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Bay Area Bioengineering Symposium [BABS]
Join us for an in-depth dive into the bioengineering research brewing in the San Francisco Bay Area!
Date and time
Location
Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Hearst Memorial Mining Building Berkeley, CA 94720Agenda
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Registration & Networking Session with Refreshments
10:10 AM - 10:20 AM
Welcoming Remarks: SynBio & iGEM in the Bay ⭐️
J. Christopher Anderson, PhD
10:20 AM - 11:00 AM
Keynote: Challenges for engineering biology for earth and beyond ⭐️
Adam Arkin, PhD
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Drug Discovery of Crucial Proteins From SARS-CoV-2 Virus
Teena Bajaj, Murthy Lab at UC Berkeley
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Unveiling the Layers: The Science Behind Science
Monisha Pillai, UC Santa Cruz iGEM
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
CheRMiT: Chemical Reactions Mining via Transformers
CheRMiT Team, iGEM at Berkeley
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch, Sponsor & Poster Session
2:00 PM - 2:10 PM
Water-Inducible Autolytic System for the Release of Intracellular Bioproducts
Cellyse Team, iGEM at Berkeley
2:10 PM - 2:20 PM
Bacterial Gene Drives and Restriction-Modification Evasion
James Larbalestier, UC Santa Cruz iGEM
2:20 PM - 2:30 PM
One-Step, Self-Clearing CRISPR-Based Gene Knockout System
Clonebots Deletion Team, iGEM at Berkeley
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM
Thioadenosine Modified tRNAs for Improved Peptide Bond Formation
Jessica Vance, Cate Lab at UC Berkeley
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Coffee Break ☕️
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Fireside Chat with Paul Westburg, Biotech C-level Executive
Paul Westburg
3:40 PM - 3:50 PM
Engineering TEM-1 beta-Lactamase with de novo Scaffolds
Hallucinating Scaffolds Team, iGEM at Berkeley
3:30 PM - 3:40 PM
de novo Design of Inhibitory Peptide for Protein-Protein Interactions
Peptide Design Team, iGEM at Berkeley
3:50 PM - 4:00 PM
CRISPR-Based One-Step Plasmid Assembly in vivo
CloneBots Assembly Team, iGEM at Berkeley
4:00 PM - 4:10 PM
SWNT-Mediated CRISPR Delivery and Editing Efficiency Screen in N. benthamiana
Chantel Martino, Landry Lab at UC Berkeley
4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Closing Remarks, Refreshment, and Networking Session