Day 1 - Wednesday 14 October, 2026

All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
8:45 a.m. WELCOME REMARKS 
Session I: Biomolecular Design - Synthetic Approches/AI etc  
9:00 a.m. Invited Talk (Virtual)
David Baker, University of Washington, USA
9:35 a.m. Invited Talk
Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
10:10 a.m. Invited Talk
 
10:45 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
11:15 a.m. Invited Talk
Accelerating biological discovery with AI
Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez, University of Pennsylvania, USA
11:50 a.m. Flash Talks
12:05 p.m. LUNCH
Session II: Molecular Assembly
1:30 p.m. Invited Talk
Kerstin Göpfrich, Heidelberg University, Germany
2:05 p.m. Invited Talk
Xiaolei Zuo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
2:40 p.m. Flash Talks
2:55 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
3:25 p.m. Invited Talk
Hongbin Li, University of British Columbia, Canada
4:00 p.m. Invited Talk
Andreas Walther, University of Mainz, Germany
4:35 p.m. Poster Session I
5:30 p.m. End of day

Day 2 - Thursday 15 October, 2026

All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
Session III: Synthetic biology for novel therapeutic modalities (Part 1)
9:00 a.m. Invited Talk
Lihi Adler-Abramovich, Tel Aviv University, Israel
9:35 a.m. Invited Talk
Martin Fussenegger, ETH Zurich & University of Basel, Switzerland
10:10 a.m. Invited Talk
Progress in Mechano-X: Overcoming Material Property Trade-offs via Bio-inspired Strategies
Huajian Gao, Tsinghua University, China
10:45 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
11:15 a.m. Invited Talk
Bioelectronics for encapsulated cell therapy
Kewang Nan, Zhejiang University, China
11:50 a.m. Round Table Discussion
12:30 p.m. LUNCH
Session IV: Materials and Systems
1:30 p.m. Invited Talk
Aránzazu del Campo, Saarland University, Germany
2:05 p.m. Invited Talk
Chao Zhong, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2:40 p.m. Flash Talks
2:55 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
3:25 p.m. Invited Talk
Biochip and Biosystem for Multimodal Phenotyping of live cells
Rong Zhu, Tsinghua University, China
4:00 p.m. Invited Talk
Peng Yin, Harvard Medical School, USA
4:35 p.m. Poster Session II
5:30 p.m. End of day

Day 3 - Friday 16 October, 2026

All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
Session V: Synthetic biology for clinical translation (Part 2)
9:00 a.m. Invited Talk
Discovery of the emerging nanotherapeutics based on membrane biomaterials
Guangjun Nie, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
9:35 a.m. Invited Talk
Synthetic biology in biomedicine: towards the design of improved cell therapies
Velia Siciliano, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy
10:10 a.m. Invited Talk
Li Tang, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
10:45 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
11:15 a.m. Invited Talk
Reimaging Immunotherapy: Engineering the Tumor, Not the Immune System
Jiandong Huang, The University of Hong Kong, China 
11:50 a.m. Flash Talks
 
12:05 p.m. POSTER AWARD & CLOSING REMARKS
Preliminary program – subject to change. Last updated: Jun 18, 2026.

Times are displayed in CST