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Tuesday 4 July |
12.00-13.15 | Lunch and Registration Breakout area |
Symposium Opening |
13:15-13:30 | Welcome BioFutures Interdisciplinary Research Theme (IDRT) Leads: Dr Meng Zhang, Associate Professor in Microbial Biotechnology, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University. Professor Gary Black, Professor of Protein Biochemistry, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University. |
Can wearables be designed to provide real-time, continuous data for reliable healthcare monitoring? Chair: Professor Richard Yongqing Fu, Professor in Smart Materials and Microsystems, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University. |
13.30-14.15 | E-Textile Wearables: Towards Digital Health Professor Henry Yi LI, Professor and Chair of Textile Science and Engineering, Department of Materials, University of Manchester, UK. |
14.15-14.45 | Plenty of room under the skin: A wearable's perspective Professor Sheng Xu, Associate Professor, Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego, USA. |
14.45-15.15 | Coffee break Breakout area |
15.15-15.30 | An ocular sensor embedded contact lens monitoring intraocular pressure fluctuations Dr Hamdi Torun, Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University |
15.30-15.45 | Flexible and Wearable Acoustic Wave Technologies Professor Richard Yongqing Fu, Professor in Smart Materials and Microsystems, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University |
15.45-16.00 | Using Breath Analysis Techniques and Wearable Sensors to Detect Supersaturated Nitrogen in the Bloodstream Dr Bethany Orme, Senior Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University |
16.00-16.15 | Flexible and wearable surface acoustic waves for enhanced drug transdermal delivery Jikai Zhang, PhD candidate, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University |
16.15-16.30 | Advancing Wearable Transdermal Therapeutic Delivery: EpiMoto Powerpatch Dr Duygu Uner Bahar, Research Fellow in Physics, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University |
16.30-17.30 | Drinks and Poster session Breakout area |
Wednesday 5 July AM |
08:30-09:00 | Registration and refreshments Breakout area. |
Can we grow everything? Chair: Dr Meng Zhang, Associate Professor in Microbial Biotechnology, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University. |
09:00-09:45 | How to grow the infrastructure for a human settlement on the Moon or Mars Professor Lynn Rothschild, Adjunct Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, USA |
09:45-10:15 | From biocement to cultured meat: frameworks to generate renewable materials with Bacillus subtilis Dr Ilana Kolodkin, Adjunct Professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Agricultural, Food & Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. |
10:15-10:45 | Coffee break Breakout area |
10:45-11:00 | Manufacturing of future living materials and the functionalisation of bacterial cellulose through engineering biology Dr Katie Gilmour, Senior Research Assistant in Biosciences, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University |
11:00-11:15 | Self-Powered, Compostable Skins for Electronic Devices Sequoia Fischer, Synthetic Biologist, Electric Skin |
11:15-11:30 | Bio-Futures for Transplanetary Habitats Monika Lipińska and Paula Nerlich, PhD candidates, The Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Newcastle University |
11:30-11:45 | Living Construction Professor Martyn Dade-Robertson, Professor of Emerging Technology, Co-Director of the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Newcastle University |
11:45-12:00 | Architecture as a Living Organism: A Mycelium Landscape Element Taylor Rayne and Katerina Suchankova, Myceelab, UMPRUM (Academy of Arts Architecture & Design), Prague, Czech Republic. |
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Wednesday 5 July PM |
12.00-13.30 | Lunch (and registration for new attendees) Breakout area |
Can waste biovalorisation help generate clean growth? Chair: Professor Gary Black, Professor of Protein Biochemistry, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University. |
13.30-14.15 | The development of biorefining strategy for the conversion of waste materials into value added products Professor Chenyu Du, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Sciences, Huddersfield University, UK |
14.15-14.45 | Sustainable chemicals from waste using engineered microorganisms: merging synthetic biology and synthetic chemistry Dr Stephen Wallace, Senior Lecturer in Biotechnology, Centre for Engineering Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK |
14.45-15.15 | Coffee break Breakout area |
15:15-15:30 | Reconciling sustainable chemical production from CO2 with feasible techno-economics Dr Rajesh Bommareddy, Assistant Professor of Metabolic Engineering and Fermentation Technology, Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Northumbria University, UK. |
15:30-15:45 | Engineered Biofilms for Small Scale CO2 Capture in Brewing Dr Jonathan Lee, Senior Lecturer, Chemical Engineering, Newcastle University |
15:45-16:00 | Using novel thermophiles for the conversion of plastic waste into value-added products Dr Jose Muñoz, Assistant Professor of Industrial Biocatalysis, Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Northumbria University, UK. |
