Bio Innovation Week
Conference Date
16-19 November, 2024Conference Location
Boston, Massachusetts, USAAnnouncements
IWBDA Scholarships
IWBDA Scholarships are available for students, postdocs, and young researchers. Please see this PDF for details. .
This year applications will be accepted via this Google form: Scholarship Application Form.
Bio Innovation Week
Introducing Bio Innovation Week, a new annual event to bring people together to meet and discuss topics focused on the intersection of synthetic biology, systems biology, computer aided design, and lab automation. Bio Design Week will include the annual International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA), International Workshop on Bio Manufacturing Automation (IWBMA), a Nona Works hackathon, SBOL Workshops, and additional meetings and workshops on relevant topics, social events. Bio Design Week offers a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion, with the aim of seeding and fostering collaboration between the biological and the design automation research communities.
Bio Design Week and IWBDA are organized by the non-profit Bio-Design Automation Consortium (BDAC). The Nona Works Hackathon is organized by the Nona Research Foundation. BDAC and the Nona Research Foundation are both officially recognized 501(c)(3) tax exempt organizations.
Events
Contact Us
Interested in participating, organizing, or sponsoring Bio Innovation Week? Reach out to us for more information on how you can get involved in IWBDA, IWBMA, the Nona Works Hackathon, or SBOL Workshops. We look forward to hearing from you!
Conference Logistics
Location Details
Bio-Innovation Week will be held at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering in Boston University.
Address:610 Commonwealth Ave,Boston, MA 02215,United States
Hotels
Hotels close to Boston University and Asimov during Bio-Design Week may be more expensive than usual due to a Red Sox-Yankees series happening during the same week. We recommend looking at hotels along the MBTA’s Green Line (B) or within a reasonable walking distance to Boston University. There are options over in the Longwood Medical area (~25 minute walk or ~15 min by public transportation). Hotels in Cambridge may also be less expensive, but would require a longer commute.
Registration
Agenda
Bio-Innovation Week - November 16-19, 2024
Saturday, November 16 - 610 Commonwealth Avenue, CILSE 101
- 08:30-09:00 Registration and light breakfast
- 09:00-09:10 Welcome and kick-off of Bio Innovation Week
- 09:10-10:10 Keynote - Dr Roseanna N. Zia: Colloidal Physics Instantiates Life in Biological Cells
- 10:10-10:40 Coffee break
- 10:40-12:00
- SBOL Data Model Workshop
- NonaWorks Logistics, Examples, Demos (TBD)
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch
- 13:00-14:20
- SBOL Visual Workshop
- NonaWorks + Office Hours
- 14:20-15:00 Coffee break
- 15:00-16:00 Nona Works: Present Proposals
Sunday, November 17 - 610 Commonwealth Avenue, CILSE 101
- 08:30-09:00 Registration and light breakfast
- 09:00-10:20 Managing lab info
- 10:20-10:45 Coffee break
- 10:45-12:00 Managing lab info
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch
- 13:00-14:20 IWBDA Talks
- 13:00-13:20 A Novel Approach to Tuning Effective Translation Rate: Tree-Based RBS Structural Analysis
- 13:20-13:40 Deep Bayesian Optimization for NAND Aptamer Design
- 13:40-14:00 PUMA: Promoter Unraveling Through Machine-learning Algorithms
- 14:00-14:20 A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Automated Estimation of Rare-event Probabilities in Biochemical Systems
- 14:20-14:40 Coffee break
- 14:40-16:00 IWBDA Talks
- 14:40-15:00 A Decade of SBOL Visual: The Adoption of a Diagram Standard
- 15:00-15:20 Rule-based generation of synthetic genetic circuits
- 15:20-15:40 SynBioSuite 2: Improving Encoding of Genetic Designs and Extending DBTL Coverage
- 15:40-16:00 Making two turns of the DBTL Cycle to improve a biosensor
- 08:30-17:00 NonaWorks Office Hours
Monday, November 18 - 8 St. Mary’s Street, Photonics 906
- 08:30-09:00 Registration and light breakfast
- 09:00-10:00 Keynote - Dr. Michael Koeris
- 10:00-10:25 Coffee break
- 10:25-11:45 Synbiohub Workshop
- 11:45-13:20 Lunch
- 13:20-14:40 IWBMA Talks: Amplifying Science Through Automation
- 14:40-15:10 Coffee break
- 15:10-16:30 IWBDA Talks
- 15:10-15:30 Uncovering the genetic basis of transformation efficiency in Kluyveromyces marxianus with comparative omics
- 15:30-15:50 The NIST Living Measurement Systems Foundry: Protocols and Standards for Large-Scale, Quantitative Sequence-Function Measurements
- 15:50-16:10 Additive Manufacturing Enabled Monolayer Chambers for Immune Cells’ Communication Studies
- 16:10-16:30 Certification and validation of engineered DNA molecules
- 08:30-16:50 NonaWorks Office Hours
- 17:30-20:30 Dinner
Tuesday, November 19 - 610 Commonwealth Avenue, CILSE 101
- 08:30-09:00 Registration and light breakfast
- 09:00-09:45 NonaWorks Presentations and Voting
- 09:45-10:15 Coffee break
- 10:30-11:30 Brainstorming
- 11:30-12:00 Brainstorming and Summary
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch
- 13:00-14:00 IWBMA Industry Talks
- 14:00-15:00 IWBDA Talks
- 14:00-14:15 Open-Set Biomedical Context Extraction via Multi-Task and Semi-Supervised Learning
- 14:15-14:30 Knowledge retrieval and information reuse: a receptor design study
- 14:30-14:45 The role of NLP and LLMs in automating expert-driven model refinement: a GBM case study
- 14:45-15:00 Ligify: Automated Genome Mining for Ligand-Inducible Transcription Factors
- 13:00-15:00 NonaWorks Office Hours
- 15:00-15:20 Awards and Closing Remarks
- 15:20-17:30 Vendor Booths & Cocktail Hour & DAMP Lab Tours in 106B and 106D
Organising Committee
Aaron Adler
Bio-Design Automation Consortium
Natasa Miskov-Zivanov
Bio-Design Automation Consortium
Traci Haddock
Bio-Design Automation Consortium
Prashant Vaidyanathan
Bio-Design Automation Consortium
Douglas Densmore
Bio-Design Automation Consortium
