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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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