16:00-16:15 | Engineering non-model organisms for waste biovalorisation Dr Paul James, Assistant Professor of Engineering Biology, Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Northumbria University, UK. |
16:15-16:30 | Developing chassis strains for the sustainable bioconversion of lignocellulose Dr Amias Alstrom-Moore, Senior Research Assistant, Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Northumbria University, UK. |
16.30-17.30 | Drinks and poster session Breakout area |
Thursday 6 July AM |
08:30-09:00 | Refreshments and registration Breakout area |
Biological Interface Materials Chairs: Professor Matthew Unthank, Professor in Polymer Chemistry, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University Dr Yunhong Jiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University |
09:00-09:40 | Designing Antimicrobial Biomaterials and Therapeutics in the Era of the Superbug Professor Raechelle D’Sa, Professor in Antimicrobial Biomaterials, University of Liverpool, UK. |
09:40-10:20 | 3D printing and Biofabrication for Healthcare and Sustainability Professor Shery Huang, Professor of Bioengineering, Cambridge University, UK. |
10:20-10:45 | Coffee Break Breakout area |
10:45-11:00 | Nanostructured deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as a filler in piezoelectric polymers for the design of sustainable bio-engineered energy harvesters Dr Ojodomo Achadu, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, School of Health & Life Sciences, Teeside University |
11:00-11:15 | Putting microbial photosynthetic biocomposites to work: Addressing greenhouse gas and nutrient pollution Dr Gary Caldwell, Senior Lecturer in Applied Marine Biology, Newcastle University |
11:15-11:30 | Mechanical performance of bio compatible Ti3Au thin films grown on glass and Ti6Al4V substrates Dr Cecil Cherian Lukose, Scientific Officer in Electrical Engineering, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University |
11:30-11:45 | Engineering the interface between electric microbes and materials to produce energy and chemicals from waste Dr Shafeer Kalathil, Assistant Professor in BioSciences, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University |
11:45-12:00 | Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Nanoparticles for Norovirus Detection Dr Jake McClements, NUAcT Fellow: Ageing and Health, School of Engineering, Newcastle University |
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Thursday 6 July PM |
12:00-13:30 | Lunch (and registration for new attendees) Breakout area |
Can AI design life? Chair: Dr Matthew Bashton, Assistant Professor in Computational Biology and Genomics, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University |
13:30-14:15 | Learning to read and write protein evolution Brian Hie, Stanford Science Fellow, Biochemistry, Stanford Medicine, Stanford University, USA. Visiting Researcher Meta AI. |
14:15-14:45 | Decoding the language of life Professor Burkhard Rost, Professor of Bioinformatics,TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany; Rostlab - Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. |
14:45-15:15 | Coffee break Breakout area |
15:15-15:45 | The Alignment Problem Niya Stoimenova, PhD Candidate, DEUS, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherland |
15:45-16:00 | Explainable Colon cancer stages prediction with multimodal biodata through attention-based Deep Neural Network. Olalekan Ogundipe, PhD candidate, Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Northumbria University |
Cambridge University Press |
16:00-16:15 | Introducing Research Directions: Biotechnology Design – a question led journal Mónica Moniz, Publisher & Programme Manager for Research Directions, Cambridge University Press & Assessment. |
16:15-16:30 | Poster Prize Presentation BioFutures Team & Cambridge University Press |
16.30-17:30 | Drinks and poster session Breakout area |
Friday 7 July |
08:30-09:00 | Refreshments and registration Breakout area |
Design Education for BioFutures Chair: Professor Martyn Dade-Robertson, Professor of Emerging Technology, Co-Director of the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Newcastle University |
09:00-09:45 | Biodesign: A Narrative, A Future Daniel Grushkin, Executive Director, Biodesign Challenge, USA |
09:45-10:15 | Biodesign Education: A Path to Addressing Wicked Problems Professor Giovanna Danies Turano, Associate Professor, Department of Design, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia |
10:15-10:45 | Coffee break Breakout area |
10:45-11:05 | ECOMESH Karishma Tuladhar and Simeng Sun, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL |
11:05-11:25 | Sustainable Futures: Critical Making as an enabler for Biodesign education Sam Edens and Ista Boszhard, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences |
Industry Perspectives on BioFutures Chairs: Dr Meng Zhang & Professor Gary Black, Northumbria University. |
11:25-11:30 | Introduction Professor Gary Black, Northumbria |
11.30-11:50 | Importance of Biomanufacturing in Consumer Goods Dr Linsey Fuller, Group Scientist, Newcastle Innovation Centre, Procter & Gamble |
11:50-12:10 | Bio-fabricated Textiles : designing new localised value chains and circular systems Aurélie Fontan, Fashion Designer, & Ashley Granter, Product Designer, Mykkö |
Symposium closing |
12:10-12:30 | Round up and next steps Dr Meng Zhang & Professor Gary Black, Northumbria University. |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch and collect posters Breakout area |