Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Venue: MaRS Centre

City: Toronto, Ontario

The Ontario Genomics Institute and Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) co-hosted a symposium entitled 'Engineering the Future - Synthetic Biology'. This one day symposium focused on advancements, opportunities and challenges in the field of synthetic biology. The event, held at the MaRS Centre in Toronto, drew an audience of more than 120 participants from across Ontario, Canada and the US, covering academic research institutions, government and industry.

Click below to access the following presentations:

• Genome synthesis and transplantation: Progress on construction of a synthetic bacterial cell
  Keynote presentation: Daniel Gibson, PhD, J. Craig Venter Institute
• Protein evolution of a hyperthermophilic archeon RNase H2 enzyme
  Scott Rose, PhD, Integrated DNA Technologies
• Training for the future - the iGEM way
  Mads Kaern, PhD, University of Ottawa

The following presentations were also given at the symposium. Due to the fact that confidential information was presented during these talks, slide presentations are currently unavailable:

• Synthetic promoters and gene synthesis using short oligos
  Robert Holt, PhD, British Columbia Cancer Agency and Simon Fraser University
• Towards construction of synthetic ribosomes: Cell-free integration of rRNA synthesis, ribosome self-assembly, and protein synthesis
  Michael Jewett, PhD, Northwestern University
• Second generation synthetic promoters that respond to developmental signaling
  Raymond MacDonald, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• Progress in engineering synthetic cellulosomes in vivo
  Vincent Martin, PhD, Concordia University
• Improved microbial synthesis of glucaric acid using synthetic biology devices
  Kristala Jones Prather, PhD, MIT

The symposium was chaired by Dr. Elizabeth Edwards, PhD, University of Toronto

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