Engineering signaling pathways of metabolism in yeast
Goutham N. Vemuri, Chemical and biological engineering, Chalmers university of technology, Goteborg, Sweden

Rewiring Quorum Sensing Signaling Yields Autonomous Localization and Actuation of Engineered Cells
Hsuan-Chen Wu¹, Chen-Yu Tsao¹, Matthew Severinsky², Bryn Adams¹, Christopher M. Byrd¹, James J. Sumner², James J. Valdes³, Gregory F. Payne¹ and William E. Bentley¹, (1)Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, (2)Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, (3)Edgewood Chemical Biology Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

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The industrialization of synthetic biology for high-throughput strain construction and hypothesis testing
Sunil Chandran, Biology, Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, CA

Directed evolution of quorum-sensing repressors for programmed intercellular communication in synthetic microbial consortia
Jasmine Shong and Cynthia H. Collins, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Computer-aided design of synthetic biological protein devices
Katherine Volzing, Kostantinos Biliouris and Yiannis Kaznessis, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN