We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Synthetic Biology which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday October 25, and will conclude after lunch on Friday October 29, 2021.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one online poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Synthetic Biology. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

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:

James Collins, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

Invited Speakers:

James Carothers, University of Washington

Matthews Chang, National University of Singapore

Junbiao Dai, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS

Zhuojun Dai, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS    

Barbara Di Ventura, University of Freiburg    

Paul Freemont, Imperial College London  

Ji-Sook Hahn, Seoul National University    

Huifeng Jiang, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, CAS    

Roman Jerala, Kemijski inštitut

Yong-Su Jin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign     

Jay Keasling, University of California, Berkeley    

Eun Yeol Lee, Kyung Hee University    

Dae-Hee Lee, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology    

Jeong Wook Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology

Chunbo Lou, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS    

Julius Lucks, Northwestern University 

Si Jae Park, Ewha Womans University

Pamela Peralta-Yahya, Georgia Institute of Technology

Brian Pfleger, University of Wisconsin-Madinson

Yolanda Schaerli, University of Lausanne  

Sang Woo Seo, Seoul National University    

Beatrix Suess, Technische Universität Darmstadt    

Bian Wu, Institute of Microbiology, CAS

Zhen Xie, Tsinghua University    

Haifeng Ye, East China Normal University    

Yohei Yokobayashi, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

Yan Zhang, Tianjing University    

And more ...

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in October, 2021.

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