The official MPP-Boston Workshop website is at mpp2016.strikingly.com. This page serves as an archive of the schedule.
Special thanks to the organizing committee: Christina Chen, Jodi Saia, William Shih, and Peng Yin.
Friday December 9, 2016
Location: Martin Conference Center (3rd Floor Rotunda); 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115
| Time | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30 AM | Registration | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM | William Shih/Peng Yin | Welcome and Overview |
| SESSION 1 | Chair: William Shih | |
| 8:40 AM | Vinny Manoharan | Invited Talk: Responsive and dynamic DNA-grafted colloidal particles |
| 9:10 AM | Lulu Qian | A Cargo-sorting DNA Robot |
| 9:30 AM | Nick Porubsky | Constrained Multistate Sequence Design for Nucleic Acid Reaction Pathway Engineering A Rogues Gallery of DNA Self-Assembly Algorithms |
| 9:50 AM | Dave Doty | A Rogues Gallery of DNA Self-Assembly Algorithms |
| 10:10 AM | Coffee Break | Catered |
| SESSION 2 | Chair: Richard Murray | |
| 10:35 AM | Mary Dunlop | Invited Talk: Dynamics, Feedback, and Transient Antibiotic Resistance in Single Cells |
| 11:05 AM | Thomas Schaus | ‘APR’ technology continuously generates DNA records of molecular interaction |
| 11:25 AM | Jocelyn Kishi | Dynamic Synthesis through Primer Exchange Reaction Cascades |
| 11:45 PM | Siddharth Jain | Decoding the Past |
| 12:05 PM | Lunch | Catered |
| SESSION 3 | Chair: William Shih | |
| 1:10 PM | Michael Brenner | Invited Talk: Towards Dyson Metabolisms |
| 1:40 PM | Yaoyu Yang | Synthetic bistability and antibiotic resistance memory in S. cerevisiae |
| 2:00 PM | Randolph Lopez | A Molecular Classifier for Gene Expression Diagnostics |
| 2:20 PM | Bhavik Nathwani | High-throughput biochemistry using Multiplexed Mechanochemistry Assay |
| 2:40 PM | Snack Break | Catered |
| SESSION 4 | Chair: Peng Yin | |
| 3:10 PM | Johan Paulsson | Invited Talk: The role of fluctuations in individual cells |
| 3:40 PM | Sifang Chen | Programmable DNA Pattern Formation |
| 4:00 PM | Gourab Chatterjee | Modular Construction of Molecular Circuits using Spatial Organization |
| 4:30 PM | Move en masse to the Wyss Institute (3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115) | |
| 5:00 PM | Last name B—L | Poster Session I – Wyss Institute (5th floor CLSB, Room 521), catered |
| Evening | Dinner on your own |
Saturday December 10, 2016
Martin Conference Center (3rd Floor Rotunda)
| Time | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
| SESSION 5 | Chair: Erik Winfree | |
| 8:30 AM | Doug Densmore | Invited Talk: Living Computing Project |
| 9:00 AM | Luvena Ong | Expanding the unique addressability of 3D DNA nanostructures |
| 9:20 AM | Philip Petersen | Fractal assembly of micron-scale uniquely-addressable DNA origami arrays |
| 9:40 AM | Coffee Break | Catered |
| SESSION 6 | Chair: Lulu Qian | |
| 10:10 AM | Luhan Yang | Invited Talk: Rewrite the pig genome for xenotransplantation |
| 10:40 AM | Elisha Krieg | Selective Sequestration and Scalable Production of Long Single-Stranded DNA |
| 11:00 AM | Cody Geary | Computer Aided Design of RNA Origami Structures |
| 11:20 PM | Anandh Swaminathan | A Python toolbox for simulation and parameter inference in synthetic biology |
| 11:40 AM | Lunch | Catered |
| SESSION 7 | Chair: Deborah Fygenson | |
| 1:00 PM | Angela Belcher | Invited Talk: M13 Phage as a biological toolkit for applications in energy and medicine |
| 1:30 PM | Vipul Singhal | Data Driven Reduction of Extract to Extract Variability in Cell Free Systems |
| 1:50 PM | Adam Cohen | Invited Talk: Engineering electrically excitable tissues |
| 2:20 PM | Erik Winfree | Stochastic Local Search and Chemical Reaction Networks |
| 2:40 PM | Move en masse to the Wyss Institute | |
| 3:00 PM | Last name N—Z | Poster Session II – Wyss Institute (5th floor CLSB, Room 521), catered |
| 4:45 PM | Move to the Martin Conference Center | |
| 5:00 PM | Dinner | Catered |
Sunday December 11, 2016
Trainee Workshop – Martin Conference Center (3rd Floor Rotunda)
| Time | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | Catered |
| 10:00 AM | Welcome Remarks | Science Speed Dating: talk about your science in pairs to 10 people, 5 min per pair |
| 11:00 AM | Small Group Project #1 | Using molecular programming, design a system that solves an important societal challenge. Groups of 7, 20 min design, 3 min presentation |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | Catered |
| 1:00 PM | Small Group Discussion | Discuss talks from main MPP event |
| 2:00 PM | Small Group Project #2 | Use molecular programming to design a system that expands our knowledge of the universe. Groups of 7, 20 min design, 3 min presentation |
| 3:00 PM | Round Table & Closing Remarks | Whole group on future of molecular programming |
| 4:00 PM+ | Boston excursion on your own |
