About the Summit

The summit is designed to spark collaboration, exchange ideas, and build lasting connections, with a focus on:

• Strengthening research synergies through community-building, strategic partnerships, and cross-disciplinary integration.
• Developing shared infrastructure solutions to enable scalable, high-throughput, and reproducible synthetic biology research.
• Advancing education and training via joint graduate and undergraduate programs, international exchanges, and shared curricular frameworks.

The program will feature:

• Concise presentations from participating centers
• Interactive breakout discussions
• Dedicated sessions for actionable planning

This is an invite-only event.

Organizing Committee

Caroline Ajo-Franklin

Caleb Bashor

Shalini Yadav

Attendees

• Rennos Fragkoudis
• Thomas Gorochowski
• Ariel Lindner
• Alvaro Banderas
• Shrikrishnan Sankaran
• Jenny Molloy
• Julius Lucks
• Danielle Tullman-Ercek
• Tara Deans
• Maitreya Dunham
• James Carothers
• Mike Koeris
• Fiona Killard-Lynch
• Huimin Zhao
• Christopher Petzold
• Sherylle Mills Englander
• Ian Wheeldon
• Caroline Ajo-Franklin
• Shalini Yadav
• Caleb Bashor
• Liz Gardner
• Karen Polizi
• Matt Bennett
• Laura Segatori

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