Bits in Bio Presents: Engineering a Climate-Safe Future with Biology
🪴 It’s SF Climate Week… and this time, we’re doing things differently 🪴
No AI.
No software.
No policy.
Bits in Bio is bringing builders at the intersection of Biotechnology and Climate.
Engineering a Climate-Safe Future with Biology
Speakers
Shandion Santoso — Sansuro Bio Building the biological foundation for large-scale seaweed cultivation, unlocking seaweed as a next-generation feedstock for the growing bioeconomy and broadening global access to biomanufacturing.
Yunqing Wang — California Institute of Technology Bioengineering PhD student working on engineering plants with synthetic genetic circuits that allow them to sense microbial activity underground and generate visible signals aboveground, creating a scalable biological interface for continuous soil monitoring and next-generation agricultural decision-making.
Nazzy Pakpour, PhD — Yeast Bay Bio Yeast Bay Bio is rethinking pest control for a world moving beyond petrochemicals. Engineered yeast delivers species-specific RNA interference, replacing toxic, persistent insecticides with a biodegradable, non-toxic alternative. Their fermentation-based approach enables scalable, low-cost production, making sustainable pest control practical for everyday use.
Delilah Milner — Primary Bio Primary Bio is a biomanufacturing company producing CRISPR-edited spirulina that is more thermostable and pH stable than traditional spirulina, resulting in carbon-negative dyes and plant-based protein powders made from mostly water and sunlight.
Itai Levin — Decycle Bio Decycle Bio delivers sustainable chemical products that meet customers' environmental goals while maintaining performance and competitive economics.
Dacia Leon — Supercool Earth Supercool Earth delivers reliable precipitation on demand. Their core technology uses biological ice-nucleating proteins to trigger rain and snow at warmer temperatures than any existing method, with applications across ski resorts, water districts, agriculture, hydropower, and disaster mitigation.
Fatma Kaplan, PhD — Pheronym Award-winning Pheronym is an ag-biotech pest management company enabling sustainable farming through nematode pheromones. Their patented, climate-friendly solution controls plant-parasitic nematodes and enhances beneficial nematodes' efficacy to eliminate pest insects.
No panels. No fluff.
Just:
8-minute lightning talks
2-minute Q&A
Real companies, real systems, real deployment
Sponsored by:
TriNet — https://www.trinet.com
Cooley LLP — https://www.cooley.com
Stifel — https://www.stifel.com
Food and drinks will be there.