Workshop

Molecular Programming Project 2016 Annual Workshop

January 15-18, 2016 — Seattle, WA

Friday January 15, 2016

7:00PM	Reception (appetizers, desserts, and drinks)	At the Living Computer Museum.

Saturday January 16, 2016 (Walker Ames Room at UW)

8:00AM	Registration / Coffee (Note: no breakfast)
8:50AM	Eric Klavins	Welcome and Overview
9:00AM Winfree	Rebecca Schulman	Invited Talk: Point-to-Point Assembly of DNA Nanotubes
9:40AM	Siddharth Jain	Duplication Correcting Codes for DNA Storage
10:00AM	Nandhini Ponnuswamy	Oligolysine protects DNA nanostructures from in vivo threats
10:20AM	Coffee Break
10:40AM Rothemund	Carlos Castro	Invited Talk: Programming DNA origami dynamics
11:20AM	Harry Choi	Molecular Instruments
11:40AM	David Younger	Expanding Synthetic Cell-Cell Communication: Inspiration from the Immune System
12:00PM	Lunch	Catered
1:20PM Seelig	James Carothers	Invited Talk: Engineering RNA devices through time-resolved design
2:00PM	Chris Thachuk	Fast and leakless DNA strand displacement cascades
2:20PM	Parsa Nafisi	Toward Scalable Production of Highly Custom Single-Stranded DNA
2:40PM	Coffee Break
3:00PM Douglas	Anu Thubagere	Compiler-aided systematic construction of large-scale DNA strand displacement circuits using unpurified components
3:20PM	Kevin Cherry	Scaling up molecular pattern recognition with DNA-based winner-take-all neural networks
3:40PM Bruck	Poster presenters A-L	Lightning Talks I : One minute each!
4:00PM	Poster presenters A-L	Poster Session I (Kane Hall, 2nd floor)
Evening	Dinner on your own

Sunday January 17, 2016 (Walker Ames Room at UW)

8:30AM	Coffee (Note: no breakfast)
9:00AM Shih	David Baker	Invited Talk: Design of protein structures, functions and assemblies
9:40AM	Erik Winfree	Domain-level and sequence-level simulation of interacting DNA molecules
10:00AM	Miles Gander	Robust digital logic circuits in eukaryotic cells with CRISPR/dCas9 NOR gates
10:20AM	Coffee Break
10:40AM Murray	Thomas Ouldridge	Invited Talk: Information and thermodynamics in biochemical networks
11:20AM	William Shih	DNA origami capsules for future therapeutics
11:40AM	Jongmin Kim	Ribocomputers for in vivo logic computation
12:00PM	Lunch	Catered
1:20PM Qian	David Soloveichik	Invited Talk: Lower Bounds on Computation Time in Chemical Reaction Networks
2:00PM	Ashwin Gopinath	Rationally controlling the orientation of molecules on a surface
2:20PM	Alex Rosenberg	Learning models of gene regulation from synthetic sequences
2:40PM	Coffee Break
3:00PM Seelig	William Shih, Lulu Qian, Joseph Berleant, and Eric Klavins	Panel on Education in Molecular Programming
3:40PM Bruck	Poster presenters M-Z	Lightning Talks II : One minute each!
4:00PM	Poster presenters M-Z	Poster Session II (Kane Hall, 2nd floor)
6:00PM	Dinner at the UW Club

Monday January 18, 2016 (Walker Ames Room)

8:30AM	Coffee (Note: no breakfast)
9:00AM Murray	Julius Lucks	Invited Talk: Rapidly uncovering cellular RNA structure/function design principles with SHAPE-Seq
9:40AM	Ben Groves	Rewiring MAP kinases in yeast to regulate novel targets
10:00AM	Farzad Farnoud	Stochastic Models for DNA Tandem Duplication
10:20AM	Coffee Break
10:40AM Klavins	Domitilla Del Vecchio	Invited Talk: Cellular Economy and Emergent Interaction Networks in Gene Circuits
11:20AM	Jie Shen	Nanolithography with DNA Brick Crystals
11:40AM	Richard Murray	Rapid cell-free forward engineering of novel genetic ring oscillators
12:00PM	Adjourn

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