2024 GCE Conference Program
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Thursday – August 8
| 5:00 – 7:00 pm | Arrival & Registration |
| 7:00 – 8:00 pm | Dinner |
| 8:00 – 8:15 pm | Welcome Address |
| 8:15 – 9:15 pm | Keynote #1: Peter Schultz An Expanding Genetic Code |
Friday – August 9
| 8:00 am | Hot Breakfast Available |
| 9:00 – 10:35 pm | Session 1 (schedule as follows) |
| 9:00 – 9:25 am | Satpal Virdee, University of Dundee Expanding the ubiquitin system with engineered protein sensors |
| 9:25 – 9:50 am | Andrew Ellington, University of Texas at Austin, USA Engineering tRNA loading for genetic code modification |
| 9:50 – 10:15 am | Sebastian Greiss, University of Edinburgh Genetic code expansion in C. elegans and its application for the development of in vivo tools |
| 10:15 – 10:35 am | John Lueck, University of Rochester, USA Development of therapeutic suppressor tRNAs |
| 10:35 – 11:00 am | Group Photo & Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:45 pm | Session 2 (schedule as follows) |
| 11:00 – 11:25 am | Sharona Gordon, University of Washington, USA Real-time traffic: new optical tools for measuring exocytosis and endocytosis applied to TRPV1 ion channels |
| 11:25 – 11:50 am | Ivana Nikic Spiegel, Tübingen University, Germany Axonal injury: from advanced imaging to genetic code expansion-based tools for minimally invasive protein tagging |
| 11:50 – 12:15 pm | Tao Uttamapinant, VISTEC, Thailand Detection of proteoforms and cellular translation events with genetic code expansion |
| 12:15 – 12:35 pm | Richard Obexer, University of Manchester, UK Enantioselective Photoenzymes with Genetically Programmed Triplet Sensitisers |
| 12:35 – 12:45 pm | Akos Neyerges, Harvard Medical School, USA Synthetic Genomes and Genetic Codes |
| 12:45 – 2:30 pm | Lunch Tour of the Linus Pauling Nobel Prize Special Collections – Meet out front at 1 pm to walk over. Must RSVP in advance, only 15 slots available. |
| 2:30 – 4:15 pm | Session 3 (schedule as follows) |
| 2:30 – 2:55 pm | Marcello Marelli, AstraZeneca An unnatural partnership: Satisfying the functional needs and manufacturing wants of drug development |
| 2:55 – 3:20 pm | Feng Tian, Luxvitae Therapeutics Journey Toward Its Commercialization of the Expended Genetic Codon–an Ambrx Story |
| 3:20 – 3:30 pm | Erkin Kuru, Harvard Medical School, USA Harnessing the power of synthetic chemical biology to illuminate (and cure) disease |
| 3:30 – 4:15 pm | Poster Flash Talks (Evens) *If you were selected for a session talk, you won’t give a flash talk |
| 4:15 – 4:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 4:30 – 6:00 pm | Poster Session Drinks and appetizers beginning at 5:00 pm |
| 6:00 – 7:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:10 – 8:45 pm | Session 4 (schedule as follows) |
| 7:10 – 7:30 pm | Dan Groff, Sutro Biopharma Production of advanced therapeutics using non-natural amino acids |
| 7:30 – 8:30 pm | Keynote #2: Mike Jewett, Stanford University Transforming cell-free systems for synthetic biology |
Saturday – August 10
| 8:00 am | Hot Breakfast Available |
| 9:00 – 10:35 pm | Session 1 (schedule as follows) |
| 9:00 – 9:25 am | Tao Liu, Peking University, China A humanized genetic code expansion system for non-canonical amino acid controlled gene expression |
| 9:25 – 9:50 am | Irene Coin, Leipzig University, Germany GCE reveals structural and dynamic details of GPCR function from the live cell |
| 9:50 – 10:15 am | James Van Deventer, Tufts University, USA Pharmacophore-driven antibody discovery |
| 10:15 – 10:40 am | Shixian Lin, Zhejiang University, China New genetic code expansion strategies for probing the biological functions of protein PTMs |
| 10:40 – 11:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:45 pm | Session 2 (schedule as follows) |
| 11:15 – 11:40 am | Farren Isaacs, Yale School of Medicine, USA |
| 11:40 – 12:05 pm | Michelle Chang, UC Berkeley, USA |
| 12:05 – 12:25 pm | Rick Cooley, Oregon State University, USA Decoding the Dark Proteome: Innovations in Genetic Code Expansion for Phosphorylated Proteins |
| 12:25 – 12:45 pm | Ross Thyer, Rice University, USA Emulsion-based directed evolution platforms to engineer non-canonical amino acid biosynthesis |
| 12:45 – 2:00 pm | Lunch GCE Conference business meeting during lunch |
| 2:00 – 4:10 pm | Session 3 (schedule as follows) |
| 2:00 – 2:25 pm | Ali Deliz Liang, University of Zurich, Switzerland Enzyme engineering with genetic code expansion |
| 2:25 – 2:50 pm | Tina Boville, Aralez Bio |
| 2:50 – 3:10 pm | Cory Dunn, GRO Biosciences Disruption Activated Reporter Transcription, a Method for Recovery of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases That Promote Incorporation of NSAAs |
| 3:10 – 3:30 pm | Christine Koehler, Veraxa Biochemical innovations for expanding the therapeutics window of ADCs |
| 3:30 – 4:10 pm | Poster Flash Talks (Odds) *If you were selected for a session talk, you won’t give a flash talk |
| 4:15 – 4:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 4:30 – 6:00 pm | Poster Session Drinks and appetizers beginning at 5:00 pm |
| 6:00 – 7:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:10 – 8:45 pm | Session 4 (schedule as follows) Poster Prizes will be announces during the 1st 10 min |
| 7:10 – 7:20 pm | Yuda Chen, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Unleashing the Potential of Noncanonical Amino Acid Biosynthesis to Create Cells with Precision Tyrosine Sulfation |
| 7:20 – 7:30 pm | Anamika Singh, GCE4All Research Center, Oregon State University, USA Evaluating Ligase Feasibility for Targeted Protein Degradation in Living Systems with Genetic Code Expansion |
| 7:30 – 7:40 pm | Meghan Breen, Furman University, USA Developing GCE tools for Candida glabrata |
| 7:45 – 8:45 pm | Keynote #3: Alanna Schepartz, UC Berkeley, USA Broadening the concept of a genetically encoded material |
| 9:00 pm | Conference Ending Festivities At Ryan Mehl’s house – walking distance away. |