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. Protein design using deep learning
David Baker, University of Washington, USA (Virtual)
9:35 a.m. Charting the ‘Dark’ Chemical Universe with Machine Learning
Francesca Grisoni, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
10:10 a.m. Accelerating biological discovery with AI
Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez, University of Pennsylvania, USA
10:45 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
11:15 a.m. Genome Rewriting Technologies in Yeast and Mammalian Cell
Yi Wu, Tianjin University, China
11:50 a.m. Flash Talk
Knowledge-accelerated inverse design of functional polymers via a self-evolving agent
Wantong Song, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
11:55 a.m. Flash Talk
Unifying chemical structure and biological effect with a molecule multimodal foundation model
Lianlian Wu, Academy of Military Medical Sciences
12:00 p.m. Flash Talk
12:05 p.m. LUNCH
Session II: Molecular Assembly
1:30 p.m. RNA origami: From hardware for synthetic cells to therapeutics
Kerstin Göpfrich, Heidelberg University, Germany
2:05 p.m. DNA framework enabled data storage
Xiaolei Zuo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
2:40 p.m. Flash Talk
Adaptive Biohybrids Enabled by Light-based Communication and Integrated Feedback
Xiaoran Zheng, University of Münster
2:45 p.m. Flash Talk
DNA-directed nanofabrication of ultra-scaled high-performance electronics
Yahong Chen, Xiamen Univeristy
2:50 p.m. Flash Talk
Programming Adaptive Matter with Synthetic Biology
Weijie Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology 
2:55 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
3:25 p.m. Rational Engineering of Protein-based Biomaterials
Hongbin Li, University of British Columbia, Canada
4:00 p.m. Building Artificial Cells from DNA
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

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Session III: Synthetic biology for novel therapeutic modalities (Part 1)
9:00 a.m. From Self-Assembly to Smart Regeneration: Engineering Bioinspired Materials for Healing and Sensing
Lihi Adler-Abramovich, Tel Aviv University, Israel
9:35 a.m. Cybernetic Therapeutics: A New Era in Medicine
Martin Fussenegger, ETH Zurich & University of Basel, Switzerland
10:10 a.m. 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. 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. Talk Title - TBA
Shutao Wang, Technical Institute of Physics And Chemistry, CAS, China
2:05 p.m. Engineering Living Materials for Health and Sustainability
Chao Zhong, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2:40 p.m. Flash Talk
Inter-domain energetics of hyaluronan synthase controls hyaluronic acid sequence and length
Kaiyi Zhu, Tsinghua University
2:45 p.m. Flash Talk
Engineering Mineralized Living Bacteria as Active Building Blocks for Macroscopic Composite Materials
Xiaoli Li, Peking University
2:45 p.m. Flash Talk
CRISPR-Cas12a-Responsive DNA Hydrogel Platform for Malaria Biosensing
JunHo Yang, Gyeongsang National University
2:55 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
3:25 p.m. Biochip and Biosystem for Multimodal Phenotyping of live cells
Rong Zhu, Tsinghua University, China
4:00 p.m. DNA-based molecular measurement tools
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

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Session V: Synthetic biology for clinical translation (Part 2)
9:00 a.m. Discovery of the emerging nanotherapeutics based on membrane biomaterials
Guangjun Nie, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
9:35 a.m. Synthetic biology in biomedicine: towards the design of improved cell therapies
Velia Siciliano, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy
10:10 a.m. Multidimensional Immunoengineering to Advance Cancer Immunotherapy: The Journey from Bench to Bedside and Back
Li Tang, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
10:45 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
11:15 a.m. Reimaging Immunotherapy: Engineering the Tumor, Not the Immune System
Jiandong Huang, The University of Hong Kong, China 
11:50 a.m. Flash Talk
Noninvasive deep tissue gelation via ultrasound-triggered protein unfolding
Yi Chen, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
11:55 a.m. Flash Talk
Programmable Nonviral Materials for Gene Editing and Immune Cell Engineering
Xiaoqi (Kevin) Sun, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sina
12:00 p.m. Flash Talk
Modular platform to engineer spatial information enables developmental transition in human organoids
Masaya Hagiwara, RIKEN BDR
12:05 p.m. POSTER AWARD & CLOSING REMARKS
Preliminary program – subject to change. Last updated: September 23, 2026.

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