16th European Congress on – Detailed Agenda

Plenary Session Symposium Highlight Event Keynote Speaker

Sunday 13 July Tinto Fintry Sidlaw Pentland Workshop: Industrial biotechnology 10:00 – 13:00 from fundamentals to practice. Workshop: YEBN communications workshop Organised by the Austrian Centre for Supported by the Scottish Universities 10:00 – 14:30 Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB) Life Science Alliance (SULSA) (Click here for more details) (Click here for more details)

Workshop: Biomolecular technology of Organised by BioToP - The internation- 114:50 – 16:45 al PhD programme on biotech- nology at BOKU Vienna (Click here for more details) Opening Ceremony Opening lecture: How to get biotechnology to work for us Prof. Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser to 17:00 – 19:00 European Commission

Plenary lecture: Synthetic for Synthetic Chemistry Prof. Jay Keasling, University of California, Berkeley 19:00 –20:30 WELCOME RECEPTION (CROMDALE HALL, LEVEL -2)

Monday 14 July Tinto Fintry Sidlaw Pentland Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award lecture A glimpse into the future of mammali- an cell culture process development: 09:00 – 10:00– innovative approaches to impact time 10:00 to clinic, product quality, and cost of process development and commercial manufacturing Chetan Goudar, Amgen USA

10:00 – 10:30 REFREFRESHMENTS AND EXHIBITION (CROMDALE HALL, LEVEL -2) RESHMENTS AND EXHIBITION (CROMDALE HALL, LEVEL -2) Symposium 1: Stem cell applica- Symposium 2: Plants for the produc- Symposium 3: Glycobiotechnology Symposium 4: Robust biocatalysts for 10:30 – 12:30 tions and gene therapies: where are tion of high value chemicals the production of novel bio-based 2:30 we? products Keynote: Engineering synthetic stem Keynote: Cultured cambial meriste- Keynote: Glycoarrays as tools in glyco- Keynote: Molecular design of transglu- cell niches matic cells as a source of plant natu- biotechnology cosidases for polysaccharide and oli- 10:30 Matthias Lutolf (Lausanne, CH) ral products Sabine Flitsch (Manchester, UK) gosaccharide synthesis Gary Loake (Edinburgh, UK) Pierre Monsan (Toulouse, FR) A quick potency assay for osteogenic Molecular marker-assisted selection Risk assessment of feed additives of Structural studies on transaminase and chondrogenic differentiation of and pyramiding effect of major QTLs microbial origin in the European Union enzymes and applications in biocataly- 11:00 adipose derived stem cells for cotton fiber strength Jaime Aguilera (EC Brussels, BE) sis Eleni Oberbauer (Vienna, AT) Youlu Yuan (Beijing, CN) J Littlechild (Exeter, UK)

