SATURDAY MORNING
(10/22/2016)
Room 1200 Molecular Plant Science Building
| 8:30 | Continental breakfast, Atrium, Molecular Plant Sciences Building |
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
| 9:00 | Emily Wrenbeck, Chemical Engineering Graduate Program, MSU. |
| 9:15 | Sean Cutler, Department of Plant Cell Biology and Chemistry, UC Riverside. “ABA Receptors and Plant Drought Tolerance.” |
| 9:50 | Brian Pfleger, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin. “Constructing Synthetic Biology Toolboxes for Non-Model Organisms.” |
| 10:25 | Ryan Philippe, Director, Research and Development, ManusBio. “Engineering a Plant Biosynthetic Pathway for Sustainable Production of a Natural Sweetener.” |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
MUTUALISM AND PATHOGENICITY
| 11:10 | Philip Poole, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford-UK. “Microbial Colonisation of the Rhizosphere.” |
| 11:45 | Ulrich Mueller, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin. “Optimization of Artificial Selection on Rhizosphere Microbiomes of Plants; Applications for Greenhouse and Subsistence Farming.” |
| 12:20 | Closing Comments |
