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| Completed Event: | October 23, 2025 | 8:30 am - 5:00 pm |
| Completed Event: | October 24, 2025 | 8:30 am - 12:30 pm |
The Engineered Living Materials Workshop brings together academic, industry, and agency collaborators to discuss the promise and challenges of engineered living materials (ELMs). This developing class of material has additional or unique functionalities resulting from the inclusion of living cells on or within the material. These functionalities can include self-assembly, self-repair, and activities enabling increased resilience, conversion of compounds, biomaterial production, drug manufacturing, energy generation or storage, and more. ELMs are expected to provide improved material development, manufacturing, deployment, and use sustainability.
The workshop promises to blend fundamental and applied presentations on ELM research, small working groups, and discussion panels to define priority research areas, identify central challenges and potential solutions, and understand the needs of this emerging community.
The event takes a dialogic approach, and all participants are encouraged to share their perspectives, develop coalitions, and impact the direction of the ELM industry. We welcome those from academia, industry, government, and non-profits across disciplines and career levels.