Repeated systemic administration of The CO2 microalgae biorefinery: high Pichia pastoris GlycoDelete: the way Current developments on the engi- human adipose-derived stem cells value products and biofuels using out when N-glycans are a burden neering of Escherichia coli biofilms for 11:15 attenuate diabetic nephropathy in halophilic microalgae in the "D- Bram Laukens (Gent, BE) enzymatic biosynthesis of halotrypto- the rats Factory" phans Xue-Yuan Bai (Beijing, CN) Patricia Harvey (London, UK) Isaac Vizcaino-Caston (Birmingham, UK) Producing and harvesting culture- Exploiting nature’s chemists: high Enzymatic remodelling of chitin for Structural and biochemical characteri- derived platelets with functional value bioactive compounds from agrochemical applications zation of two novel enzymes with pro- 11:30 activity from blood stem cells algae Rémi Chambon (CNRS , FR) miscuous ene-reductase activity William Miller (Northwestern U., USA) Christine Edwards (Robert Gordon Uni- Tea Pavkov-Keller (Graz, AT) versity, Aberdeen, UK) Adipose derived stem cells respond Use of in creating Polysaccharides production by auto- Lessons on directed evolution of hy- to in vitro extracorporeal shockwave high-value metal nanoparticles from trophic cultures of microalgae drolases and glucose oxidase 11:45 treatment with increased stemness phytoremediated waste Antonio Marzocchella (Naples, IT) Ulrich Schwaneberg (Aachen, DE) and multipotency Matthew Edmundson (Edinburgh, UK) Christina Schuh (Vienna, AT) Engineering for the discov- Gene isolation and its identification Synthesis of potential prebiotics using Immobilization of carbonic anhydrase ery of potential therapeutic com- of salinity stress on G.hirsutum L. Pseudomonas syringae DC3000 for biomimetic CO2 capture in slurry 12:00 pounds against protein misfolding Wuwei Ye (CAAS, CN) levansucrase Lsc3 absorber diseases Triinu Visnapuu (Tartu, EE) Sara Peirce (Naples, IT) Georgios Skretas (Athens, GR) Computational prediction of associa- Characterization of thermostable 7-Hydroxydehydronuciferine induces Engineering of pyranose 2-oxidase for tions between psoriasis, rheumatoid peroxidase from Aegle marmelos human melanoma A375.S2 autophagy modified oxygen reactivity 12:15 arthritis and osteoarthritis and its immobilization and apoptosis and inhibits metastasis Dagmar Brugger (BOKU, Vienna, AT) Tuba Sevimoglu (Marmara, TR) Brijesh Pandey (Lucknow, IN) in vitro and in vivo Hui Min Wang (Kaohsiung, CN)

12:30-13:303:30 LUNCH AND EXHIBITION (CROMDALE HALL, LEVEL -2) EXHIBITION (CROMDALE HALL, LEVEL -2) Highlight event: Governance, risk and Highlight event: Publications work- POSTER SESSION - ODD NUMBERS responsible innovation shop: How to get your science 13:30 – 15:00 (STRATHBLANE HALL AND KILSYTH, LEVEL 0) published (Click here for more details)

Symposium 5: Synthetic biology Symposium 6: Assimilation of CO2, Symposium 7: Applications of meta- Symposium 8: Industrial biotechnolo- 15:00 – 16:00 0 CO and CH4 into biobased products bolic modelling gy of natural and synthetic polymers

Keynote: Design and production of Keynote: Microbial fixation of CO2 in Keynote: Making use of metabolic Keynote: Green polymer processing new-to-nature antimicrobials by water bodies and in drylands to com- models – In-silico driven design and with enzymes 15:00 synthetic biology bat climate change, soil loss and des- engineering of industrial microorgan- Georg Gübitz (Graz, AT) Oscar Kuipers (Groningen, NL) ertification isms Roberto de Philippis (Florence, IT) Christoph Wittmann (Braunschweig, DE) Synthetic transcription factors allow Microalgal biofuels from native bio- Design of optimally constructed meta- Open mixed cultures for bioethanol regulon wide control and shifting the logical resource of Pearl River Delta bolic networks of minimal functionality production from lignocellulosic mate- 15:30 Nitrogen/Carbon balance in bacteria Maurycy Daroch (Peking, CN) David Ruckerbauer (ACIB Vienna, AT) rials Jorg Schumacher (Imperial, London, UK) Davide Dionisi (Aberdeen, UK) Cofactor uptake in 1,2-propanediol Exploring the potential of microalgae What is the relationship between in- Strategies for enzymic functionaliza- metabolising microcompartments for bioenergy production tracellular and extracellular metabo- tion of synthetic polymers 15:45 Matthias Mayer (Kent, UK) Frank Baganz (UC London, UK) lites? The theory of “metabolic over- Enrique Herrero Acero (ACIB, Vienna, AT) flow” put into test Silas Villas-Boas (Aukland, NZ)

