77Th ESAB Meeting

77th ESAB Meeting

EuropaBio - The European Association for Biotechnology Industries, Avenue de l'armée 6, Meeting Room, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium, www.europabio.org

November 25, 2016, 11.00 – 17.00 h

Agenda

1. Word of welcome; adoption of the agenda 2. Presentation : Opportunities and Challenges for Industrial Biotech in the EU by Joanna Dupont-Inglis, Director Industrial Biotech, EuropaBio and Agnes Borg, Manager Industrial Biotech, EuropaBio 3. Asian-European Cooperation in Biocatalysis 4. Minutes of the 76th ESAB SciCom meeting 5. EFB Executive Board information (report by Roland Wohlgemuth) 6. Past activities: a. 12th International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries, RRB-12, 30 May – 1 June 2016, Ghent, Belgium, http://www.rrbconference.com/ b. BIOTRANSFORMATIONS 2016, 30 June – 2 July 2016, Warsaw, Poland, http://www.icho.edu.pl/bio2016/ c. 17th European Congress on Biotechnology, 3-6 July 2016, Krakow, Poland http://ecb2016.com d. Biocat2016 – 8th International Congress on Biocatalysis, 2016, 28 August 2016 – 1 September, Hamburg, Germany http://biocatconference.de e. 12th STRENDA Meeting, 22 – 23 September 2016, Cambridge, UK f. 5th International Conference on Novel Enzymes, 11-14 October 2016, Groningen, The Netherlands, http://www.rug.nl/research/gbb/education/novelenzymes/?lang=en g. TeQ 2016 Congress, 8-10 November 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, http://tecnologiaquimica.com.br/en/congress/

1 77th ESAB Meeting

EuropaBio - The European Association for Biotechnology Industries, Avenue de l'armée 6, Meeting Room, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium, www.europabio.org

November 25, 2016, 11.00 – 17.00 h

Agenda

7. Future activities: a. 4th Int. Conf. Implementation of Microreactor Technology in Biotechnology – IMTB 2017, 23-26 April 2017, Bled, Slovenia, http://imtb2017.fkkt.uni- lj.si/ b. 12th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting, 23 – 26 April 2017, Vienna, Austria, https://cbm12.org/ c. 5th International Conference on Biocatalysis in Non-Conventional Media BNCM2017, 9-11 May, 2017, Rostock, Germany, http://www.bncm2017.de/ d. 13th International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries, RRB-13, 7-9 June 2017, Wroclaw, Poland, http://www.rrbconference.com e. 13th Int. Symposium on Biocatalysis & Biotransformations, BIOTRANS2017, 9-13 July 2017, Budapest, Hungary, http://www.biotrans2017.com/ f. 18th European Congress on Biotechnology, ECB2018, 1-4-July 2018, Geneva, Switzerland, g. Transam 3.0, End of 2017, Manchester, UK h. 4th Multistep Enzyme Catalyzed Processes Congress, MECP i. 6th International Conference on Novel Enzymes, October 2018, Darmstadt, Germany

2 j. Other activities 8. Biocatalysis Courses 9. Working Group on Reporting of Biocatalytic Reactions, Launch STRENDA DB 10. Biocatalysis Network Activities (COST, BIOCATNET Nibb etc.) 11. AOB 12. Next SciCom Meetings 2017