Program
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- Michael Firgens, Founder MF Biotech, Berlin, DE
- Melanie Fessel, Principal of TerreformX Europe and Professor at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, DE
- Johann Bauerfeind, Burg-Halle Biolab & Co-Founder Solaga, Berlin, DE
- Caroline Kurtz, CDO Synlogic Therapeutics, Cambridge, US
- Scott Walper, Science Director, US Office of Naval Research Global; London, GB
- Martyn Dade-Robertson, Professor for Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, GB
EIC ELMs Portfolio Symposium
4th Int. ELMs conference participants are very welcome to join!
8:25
Welcome and Introduction
Wilfried Weber (Scientific Director of INM) and
Orsolya Symmons (EIC Health Biotech Programme Manager)
8:35 Keynote
Engineered living materials: options for agency
Jamie Davies; University of Edinburgh, GB
9:05
Microbially-grown living therapeutic and living regenerative materials
Marie -Eve Aubin; Delft University of Technology, NL
and Tom Ellis; Imperial College London, GB
9:25
Towards ELMs for the built environment – opportunities, challenges and applications
Phil Ayres; Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation, Kopenhagen, DK
(Fungateria Project)
9:45
3D Bioprinting as a Tool for Developing Engineered Living Materials and Extending the Concept to Mycelium-Based Bioinks
Achim Weber; Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB, DE
(LoopOfFun Project)
10:05
Coffee Break
10:20
3D printed symbiotic materials for living tissues manufacturing
Laura Martinelli; IN society, IT
and Massimo Vassalli; James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, GB
(PRISM-LT Project)
10:40
Progress on making a human Mini-Heart
Jeroen Leijten; University of Twente, Enschede, NL
(BioRobot-Miniheart Project)
11:00
Supervised Morphogenesis: Engineering stem cell derived embryo models
Stefan Krauss; Oslo University Hospital, NO
(SUMO Project)
11:20
Engineering advanced tissue models from live and artificial cells
Oliver Castell; Cardiff University, GB
(BioHhOst Project)
11:40 Keynote
Living Materials Programmed by Life
Chao Zhong; Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, CN
12:10
Closing remarks and Group Photo
Wilfried Weber and
Barbara Gerratana (EIC Pathfinder Programme Coordination Manager)
12:15
Lunch on-site
12:50
Welcome by the Organizers
SESSION 1: LIVING THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS
Chair: Aránzazu del Campo
13:00
Microbially-driven Materials Manufacture and Responsiveness
Neel S. Joshi; Northeastern University, Boston, US
13:30
Engineering Cyborg Cells as Dynamic Micromachines
Cheemeng Tan; UC Davis, US
14:00
Development and Application of Microbial Therapeutics against Viral Infections
Irina Spacova; University of Antwerp, BE
14:15
Living Therapeutic Skin: A Responsive Engineered Living Material for Skin Infection Detection
Koray Malci; Imperial College London, GB
14:30
Coffee Break
14:45
Harnessing Probiotic Lactobacillus for Recombinant Protein Secretion from Living Therapeutic Materials (LTMs)
Varun Sai Tadimarri+Marc Blanch Asensio; INM, Saarbrücken, DE
15:00
Bacteria-based Materials in Cell Engineering
Manuel Salmerón-Sanchez; University of Glasgow, GB
15:30
Self-lubricating Living Contact Lens
Lara Luana Teruel Enrico; INM, Saarbrücken, DE
15:45
Synthetic Biology as a New Tool in Targeted Therapies: from Nanotechnology to Artificial Cells
Avi Schroeder; Technion, Haifa, IL
16:15
A Living Bacterial Patch for Topical Application
Louise Dupont; Université catholique de Louvain, BE
16:30
Coffee Break
SESSION 2: MICROBES IN CONFINEMENT
Chair: Aránzazu del Campo
17:00
Emergent Functions of Bacterial Biofilms
Knut Drescher; Basel University, CH
17:30
Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy to Understand the Interactions between Bacteria and Materials
Cristina Flors; IMDEA Nanoscience, Madrid, ES
17:45
Geometry and Mechanics of Bacterial Microcolonies
Luca Giomi; Leiden University, NL
18:15 – 19:30
POSTER SESSION with Fingerfood
SESSION 2: MICROBES IN CONFINEMENT (contd.)
