Jan 20–23, 2025 | Keystone Resort, Keystone, CO, United States
Scientific Organizers:
Carrie Eckert, Jennifer Charlotte Mortimer, and Mark Blenner

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Scientific Organizers: Carrie Eckert, Jennifer Charlotte Mortimer, and Mark Blenner
Carrie Eckert
Jennifer Charlotte Mortimer
Mark Blenner
***Meeting program subject to change.
Available Formats: = In Person = On DemandMonday, January 20, 2025
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Engineering Plant Chemistry for Plant and Human Health
Engineering Synthetic Pathways Towards Natural Products
The Complex Communications Between Plants and their Microbiota
Tracking Engineered Microbiomes from Space and Over Decades
Sustainable Agriculture Through Persistent Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria
A Single Nucleus Multiomic Atlas of Cannabis sativa Glandular Trichomes Lays the Foundation for Cell Type Specific Heterologous Expression Systems
Improving the Nutritional Quality of Duckweeds
Induced Reprogramming of Protoplasts and Regeneration into Transgene-Free Whole Plants by EppTec
Domestication of Non-Model, Gram-Positive Bacteria
Identification of potential integration sites in transgenic Lemna japonica for use with site-directed gene insertion
Engineering small peptide transcriptional regulation for plant growth improvement by genome editing
Production of Biomass-Oil in Energycane by Metabolic Engineering
Directed Evolution and Machine Learning Identifies Rice Immune Receptor Variants With Enhanced Recognition of a Key Pathogen Ligand
Versatile Split-T7 RNA Polymerase Biosensors for Precision Detection in Prokaryotes
Engineering Rice for Climate Change
Genetic Circuits to Control Root Development
Towards Plants to Address Food, Water and Climate Needs
Using Synthetic Biology to Open New Avenues for Sustainable Agriculture
Short Talk: Engineering Rice Root Exudation for Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Session Chair
Engineering Nitrogen Fixing Cereal Crops
Deployment of Bacteria that Deliver Fixed Nitrogen to Cereals
Healthy Plants; Healthy People - Fortifying Vitamins and Phytonutrients in Tomato
Tools for Plant Engineering to Accelerate Plant-based Production Systems
Short Talk: Cell Evolution of Nitrogen-Fixing Endosymbioses: A Blueprint for Synthetic Self-Fertilizing Plant
Assistant Professor
Vice President, R&D
Program Manager, Biological and Environmental Research
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Addressing the Plastics Problem with Microbial Upcycling
Establishing Cell-Free Systems for Carbon Negative Biomanufacturing
Implementing High Throughput Tools to Study Microbes Involved in Bioremediation
Long-term Fate of Recombinant Genes Released to the Environment 35 Years Ago to Degrade Oil Shale Fire Pollutants
Short Talk: An enzymatic process for asphaltene biotransformation
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Enabling Biomanufacturing through a Philanthropic Lens
Engineering Economical Fermentation at Scale for Protein Production
Short Talk: Application of liquid soil models to study the survival, persistence, and function of engineered bacteria
Short Talk: Molecular farming at Elo Life Systems: Metabolic engineering of the monk fruit sweetener biosynthetic pathway into heterologous crops for commercial production
Short Talk: Development of a Bovine Heat Shock Inducible Gene Expression System for Cultivated Meat
Data-driven design of biosensors for environmental contaminants
Session Chair
Session Chair
Redesigning Plants for Long-Distance Space Exploration and on Earth Sustainability
CRISPR/Cas Genome Editing and Precision Plant Breeding for Disease Resistance
From Promoters to Flowers: Synthetic Biology Tools and Design-Build-Test-Learn Chassis for Reproductive Trait Engineering in Poplar
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Engineering Microbial Systems for the Upgrading of Gaseous Waste Feedstocks to Commodity and Specialty Products
Engineering Microbial Consortia in Soil Ecosystems
Synthetic Biology Tools for Functional Genomics in Bioenergy Relevant Microbes
Choosing The Right Problems: How Can Synthetic Biology And Metabolic Engineering Meaningfully Contribute To Sustainability
Friday, January 24, 2025
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