The 3rd student-driven

Sustainability and Synthetic Biology Conference

Program

11:30 – 11:40

Welcome & Networking

11:40 – 12:20

Agriculture

  • Engineering Corn for Natural Pesticide Biosynthesis
  • Synthetic Nodule-Like Structures in Cereals Using CRISPR-Cas9

12:20 – 13:20

Health

  • Probiotics for Preventative Dentistry
  • Engineering Steroidogenic Organoids for Hormone Replacement Therapy
  • Microbiome Engineering for Improved Gut Health

13:20 – 14:00

Industry

  • Engineering Autotrophic S. cerevisiae via Optimized Directed Endosymbiosis
  • Engineering Lactobacillus for Lactose-Free Dairy Production

14:00 – 14:30

Break – Voting Begins

14:30 – 15:30

Synthetic Biology for Sustainability

15:30 – 16:00

  • McGill iGEM 2025 – Nicholas da Costa Bastidas, Lucas Elliott & Mia Bhatia

16:00

Award announcement

16:10

Networking & Goodbye Party

Thank you to ELATE and the Ignea Lab for sponsoring this event.