OpenPlant Forum 2019 Programme
Monday 29 July
OPENPLANT BIOMAKER PROGRESS REPORTS AND PROJECT SHOWCASE (www.biomaker.org)
13:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Teams 1-15
15:30-16:00 Afternoon tea
16:00-17:00 Teams 16-27
17:00-18:00 Drinks reception and showcase set-up
18:00-19:00 Showcase & dinner buffet
Projects:
An open-source dynamic light scattering device for nanoparticles sizing
LunaFlow: Bioluminescent plankton for 3D flow visualisations of pressure fields
Pressure controlled micro-manipulation of bioluminescent microorganisms
Stress priming for improved production of biotech-relevant compound in green alga
Mechanisms for direct electron transfer (DIET) between Geobacter and Methanothrix
Diabetes diagnosis and management using Arduino and mobile user interface
Developing an Open & Affordable 3D Bioprinter
Droplet-based microfluidics to mimic the compartmentation of metabolism in multicellular systems
e-CO-SENSE – Biophotovoltaic Powered Soil Sensors
An open toolkit for engineering microbial interactions
Establishing a joint UK-Kenya Phytoplasma research initiative
Build Your Own DNA Dave
Low Cost SLM Interface Board for Advanced Microscopy
SAFE - Safe Air For Everyone
Variable-time cameras with image recognition for inexpensive, large-scale monitoring of plant pollination events
Low Cost Oxygen Sensor for Bioreactors
MACRO IMAGER: a low-cost multi-purpose large area macro digital photography phenotyping station
A behavioural chamber to evaluate rodent forelimb grasping performance
Low cost Incubator to grow mycelium biotextile
Aeroponics for All
A neural sensor for early-stage cancer detection
In-situ 3D visualization using X-ray CT during mechanical testing of natural cellular materials
BrewerMicro – DIY microscope for counting yeast
IoHeat
Did the organellar transit peptide duplicate itself to make a disordered linker protein?
Identification of genes involved in chloroplast division by comparison of temporal transcriptomics of C. reinhardtii and A. thaliana
Engineering Low-cost Turbidostat Systems for Running Microbial Evolution Experiments
Tuesday 30 July (Day 1)
8:30 Registration & Coffee
9:00 SBRC PLANT & MAMMALIAN ENGINEERING
Open Systems for Engineering Plants Prof Jim Haseloff (Dept. of Plant Sciences, Univ. of Cambridge)
Harnessing Plant Metabolic Diversity Prof Anne Osbourn (Dept. of Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre)
Mammalian Synthetic Biology: the current state of play Prof Susan Rosser (School of Engineering, Univ. of Edinburgh)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 SYNTHETIC GENE SYSTEMS
Towards monitoring, prediction, and control in mammalian cells Dr Leopold Parts (Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Decode and Reprogram a genome Prof Junbiao Dai (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Reprogramming the Genetic Code Prof Jason Chin (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
12:30 Lunch & Poster Session I
14:00 MODELLING AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Automated Reasoning for Biological Networks Dr Sara-Jane Dunn (Microsoft Research)
Understanding time-dependent gene-environment interactions: Tools to design and analyse experiments Dr Daphne Ezer (Alan Turing Institute)
Re-engineering geometric size control in fission yeast Prof Martin Howard (Dept. of Computational and Systems Biology, John Innes Centre)
15:30 Afternoon Tea
16:00 ENTERPRISE FOR THE BIOECONOMY (TALKS & PANEL)
Contextualisation of Colorifix Prof Jim Ajioka (Colorifix)
Tropic’s Inspiration, Work & Impact Dr Eyal Maori (Tropic Biosciences)
Sugars on the surface – diagnostics and vaccines Prof Rob Field (Iceni Diagnostics)
Persephone Bio: phytocosmetics from metabolically engineered tomato extracts Dr Eugenio Butelli (Persephone Bio)
A radically different approach to DNA synthesis using silicon chips Dr Tim Brears (Evonetix)
17:00 Finish
18:00 Drinks reception
19:00 Conference Dinner (registration required)
Wednesday 31 July (Day 2)
8:30 Registration & Coffee
9:00 NOVEL APPROACHES AND TECHNOLOGIES I
UC2 – An Open-Source Optical Toolbox for Multi-Modal Imaging in the Incubator Benedict Diederich, René Richter (Heintzmann Group, Bio-Nanoimaging, Leibniz, IPTH, Jena, Germany)
Genome Editing in Patient-Relevant Model Systems Dr Stephanie Mack (Russell lab, Cancer Research UK)
Advances in Genome Editing of wheat and barley Prof Wendy Harwood (Dept. of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre)
Understanding and engineering biological networks Dr Somenath Bakshi (Dept. of Engineering, Univ. of Cambridge)
On the way to a plant made Polio vaccine – Success and challenges Dr Daniel Ponndorf (Lomonossoff Lab, Dept. of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre)
Sexy Plant 2.0: For a Sustainable Bioproduction of Insect Pheromones Dr Kalyani Kallam (Patron lab, Dept. of Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute)
10:50 Coffee Break
11:20 REPROGRAMMING EUKARYOTE SYSTEMS
DICER-mediated Reprogramming of Cell Fate Specification in Marchantia polymorpha Prof Mario A. Arteaga-Vazquez (INBIOTECA, University of Veracruz)
Systematic tools for reprogramming a simple plant, Marchantia polymorpha Dr Susana Sauret-Gueto (Haseloff Lab, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Univ. of Cambridge)
Marchantia and the chloroplast Dr Eftychis Frangedakis (Haseloff Lab, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Univ. of Cambridge)
12:30 Lunch & Poster Session II
14:00 NOVEL APPROACHES AND TECHNOLOGIES II
Systematic review of natural triterpene oxidation diversity provides focus to the search for new synthetic biology tools Dr Michael Stephenson (Osbourn Lab, Dept. of Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre)
Improving Nicotiana benthamiana as a bioproduction system for proteins and small molecules Dr Quentin Dudley (Patron lab, Dept. of Engineering Biology, Earlham Institute)
Expanding the toolkit for plant cell wall polysaccharide engineering Louis Wilson (Dupree Lab, Dept. of Biochemistry, Univ. of Cambridge)
Responses to oomycete infection in Marchantia polymorpha David Hoey (Schornack Lab, Sainsbury Laboratory, Univ. of Cambridge)
Electronic control of gene expression in cyanobacteria Dr Stephen Rowden (Howe Lab, Dept of. Biochemistry, Univ. of Cambridge)
"Viruses in motion": a close look at virus maturation through cryo-electron microscopy Roger Castells Graells (Lomonossoff Lab, Dept. of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre)
15:30 Coffee and conference closure
16:00 SAB meeting (SAB members and Management Group only)
18:00 Dinner and drinks at OtherSyde (by invite only)
