OpenPlant is a BBSRC-EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre, part of the UK Synthetic Biology for Growth programme, and collaboration between the University of Cambridge, the John Innes Centre and the Earlham Institute. The Centre brings together cutting-edge foundational technologies to pioneer development of open tools and innovation in agri-tech research, industrial biotechnology and bioengineering services. By understanding and harnessing the full genetic potential of plants as platforms for production of food, biofuel, medicines, and advanced new materials, OpenPlant is developing predictive capacity that will provide designer solutions to address the major societal and environmental challenges of the 21st century. At the Forum we will discuss recent developments in the field, and have the opportunity to meet researchers from the OpenPlant community and further afield.
The OpenPlant Forum 2019 conference booklet contains the full programme and poster abstracts.
Keynote Speakers
Junbiao Dai
Professor, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Susan Rosser
Professor of Synthetic Biology, University of Edinburgh
Director, Edinburgh Mammalian Synthetic Biology Research Centre
Co-director, Edinburgh Genome Foundry for synthetic DNA synthesis and assembly
Somenath Bakshi
Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Daphne Ezer
Research Fellow, Alan Turing Institute for Data Science
Sara-Jane Dunn
Scientist, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Affiliate PI, Wellcome-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge
Leopold Parts
Group Leader, Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Wendy Harwood
Professor, Dept. of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre
Mario Arteaga-Vazquez
Professor, University of Veracruz, Mexico
Jason Chin
Head, Centre for Chemical & Synthetic Biology
Programme Leader, Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Martin Howard
Professor, Dept. of Computational and Systems Biology, John Innes Centre