16:00 – 16:30 REFRESHMENTS AND EXHIBITION (CROMDALE HALL, LEVEL -2) ENTS AND EXHIBITION (CROMDALE HALL, LEVEL -2) 16:30 – 17:30 Symposium 5 (cont’d) Symposium 6 (cont’d) Symposium 7 (cont’d) Symposium 8 (cont’d) Use of transporter plug-ins in build- Development of luminescent photo- Towards genome-scale metabolic Influence of nutritional and physico- ing effective microbial cell factories bioreactors for improved microalgae pathway analysis: metabolome inte- chemical variables in PHB production for chemical and fuel production cultivation gration allows efficient enumeration of from raw glycerol by a wild Bacillus 16:30 Christopher Grant (UC London, UK) Seyedeh Fatemeh Mohsenpour (Heriot- elementary flux modes in metabolic megaterium strain Watt Edinburgh, UK) networks Carolina Guzman Luna (Rio Grande do Sol, Jürgen Zanghellini (ACIB Vienna, AT) BR)

Novel tuneable sys- Identification of new auxiliary en- Genome scale metabolic modeling of Value-added carotenoid production in tems based on orthogonal ri- zymes for the hydrolysis of lignocel- recombinant protein producing yeasts: the pennate diatom Phaeodactylum boswitches lulose Prediction of process parameters and tricornutum with light emitting diode 16:45 Neil Dixon (Manchester, UK) Oriana Salazar (Santiago, CL) metabolic engineering targets for effi- based photobioreactors cient production Weiqi Fu (UC San Diego, USA) Diethard Mattanovich (BOKU Vienna, AT) Signal transduction engineering: a Engineering biofuel producing mi- Use of a novel combinatorial Antibacterial and antifungal activity of powerful platform technology for crobes for efficient hemicellulose platform to rapidly clone, express and charcoal materials and microwave enhancing secondary metabolite utilisation using synthetic biology select target biocatalytic activities for radiation 17:00 production Gavin Thomas (York, UK) multigenic metabolic pathway optimi- Hee Jin Yang (Myongji, KR) Jian-Jiang Zhong (Shanghai, CN) zation Ian Fotherigham (Ingenza, Midlothian, UK) Development of two continuous Economic assessment of microbial Methanol – a potential carbon source Polyhydroxyalkanoates production by genome engineering strategies for lipids for biodiesel production: com- for Corynebacterium glutamicum aerobic mixed microbial cultures using efficient microbial evolution petitiveness with microalgae and Sabrina Witthoff (Jülich, DE) crude glycerol 17:15 Zhen Cai (Chinese Academy of Sciences, agricultural plant oils Paulo Costa Lemos (Lisbon, PT) CN) Ho Nam Chang (KAIST, Daejeon, KR)

Highlight event: Bioeconomy Keynote: Building a European Bioecon- omy Eveline Lecoq, (European Commission) Keynote: Addressing global policy challenges through technology: an 17.30 – 19.00 OECD perspective POSTER RECEPTION – EVEN NUM- Jacqueline Allan (OECD, France) 17:45 – 19:45 BERS (STRATHBLANE HALL AND Keynote: Asia Bioeconomy and Bio- KILSYTH, LEVEL 0) business: current scenario and future prospects, Satyahari Dey (IIT, Kharagpur, IN) Biotech products on the market as a main driver for knowledge based bio- economy Aleksandra Małyska

Tuesday 15 July Tinto Fintry Sidlaw Pentland Plenary lecture: Prosthetic gene networks for biomedical applica- tions

09:00 – 10:00 Prof. Martin Fussenegger, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich

