Mission : To showcase the latest achievements and research progress in the field of Biosystems Design and Synthetic Biology , to foster communication and interdisciplinary collaboration among scientists, to promote interactions between academia and industry, and to facilitate graduate student and postdoc training.
Organizers : The conference is organized by BioDesign Research (BDR), a Science Partner Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Conveners : The joint conveners are Dr. Alfonso Jaramillo (the University of Warwick) and Dr. Xiaohan Yang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA).
Dates and time : The conference will be held from December 6 th - 17 th with three hours each weekday from 11 AM - 2 PM, US Eastern Standard Time (8 AM - 11 AM US Pacific Standard Time/4 PM - 7PM London/0 AM - 3AM Beijing). You can check your local time on this website: www.worldtimebuddy.com/ . The organizers regret that the time may not be best for all of you, but registered attendees can replay recorded videos any time after the talks for one year.
Format : The conference consists of three parts: 1) virtual online presentations via Zoom (featuring plenary and keynote talks), 2) “satellite” presentations selected from submitted abstracts, and 3) poster presentations.
The entire conference will be recorded and the recorded videos will be available for replay for one year with the permission of corresponding speakers.
1. Date
December 6 th to 17 th , 2021
Program: www.biodesign-conference.com/2021/program.php
2. Registration
Conference website: www.biodesign-conference.com/2021/registration.php
The conference is free with registration.
3. Conference Themes
Biodesign theories and principles
Biodesign methods and tools
Biodesign engineering at molecular, pathway, cellular, tissue, and organism levels
Biodesign applications
Biodesign security and ethics
4. Poster Award
First prize $300 × 2
Second prize $200 × 4
Third prize $100 × 6
Poster submission: www.biodesign-conference.com/2021/poster.php
Submission deadline: November 30 th , 2021
5. Abstract submission
The designated committee will select top abstracts for oral presentations as pre-recorded videos. The video collection will be a “satellite session” for each online plenary session. The video collection will be available for replay for registered attendees. Authors of other abstracts are encouraged to do a poster presentation.
Abstract submission: www.biodesign-conference.com/2021/abstract3.php
Selecting for oral presentations deadline: November 20 th , 2021
6. Speakers （ updating ）
Rodolphe Barrangou, North Carolina State University, USA
Anke Becker, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany
Ron Breaker, Yale University, USA
Yvonne Y. Chen, University of California, USA
Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, USA
Tara L. Deans, University of Utah, USA
Douglas Densmore, Boston University, USA
Diane DiEuliis, National Defense University, USA
José R. Dinneny, Stanford University, USA
Tom Ellis, Imperial College London, UK
Michael Elowitz, California Institute of Technology, USA
Gigi Kwik Gronvall, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Terry Hwa, University of California San Diego, USA
Mark Isalan, Imperial College London, UK
Alfonso Jaramillo, University of Warwick, UK
Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
David Liu, Harvard University, USA
Victor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Spain
Susanna Manrubia, Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, Spain
Nicola Patron, The Earlham Institute, UK
Rafael Sanjuan, University of Valencia, Spain
Alison Smith, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
Ricard Sole, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Beatrix Suess, Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany
Xiaohan Yang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Matias Zurbriggen, Institute of Synthetic Biology/Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
7. Sponsor
Sponsorship: www.biodesign-conference.com/2021/sponsor.php
8. Contact information