Chair: Wilfried Weber
9:00
Getting Cells into Engineered Living Materials and Keeping them Alive
Christopher J. Hernandez; UC San Francisco, US
9:30
How Mechanical Forces Shape the Structure and Dynamics of Bacterial Biofilms
Isabelle Wielert; University of Cologne, DE
9:45
Molecular Assembly of Living Materials
Seunghyun Sim; University of California, Irvine, US
10:15
Coffee Break
SESSION 3: ELM THROUGH CO-CULTURES
Chair: Thorsten Mascher
10:30
Synthesis of Artificial Cells and Engineering of Living Cells by Biocatalytic Radical Polymerizations
Nico Bruns; Technical University of Darmstadt, DE
11:00
Fabrication of Self-Dyeing Bacterial Cellulose Leather through a One-Pot Co-Culturing Approach
Katie Gilmour; Northumbria University, GB
11:15
Bioprinting Functional Living Materials based on Granular Hydrogels
Ziyi Yu; Nanjing Tech University, CN
11:45
Fabrication of Living Materials by Programmed Bacteria
Zhoujun Dai; SIAT, Shenzhen, CN
12:15
Engineering Layered Mixed-Trophy Microbial Consortia in Hydrogel Scaffolds to Mimic and Analyze Metabolic State in Microbial Mats
Christian Danneberg; University Leipzig, DE
12:30
Lunch Break
SESSION 4: ENHANCED FUNCTIONS WITH ELM
Chair: Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam
13:30
Using Synthetic Biology to Engineer Living Electronics across Scales
Joshua Atkinson; Princeton University, US
14:00
Engineering Bacteria to Grow into and Communicate with Materials
Caroline Ajo-Franklin; Rice University, Houston, US
14:30
Bacterially Grown Materials with Dormant Programmable Functionality
Franka van der Linden; Delft University of Technology, NL
14:45
Improving Control of Biomineralization in Engineered Living Materials
Chelsea Heveran; State University, Montana, US
15:15
User-friendly ELM Biosensors to Monitor Agroindustrial Processes
Lorenzo Pasotti; University of Pavia, IT
15:45
Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:30
ROUNDTABLE ON DRIVING CHANGE TOWARDS LIVING MATERIALS ADOPTION
Moderation: Elena Bondareva, Founder Vivit Group Worldwide; San Fransisco, US
& Shrikrishnan Sankaran, Head Research Group Bioprogrammable Materials; Saarbrücken, DE
19:30
CONFERENCE DINNER
Saarrondo Event Location
SESSION 5: AlGAL ELMs
Chair: Shrikrishnan Sankaran
9:00
Engineered Living Devices and Materials for Ultrasensitive Mechanoluminescence
Shengqian Cai; UC San Diego, US
9:30
Overcoming Gas-Cell Mass Transfer Limitations during Gas Treatment via Engineered Biofilms
Raúl Muñoz; University of Valladolid, ES
10:00
Engineering Living Solar Cells
Jenny Zhang; University of Cambridge, GB
10:30
Engineering Phototrophic (and other) Biofilms
Robin Gerlach; State University Montana, US
11:00
ELM’s Driven by Cyanobacterial Engineering
Debika Datta; UC San Diego, US
11:15
Coffee Break
SESSION 6: ELM FABRICATION
Chair: Aránzazu del Campo
11:45
Proliferation-Driven Function in Engineered Living Materials
Taylor Ware; Texas A&M, College Station, US
12:15
Genetic Design of Living Materials
Anton Igorevich Kan; ETH Zurich, CH
12:30
De Novo Engineered Living Materials from Bacteria
Sara Molinari; University of Maryland, US
13:00
Directed Evolution of Microorganisms for Engineered Living Materials
Julie Laurent; ETH Zurich, CH
13:15 Poster Award and Closing Remarks
13:30
Lunch On Site and To Go