Joint with: Genetic Engineering for a Sustainable Future
Future of Agriculture for Sustainability

Jan 20–23, 2025 | Keystone Resort, Keystone, CO, United States
Scientific Organizers: Christopher Voigt, Pamela A. Silver and Alvin Tamsir

  In Person
  On Demand

Jan 20–23, 2025 | Keystone Resort, Keystone, CO, United States
Scientific Organizers: Christopher Voigt, Pamela A. Silver and Alvin Tamsir

Available Formats:   = In Person     = On Demand
Monday, January 20, 2025
Arrival and Registration
4:00–8:00 PM
 Longs Peak Foyer
Welcome Mixer
6:00–8:00 PM
 Longs Peak Foyer
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Breakfast
7:00–8:00 AM
 Quandary Peaks
Welcome and Keynote Address (Joint)
8:00–9:30 AM
 Grays Peak
Elizabeth Sattely, Stanford University
Engineering Plant Chemistry for Plant and Human Health
Anne E. Osbourn, John Innes Centre
Engineering Synthetic Pathways Towards Natural Products
Coffee Break
9:30–9:50 AM
 Longs Peak Foyer
Engineering Microbial-Plant Interactions (Joint)
9:50–11:35 AM
 Grays Peak
Jean-Michel Ane, University of Wisconsin - Madison
The Complex Communications Between Plants and their Microbiota
Poornima Parameswaran, Trace Genomics
Using DNA Mapping to Activate Soil's Hidden Potential
Christopher Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tracking Engineered Microbiomes from Space and Over Decades
Gozde S Demirer, Caltech
Short Talk: Sustainable Agriculture Through Persistent Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria
Poster Setup
11:15–1:00 PM
 Quandary Peaks
On Own for Lunch
11:15–2:30 PM
Poster Viewing
1:00–10:00 PM
 Quandary Peaks
Symposia Spotlight 1: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions
2:30–4:30 PM
 Grays Peak
Maria Florencia Ercoli, University of California Davis
Engineering Rice Root System Architecture and Exudate Composition to Optimize Rhizosphere Interactions.
Conor J McClune, Stanford University
Multiplexed Perturbation of Yew Reveals Cryptic Proteins that Enable a Total Biosynthesis of Taxol Precursors
Motoaki Seki, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Development of EGAO (Ethanol-Based Global Agricultural Optimization) Technology and its Application for the Sustainable Agriculture
Joshua S Clem, University of Maryland, College Park
A Novel Type I-F CRISPR System Confers Kilobase-scale Genomic Deletions at GC-rich PAMs in Plants
Jonathan Conway, Princeton University
Engineering Auxin-Mediated Plant-Microbe Interactions for Sustainable Agriculture
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
 Longs Peak Foyer
Preparing for Climate Change with Plant Engineering (Joint)
5:00–7:00 PM
 Grays Peak
Pamela C Ronald, University of California, Davis
Engineering Rice for Climate Change
Jenn Brophy, Stanford University
Genetic Circuits to Control Root Development
June I. Medford, Colorado State University
Towards Plants to Address Food, Water and Climate Needs
Arjun Khakhar, Colorado State University
Short Talk: Using Synthetic Biology to Open New Avenues for Sustainable Agriculture
Subah Soni, University of California, Davis
Short Talk: Engineering Rice Root Exudation for Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Social Hour with Lite Bites
7:00–8:00 PM
 Quandary Peaks
Poster Session 1
7:30–10:00 PM
 Quandary Peaks
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Breakfast
7:00–8:00 AM
 Quandary Peaks
Defeating Haber-Bosch; Low Energy Routes to Fertilizer (Joint)
8:00–11:00 AM
 Grays Peak
Giles E.D. Oldroyd, University of Cambridge
Engineering Nitrogen Fixing Cereal Crops
Alvin Tamsir, Pivot Bio
Deployment of Bacteria that Deliver Fixed Nitrogen to Cereals
Cathie Martin, John Innes Centre
Vertical Farming and Engineering for Enhanced Plant Nutrition
Haven Baker, Pairwise Plants
Tools for Plant Engineering to Accelerate Plant-based Production Systems
Solène LY Moulin, Stanford School of Medicine
