IWBDA 2024

Conference Date

16-19 November, 2024

Conference Location

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Important Dates

Abstract Submission

~~September 29, 2024~~ October 13, 2024

Workshop Submission

~~September 29, 2024~~ October 13, 2024

Notice of Acceptance

October 15, 2024

Announcements

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.

Late Breaking Abstract Submissions

Now Open: Submissions for our late breaking abstracts for IWBDA!

Call for Papers

Join us for the 16th annual IWBDA meeting, in Boston, November 16-19, 2024. This year, IWBDA will take place during Bio Innovation Week and will include presentation and poster talks selected from submitted abstracts, Birds of a Feather discussions, and breakout sessions on selected topics. We aim to bring together academic researchers and industry partners to push the field of bio-design automation for synthetic biology forward.

The field of biology is still lagging behind the industry when it comes to implementation and adoption of computational and digital solutions. This is primarily because it is extremely difficult to offer a one-size-fits-all solution to engineer biology. Some BDA solutions serve as templates for a larger problem, but, to make it usable in a practical setting, the solutions often have to be redesigned for bespoke biological workflows. Without understanding the requirements of the broader synthetic biology community, it is hard to design a solution that can have a wider impact.

Increasing the efficiency of biological processes and workflows with biodesign automation is a continuous journey that requires fresh exchange of ideas. It is crucial for the BDA community to have a forum where they can collaborate, gather new perspectives, and understand the requirements of the broader synthetic biology community. IWBDA provides this forum for cross-disciplinary discussion, with the aim of seeding and fostering collaboration between the researchers from the synthetic biology, systems biology, and design automation communities.

Topics of Interest

Design methodologies for synthetic biology
Standardization of biological components
Biosecurity in lab automation processes
Biopreparedness through bio-design automation
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in synthetic biology
Computer aided design tools and automation for engineering biology
Biofoundries and their impact on synthetic biology
Formalized protocol capture
Design Build Test Case studies
Synthetic Biology education and outreach

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts must be submitted via EasyChair. Submissions cannot exceed two pages (excluding figures and tables). If you do not have an EasyChair account, please create one by following the instructions specified here.

All abstracts must use the IWBDA template and must not exceed two pages excluding the figures and tables. The following versions of the template are available for use:

All abstracts will undergo a single-blind peer review process on EasyChair. The accepted abstracts will be invited to present their work as a poster or a talk at the conference.

We encourage abstracts for posters and/or talks at IWBDA 2023 on ongoing research that may be submitted as a full journal paper later. We are currently in talks with ACS Synthetic Biology to set up a special issue on bio-design automation for such extended journal submissions.

Registration

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Call for Workshops

Do you have an idea for a workshop for Bio-Innovation Week? Submit a proposal for your workshop by uploading a PDF with the following information: workshop title, short description (100 words or less), overall goal(s), format, and expected length in hours for the workshop. Workshops are expected to take place on November 16 and 17.

Upload your proposals here.

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

Contact Us

Interested in participating, organizing, or sponsoring IWBDA or 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!