Agenda
08:00 am Registration/Breakfast
08:30 am Retreat Introduction and Future of BE – Chris Voigt
08:45 am Introduce new faculty member Jessica Stark & BE PhD 1st Years – Executive Committee
09:00 am Graduate Student Talks, announced by Christine Wiggins (Lauffenburger)
| Anna Romanov (Irvine/Bathe) | A DNA-scaffolded vaccine platform for programmable presentation of engineered HIV immunogens |
| Ellen Kan (Griffith/Kamm) | Engineering Microphysiological Systems to Investigate Vascularization in Endometriosis |
| Pablo Cárdenas R. (Niles) | A synthetic transcriptional control platform for malaria parasites |
09:30 am Morning Poster Session
10:30 am Keynote – Dr. Lisa Dyson, CEO, Air Protein
11:15 am Graduate Student Talks, announced by Owen Leddy (Bryson/White)
| Elijah Karvelis (Tidor) | Increasing enzyme activity by stabilizing reaction-promoting conformations |
| Brian Kang (Fraenkel) | Pooled, optical proteomic profiling platform to study Huntington’s Disease (HD) pathways |
| Itai Levin (Voigt/Coley) | Genetically-encoded reporter systems for remote sensing |
11:45 am Lunch
1:00 pm MIT Programs in Climate and “Other”, moderated by Jacquin Niles
| Renee Robins J-WAFS | Securing humankind’s vital resources |
| David Babson MIT Climate Grand Challenges | Accelerating Innovation to Address the Climate Crisis |
| Jeremy Gregory | The MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium |
| Hillary P. | MIT-CIA Research Programs |
1:40 pm Afternoon Poster Session (w/snacks)
3:30 pm Careers outside of Big Industry, moderated by Anders Hansen
| Anders Hansen | Applying to faculty jobs |
| Bryn Adams | Biotechnology Careers in the Army - Join the Army without really joining the Army |
| Tony Kulesa | Entrepreneurial Stories |
4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:20 pm BE Culture and Community, moderated by Abigail McShane (Ribbeck/Dedon)
| Sarah Duquette | BE REFS |
| Chiara Ricci-Tam | BE Communication Lab |
| Malik & Miles George | STEM Communication and Outreach |
| David S. Kong | How To Grow (Almost) Anything |
5:00 pm Guest Faculty Talks, moderated by Chris Voigt
| Domitilla Del Vecchio (MechE) | Analog epigenetic cell memory in mammalian cells |
| Cullen Buie (MechE) | Electric field based gene delivery strategies for applied microbiology and engineered cell therapies |
| Mary Gehring (Biology) | Epigenetic and synthetic approaches to clonal seed production |
5:30 pm TA/BATS Awards, Bevin Engelward, Photo, Cocktail Reception (w/food)
8:00 pm Adjournment