10:00 – 10:30 REFRESHMENTS AND EXHIBITION REFRESHMENTS AND EXHIBITION (CROMDALE HALL, LEVEL -2) Symposium 9: Biomarkers and Symposium 10: Biowaste biorefin- Symposium 11: Nanotechnology: new Symposium 12: Stress responses in 10:30 – 12:30 diagnostic tools ery for a more sustainable biological applications microbial bioprocessing bioeconomy Keynote: Designing nanomaterials Keynote: Biowaste biorefinery for a Keynote: Design, structure and assembly Keynote: Mechanisms of protein for ultrasensitive biosensing more sustainable and biobased of superparamagnetic core-shell nano- folding and quality control in bacte- 10:30 Molly Stevens (Imperial London, UK) industry particles ria Fabio Fava (Bologna, IT) Erik Reimhult (BOKU, Vienna, AT) Bernd Bukau (Heidelberg, DE) Antibodies by design Development of an advanced biore- Production and characterization of HIV- Engineering customised cell signal- Peter Tessier (Rensselaar Polytechnic finery concept based on valorization 1 virus-like particles using transient ling circuits and their biotechnologi- Inst., USA) of pulp and paper industry waste gene expression in mammalian cells. cal applications 11:00 streams Sonia Gutiérrez-Granados (UAB, ES) Baojun Wang (Edinburgh, UK) Apostolis Koutinas (Athens, GR)

Engineering cofactor specificity of Biotechnological conversion of Bacterial microcompartments moving Stochastic activation of the GlpR- methyltransferases spent coffee grounds into polyhy- into the world of biotechnology controlled glp gene cluster in Pseu- Martin Tengg (Graz, AT) droxyalkanoates Stefanie Frank (Kent, UK) domonas putida KT2440 results in a 11:15 Stanislav Obruca (Brno, CZ) bistable growth pattern on glycerol Pablo Ivan Nikel (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, ES)

Synthetic bioreporters for detection Extraction of the protein fraction of Protein supramolecular engineering – The adaptation of the intestinal sul- of environmental pollutants dry distillers grains with solubles, applications in biotechnology phate reducing bacterium, Desul- Jan Roelof van der Meer (Lausanne, CH) implementing biocatalytic and Patrick Shahgaldian (Muttenz, CH) fovibrio desulfuricans, to nitrosative 11:30 chemical methods stress induced by nitric oxide Maria Villegas Torres (UC London, UK) Matthew Faulkner (Birmingham, UK)

A homogeneous quenching reso- Succinic acid production from raw Biological production of stable copper Origins of Escherichia coli growth nance energy transfer assay for H- materials by Actinobacillus suc- nanoparticles rate and cell shape changes at high Ras activation cycle monitoring and cinogenes Nikolaos Pantidos (Edinburgh, UK) external osmolality 11:45 inhibitor screening Christophe Roca (Lisbon, PT) Teuta Pilizota (Edinburgh, UK) Kari Kopra (Turku, FI)

Association of apolipoprotein E gene Enhanced welan gum production Insight into the physiological role of a Engineering global regulator cAMP polymorphism with serum lipid lev- using cane molasses as substrate by compartmentalised ferritin like protein receptor protein (CRP) of E. coli for 12:00 els Alcaligenes sp. ATCC31555 in Rhodospirillum rubrum improved biobutanol tolerance Sehrish Fatima (Karachi, PK) Jufang Wang (Guangzhou, CN) Jon Marles-Wright (Edinburgh, UK) Rongrong Jiang (Nanyng TU, SG)

Comparative large scale microRNA Investigating the biomass modifying Catalytic properties improvements of Heat shock at higher cell densities expression profiles of cynomolgus and degrading enzymatic toolbox of Alcaligenes faecalis nitrilase by self- improves the translocation of mea- monkeys, rat and human reveal miR- Aspergillus japonicus var aculeatus assembly induced aggregation sles virus hemagglutinin into the 182 associated with T2D FEC 156 with quantitative prote- Shuang Li (Guangzhou, CN) yeast endoplasmic reticulum 12:15 Hongli Du (Guangzhou, CN) omics and new generation sequenc- Rimantas Slibinskas (Vilnius, LT) ing tools George Anasontzis (Chalmers, Göte- borg, SE)

Probiotics fermented soymilk treat- ment decreases blood lipid, and ameliorates high-fat diet-induced 12:30 liver injury in mice Yuhua Wang (Jilin, CN)

LUNCH AND EXHIBITION (CROMDALE HALL, LEVEL -2) 13:15– 14:45 13:15 – 14:30 13:30 - 14:30 Highlight event: advances in omic Sponsored symposium Highlight event: careers workshop How technologies to manage your career post-qualification

