GCSB 2026

Keynote Speakers

 

RNA design: Folds for synthetic cells

Kerstin Göpfrich (Heidelberg University, Germany)

The road to animal free natural products: synthetic biology 
approaches for the biosynthesis of animal-derived chemicals

Mattaeos Koffas (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US)

Engineering synthetic gene circuits:
a roadmap towards genetically augmented plants

Diego Orzáez (CSIC, Valencia, Spain)

Engineering Bacteria to Talk and Compute

Yolanda Schaerli (UNIL University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Programming Cells and Materials with Synthetic Biology

Wilfried Weber (INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken, Germany)

Spatiotemporal control in synthetic and living cells using light

Seraphine Wegner (University of Münster, Germany) 

 

 

 

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100 Jahre DECHEMA e.V.