Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - room S110 (basement level S1)
- 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | 2 hours
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- Lunch Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - atrium on the ground floor
- 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Session 2: Automation for Synthetic Biology Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - room S110 (basement level S1)
- 1:15 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 45 minutes
- Etienne Laurent - MISO Chip - Microfluidic Systems for Next-Generation Functional Cancer Diagnostics
- Noémie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne - Fabrication of textile-protein materials for responsible wearables
- Nicholas Gold - A biofoundry for microbial cell factories and mammalian cell lines: accelerating discovery and development
- 2 Oral presentations selected from abstracts
3:10 PM
3:10 PM
- Educational & Career Development Workshops
- 3:10 PM - 4:00 PM | 50 minutes
- Workshop 1 - Alexandre Rochette - NEB - Golden Gate Workshop for graduate students only - max 20 participants
- Workshop 2 - "Resume workshop and job hunting for scientists" - max 30 participants
- Workshop 3 - "Introduction to Scientific Entrepreneurship by V1 Studio" - max 50 participants
- Sign-up for a workshop here!
- Workshop
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Poster Presentations Loyola campus - Concordia University - CJ building - atrium on the second floor
- 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 2 hours
- 4:00pm - 5:00pm Posters P1-P23- Automation for Synthetic Biology- Systems Biology meets Synthetic Bi...
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
- Dinner Loyola campus - Concordia University - RF building - room 100 (ground floor)
- 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 2 hours
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Announcements Loyola campus - Concordia University - HU building - room 125 (ground floor)
- 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM | 15 minutes
8:15 AM
8:15 AM
- Session 3: Genome Engineering and Therapeutics Loyola campus - Concordia University - HU building - room 125 (ground floor)
- 8:15 AM - 10:15 AM | 2 hours
- Anna Jezierski - Advancing induced pluripotent stem cell derived chimeric antigen receptor based natural killer cell therapy leveraging genome engineering approaches to advance off-the-shelf therapies
- Alejandro Álvarez Quilón - CRISPR and Base Editing Genetic Screens Enable the Discovery and Validation of Drug Targets for Precision Oncology
- Thierry Bertomeu - Large scale genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 chemogenomic KO screens reveal drug mechanisms of action and identify novel gene functions
- 4 Oral presentations selected from abstracts
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
- Break: Industrial and Poster Viewing Loyola campus - Concordia University - HU building - room 115
- 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | 15 minutes
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Session 4: Systems Biology meets Synthetic Biology Loyola campus - Concordia University - HU building - room 125 (ground floor)
- 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 2 hours
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Lunch Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - atrium on the ground floor
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Raymond DiDonato - Avoid the High Costs of Oligo Delays in Gene Synthesis and Protein Engineering with Benchtop Enzymatic DNA Synthesis Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - room S110 (basement level S1)
- 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM | 15 minutes
- Engineered proteins, mRNA constructs and genes are constructed via gene assembly o...
- Talk
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
- Session 5: Gene Regulation and Cell Circuitry Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - room S110 (basement level S1)
- 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 2 hours
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Break: Industrial and Poster Viewing Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - atrium on the ground floor
- 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM | 15 minutes
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
- Keynote: Carl de Boer - Deciphering genome regulation or: How I learned to stop worrying and love random DNA Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - room S110 (basement level S1)
- 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour
- Deciphering genome regulation or: How I learned to stop worrying and love random DNA. Gene expression is regulated ...
- Keynote
4:45 PM
4:45 PM
- Award Announcements and Closing Remarks Loyola campus - Concordia University - SP building - room S110 (basement level S1)
- 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 15 minutes
5:10 PM
5:10 PM
- Networking cocktail reception sponsored by Concordia U, District 3 and AvanceBio Loyola campus - Concordia University - HU building - room S125
- 5:10 PM - 6:00 PM | 50 minutes