08:30-09:00 

Gathering, Registration and Coffee

09:00-09:10

Welcome greeting – Lital Alfonta, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Session 1. Chair:  Lital Alfonta, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

09:10-09:40

Nediljko Budisa, University of Manitoba, Canada
Top-down approach to synthetic life through directed evolution of synthetic bacterial cells with alternative genetic codes

09:40-10:10

Edward Lemke, Gutenberg University, Meinz, Germany
Tools to Decoding Molecular Plasticity in the Dark Proteome

10:10-10:40

Coffee Break

Session 2. Chair:  Tamir Tuller, Tel-Aviv University

10:40-11:10

Barbara Di-Ventura, University of Freiburg, Germany
Inteins as molecular tools for synthetic biology

11:10-11:40

Stephen Wallace, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Engineered Microorganisms for Sustainable Chemical Synthesis

11:40-12:10

Industrial Panel Discussions: Moderator: Dr. Galit Mazooz-Perlmuter, BGN – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

12:10-14:00

Lunch break and poster session. 

Session 3. Chair:  Lior Nissim,  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

14:00 – 14:30 

Wilfried Weber, INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken, Germany
Molecular Optogenetics – Programming Cells and Materials with Light

14:30-15:00

Lianet Noda-Garcia, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
Engineering and Optimizing Plastic Biodegradation in Bacteria

15:00-15:30

Basile Wicky, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

De novo interactomes for biomolecular computations

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

Session 4. Chair:  Yuval Dorfan, HIT – Holon Institute of Technology

16:00-16:30 

Ramez Daniel, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 

Engineering Biology: Fundamentals and Applications

16:30-17:00 

Karen Polizzi, Imperial College, UK
Integrating Living Analytics into Biological Manufacturing Processes

17:00-17:30

Ariel Lindner, Université de Paris – INSERM, CRI, Paris, France

In vivo synthetic RNA-based liquid-liquid phase separation

17:30-18:00

Best Poster Award and Concluding Remarks – Miriam Amiram, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev