Conference: Breakout Sessions

Track: Exciting Science 2010

Date: Monday May 3, 2010

Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Location: McCormick Place, Chicago

Room: S405B

Description: Synthetic biology, the largest growing segment in biotechnology, is already enabling bio-based manufacturing of drugs, chemicals, materials and biofuels. An increasing number of companies in this field rely heavily on DNA construction technologies and focus on developing multi-gene pathways and de novo genomes. This session brings together people from industry and academia to discuss DNA construction technologies (oligo and gene synthesis, and pathway and genome assembly). The discussion will cover researchers’ needs for DNA construction technologies, current bottlenecks, future technical and commercial development perspectives, and key challenges inherent to large-scale DNA construction.

Program: Advanced

Objectives:
1. Gain an overview of emerging DNA construction technologies.

2. Learn the core technical challenge of DNA construction at each length scale.

3. Be able to identify potential commercial opportunities in DNA construction.