Tentative Agenda – Final Agenda with talk titles will be posted soon.

Time	Event	Location
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM	Symposium Welcome Reception/Dinner/Check-In	Creature Comforts, 271 W Hancock Ave

Time	Event	Location
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM	Check In/Breakfast	Special Collections Library – Exhibition Hallway
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM	Opening Remarks Dr. Anna Stenport, Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, UGA Dr Harshavardhan Thippareddi, CAES Associate Dean for Research, UGA	Special Collections Library – Exhibition Hallway

Session 1: Engineering Regulation: Single Genes to Multi-Gene Networks

Time	Speaker/Session	Room
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM	Gözde Demirer, Caltech	Special Collections Library Room 285
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM	Wayne Parrott, IPBGG, UGA
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM	Brad Nelms, Plant Biology, UGA
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM	Peggy Ozias-Akins, Horticulture, UGA
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM	Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM	Sonali Quantius, Inari
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM	Kelly Dawe, UGA
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM	Bob Schmitz, Genetics, UGA
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Trainee Lightning Talks
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM	Networking Lunch	Special Collections Library – Exhibition Hallway

Session 2: Functional Molecules and Metabolisms

Time	Speaker/Session	Location
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM	Wolfgang Busch, HPI, Salk Inst.	Special Collections Library Room 285
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM	CJ Tsai, Forestry, UGA
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM	Jianli Zhang, BEBL, UGA
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM	Break
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM	Ryan Nett, MCB, Harvard Univ
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM	Chenxin Li, CAGT, UGA
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM	Bree Urbanowicz, CCRC, UGA
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM	Panel Discussion: Innovating Bioproducts – Food, Feed, Fuel, Fibers and Beyond Moderator: Anumantha Kanthasamy
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM	Student Poster Setup	Special Collections Library – Exhibition Hallway
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM	Dinner	Special Collections Library – Room 285
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM	Student Poster Competition and Evening Social	Special Collections Library – Exhibition Hallway

Time	Event	Location
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM	Breakfast	Special Collections Library – Exhibition Hallway

Session 3: Designing Organism-Environment Interactions and Resiliency

Time	Speaker/Session	Location
8:45 AM – 9:15 AM	Harnessing plant synthetic biology for solutions to global climate and bioenergy challenges Yumin Tao, CSO, Living Carbon	Special Collections Library Room 285
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM	Robin Buell, CAGT, UGA
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM	TBA
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM	Coffee Break
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Ellen Rim, UC-Davis
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Melissa Mitchum, Plant Pathology, UGA
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM	Yasuo Yoshikuni, JGI, LBL, DOE
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM	Panel Discussion: Emerging Global Challenges and Synthetic Biology Solutions Moderator: Marshall Shepard
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM	Concluding Remarks