Organized by:

George Guo-Qiang Chen, Tsinghua University, China

Sang Yup Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea

Eriko Takano, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Lingchong You, Duke University, USA  

Major Topics:

1. Prokaryotic Genome Engineering

2. Genome Engineering of Eukaryotic Systems

3. Designing Cellular Circuits

4. Metabolic Engineering for Chemicals, Fuels and Materials

5. Emerging tools of Synthetic Biology

Keynote Speakers:

Victor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, SPAIN

Lingchong You, Duke University, USA

Invited Speakers:

Gabor Balazsi, Stony Brook University, USA

Matthew Bennett, Rice University, USA

Yizhi Patrick Cai, University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM

Matthew Chang, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE

George Guo-Qiang Chen, Tsinghua University, CHINA

Junbiao Dai, Tsinghua University, CHINA

Charles Gersbach, Duke University, USA

Ji-Sook Hahn, Seoul National University, SOUTH KOREA

Ki Jun Jeong, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, SOUTH KOREA

Sang Yup Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, SOUTH KOREA

Hao Song, Tianjin University, CHINA

Beatrix Suess, Technische Universität Darmstadt, GERMANY

Jeffrey Tabor, Rice University, USA

Eriko Takano, University of Manchester, UK

Cheemeng Tan, University of California, Davis, USA

Martin Warren, University of Kent, UNITED KINGDOM

Rikiya Watanabe, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN

Leor Weinberger, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Xiaoxia Xia, Shanghai Jiaotong University, CHINA

Zhen Xie, Tsinghua University, CHINA

Xueli Zhang, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, CHINA

Hui Zhou, Ginkgo Bioworks, USA