Events – UCI Center for Synthetic Biology

UCI Synthetic Biology Symposium, May 2024

Thank you all for attending the inaugural Annual Symposium for the Center for Synthetic Biology on May 31st, 2024. We greatly appreciate the 12 outstanding scientists who shared their research with our audience. We look forward to seeing you all again next year.

Director of the Center for Synthetic Biology, Prof. Chang Liu, UCI, gave Introduction remarks.

“Not quite alive: Synthetic protocells and phages.” by Prof. Irene Chen, UCLA

“RNA-catalyzed Evolution of Catalytic RNA.” by Dr. David Horning, Salk Institute

“DNA Liquids.” by Prof. Omar Saleh, UCSB

“Building RNA Condensates with Short Nanostructured Motifs.” by Prof. Elisa Franco, UCLA

“DNA as sequence-encoded templates for atomically precise nanocluster fluorophores.” by Prof. Stacy Copp, UCI

“Engineering the redox chemistry of life.” by Prof. Han Li, UCI

“New Strategies for Stereoselective Radical Biocatalysis.” by Prof. Yang Yang, UCSB

“Engineering Longevity: Computationally-guided Reprogramming of Single-cell aging.” by Prof. Nan Hao, UCSD

“Nanotechnology-enabled spray induced gene silencing for crop protection.” by Prof. Hailing Jin, UCR

“Merging mammalian synthetic biology with diffusion biophysics to create new genetic tools for deep-tissue imaging.” by Prof. Arnab Mukherjee

“Synthetic Circuits in Multicellular Systems/” by Prof. Michael B. Elowitz, Caltech

We had a great discussion following the full-day event.

Professor Fangyuan Ding helped organize the symposium and also gave a talk titled “Revealing Competitive Hybridization Dynamics at the Single Molecule Level.”