Short Talk: Cell Evolution of Nitrogen-Fixing Endosymbioses: A Blueprint for Synthetic Self-Fertilizing Plants
Coffee Break
9:00–9:20 AM
 Longs Peak Foyer
Poster Setup
11:00–1:00 PM
 Quandary Peaks
On Own for Lunch
11:00–1:30 PM
Poster Viewing
1:00–10:00 PM
 Quandary Peaks
Panel Discussion: Starting Plant Work without Prior Experience
1:30–3:15 PM
 Grays Peak
Christopher Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jenn Brophy, Stanford University
Elizabeth Sattely, Stanford University
Alvin Tamsir, Pivot Bio
Career Roundtable (Joint)
3:30–4:30 PM
 Grays Peak
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
 Longs Peak Foyer
Thinking Plants, Programmed to Respond to their Environment
5:00–7:00 PM
 Grays Peak
Mauricio S Antunes, University of North Texas
Rewiring Plant Metabolism with Information Processing Circuits
Neal Stewart, University of Tennessee
Rapid in vivo Analysis of Synthetic Promoters for Plant Pathogen Phytosensing
Sean Cutler, University of California, Riverside
Reprogramming ABA Receptors for New Plant Functions
Alexandra M Shigenaga, University of California, Davis
Short Talk: Elucidating the Role of An Evolutionarily Conserved Peptide Signaling Pathway in Growth and Defense Processes
Sophia A Tomatz, University of California, Berkeley
Short Talk: Engineering Lipid-Based Nanoparticles to Deliver Small Rnas to Plant Systems
Social Hour with Lite Bites
7:00–8:00 PM
 Quandary Peaks
Poster Session 2
7:30–10:00 PM
 Quandary Peaks
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Breakfast
7:00–8:00 AM
 Quandary Peaks
Massively Reengineered Plant Genetics
8:00–11:00 AM
 Grays Peak
Caixia Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Targeted Genome Engineering Tools and their Applications in Crop Breeding
Daniel F Voytas, University of Minnesota
Plant gene editing at scale using non-transgenic approaches
Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Engineering Plant Organellar Genomes
Martin Jonikas, Princeton University
Structure, Biogenesis, and Engineering of the Pyrenoid
Brenden Barco, Syngenta Crop Protection
Short Talk: Advances in LbCas12a-mediated Genome Editing in High Value Crops
Abraham Steinberger, University of Minnesota
Short Talk: Towards Heritable, Tissue Culture-Free Gene Editing of Barley and Wheat Using a Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus Vector
Coffee Break
9:00–9:20 AM
 Longs Peak Foyer
On Own for Lunch
11:00–2:30 PM
Symposia Spotlight 2: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions
2:30–4:30 PM
 Grays Peak
Tahmina Islam, University of Dhaka
Development of Low Erucic Acid Producing Local Mustard Variety (Brassica Rapa L.) Through Genome Editing
Mathew G Lewsey, La Trobe University
Establishment of Single-Cell Transcriptional States During Seed Germination
Sangeetha Ramesh, University of California Davis
Understanding Bacterial Immunogenic Peptide Features That Facilitate Host Recognition During Rice-Xoo Interactions
Sakiko Okumoto, Texas A&M AgriLIfe research
Reducing N2O Emission Through Biological Nitrification Inhibition in Sorghum
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
 Longs Peak Foyer
Advanced Insect Control
5:00–6:30 PM
 Grays Peak
Jeffrey E. Barrick, University of Texas at Austin
Protecting Bees Through Engineering Their Microbiome
Pedro Coelho, Provivi Inc.
Directed Evolution of Enzymes to Produce Insect-Control Hormones
Max Scott, NC State University
Genetic biocontrol of a global invasive fruit fly
Closing Keynote Address
6:30–7:15 PM
 Grays Peak
Mary A. Gehring, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Engineering Plant Reproduction
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers)
7:15–7:30 PM
 Grays Peak
Social Hour with Lite Bites
7:30–8:30 PM
 Quandary Peaks
Trivia
8:00–9:00 PM
 Longs Peak
Cash Bar
8:00–9:00 PM
 Quandary Peaks
Friday, January 24, 2025
Departure
8:00–8:00 AM

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