Saturday, October 21 |
7:30-8:30 am |
Breakfast
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8:30-8:45 am |
Opening remarks
Susan Martinis
Interim Vice Chancellor for Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Huimin Zhao
Steven L. Miller Chair, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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8:45-9:20 am |
Session 1 talks: Spiegelman’s major scientific contributions
Susan Martinis, Chair
Richard Axel
"Sol Spiegelman: From Molecules to Mind"
Nobel Laureate
University Professor, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, of Neuroscience, and of Pathology
Columbia University
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9:20-9:55 am |
Gerald Joyce "Reconstructing RNA-based Life: RNA-Catalyzed Polymerization and Replication of RNA"
Professor
Jack H. Skirball Center for Chemical Biology and Proteomics
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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9:55-10:30 am |
Leroy Hood
"Systems Medicine, Big Data and Scientific Wellness: Transforming Healthcare—A Personal View"
President and Co-founder
Institute for Systems Biology
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10:30-11:00 am |
Break |
11:00-11:30 am |
Session 2 talks: In vitro protein evolution
Rachel Whitaker, Chair
David Liu "Protein Evolution and Engineering to Enable Biotechnology, Genome Editing, and Novel Therapeutics"
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
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11:30-12:00 pm |
Susan Martinis
"Re-purposing of Ancient Protein Synthesis Enzymes and RNAs for Cell Signaling"
Department of Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Interim Director, Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Interim Vice Chancellor for Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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12:00-1:00 pm |
Lunch |
1:00-1:30 pm |
Session 3 talks: In vitro nucleic acid evolution
Yi Lu, Chair
Jack Szostak "The Origin of Cellular Life"
Nobel Laureate
Professor of Genetics, and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard Medical School
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1:30-2:00 pm |
Larry Gold
"From Sol Spiegelman to modern SELEX (with help from Harold B. White III)"
Chairman and Founder, SomaLogic
Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado Boulder
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2:00-2:30 pm |
Joan Steitz "Noncoding RNAs of Viral and Cellular Origin: Insights into Evolution"
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale School of Medicine
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2:30-3:00 pm |
Break |
3:00-3:30 pm |
Session 4 talks: Design and evolution at the genome and microbial community scale
Olgica Milenkovic, Chair
Huimin Zhao
"Genome-scale Engineering: A New Frontier in Synthetic Biology"
Steven L. Miller Chair, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Biosystems Design Research Theme Leader, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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3:30-4:00 pm |
Feng Zhang "Harnessing CRISPR-Cas Systems for Diverse Biological Applications"
James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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4:00-4:30 pm |
Rachel Whitaker "CRISPR-Cas Mediated Host-Virus Co-evolution"
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Infection Genomics for One Health Research Theme Leader, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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