Integrating omics to study human Recent developments in scaling biology and disease down and using single use probes Mathias Uhlen for measuring the live cell concen- tration by dielectric spectroscopy Pardip Sandhar (Aber Ins. UK)

Scale-down study of oscillations in POSTER PRESENTATIONS – EVEN 12:30 – 15:00 oxygen and substrate supply for NUMBERS Corynebacterium glutamicum (STRATHBLANE HALL AND KILSYTH, Marco Oldiges (Jülich, DE) LEVEL O)

Automated development of recom- binant bioprocesses – from vision to mission Florian Glauche, TU-Berlin, D

Scale up of chito-oligomer produc- tion via bacterial fermentation Hendrik Waegeman (Bio Base Europe)

Symposium 13: Biomedical Symposium 15: Recombinant Symposium 14: Plant genetic Symposium 16: Bioprocessing 15:00 – 16:00 research protein production engineering

Keynote: Bacteria fabricate 3D Keynote: Getting a grip on complex- Keynote: of second- Keynote: Bacterial enzymes for lignin scaffolds for organ regeneration es: tools and technologies for multi- ary for plant protection degradation: production of aromatic 15:00 Paul Gatenholm (Chalmers, Göteborg, protein complex research John Pickett (Rothampstead, UK) chemicals from lignocellulose SE) Dr Imre Berger (Grenoble, FR) Tim Bugg (Bath, UK)

Enzyme immobilized polymeric bio- Making life better for Escherichia Transcriptome and small RNA sequenc- Keynote: Quantitative single cell materials coli cells that produce toxic mem- ing analysis of a new dwarf mutant in analysis of isolated microbes in con- 15:30 Mukesh Doble (Madras, IN) brane proteins Gossypium hirsutum L trolled microenvironments Dimitra Gialama (Athens, GR) Xiongming Du (Huazhong, CN) Andreas Schmid (Dortmund, DE)

Osteoblast cell proliferation on mag- Population heterogeneity in Pseu- Understanding the interactions between nesium-substituted hydroxyapatite domonas putida analyzed on the plant biotic and abiotic stress through coatings single cell level using proteomics characterization of microRNA effectors Kursat Kazmanli (Istanbul, TR) and digital PCR in jute (Corchorus spp.)-Macrophomina 15:45 Michael Jahn (Dortmund, DE) phaseolina interaction system Lalit Kharbikar (Barrackpore, IN)

16:00 – 16:30 REFRESHMENTS AND EXHIBITION (CROMDALE HALL, LEVEL -2) 16:30 – 17:30 Symposium 13 (cont’d) Symposium 15 (cont’d) Symposium 14 (cont’d) Symposium 16 (cont’d) Bone regeneration through facile Synthesis of antibacterial bacterio- Can plant still be a major and cost- Continuous precipitation of recombi- binding of bone graft substitute par- phage proteins in microalgae effective source for the supply of arte- nant antibodies from CHO cell cul- ticles using mussel adhesive protein Laura Stoffels (UC London, UK) misinin, the most potent anti-malaria ture supernatant by calcium- 16:30 Hyung Joon Cha (Gyeongsangbuk-do, KR) drug? phosphate flocculation and cold eth- Kexuan Tang (Shanghai, CN) anol precipitation Nikolaus Hammerschmidt (ACIB Vienna, AT) The stabilisation of red blood cells in Integrative '-omic' approach to ex- Comparative evaluation o bacterialdver- Modelling of mixing and microbial a powdered form plore molecular mechanism of miR- sity from GM andnon-GM maize rhizo- growth in bubble column bioreactors 16:45 Krishnaa Mahbubani (Cambridge, UK) NA engineered Chinese hamster sphere using computational fluid dynamics ovary cell. Naseer Ahmad (COMSATS, Islamabad, PK) Dale McClure (Sydney, AU) Vaibhav Jadhav (BOKU Vienna, AT) Stable aqueous solutions of keratin Investigating the physiological Recombinant protein expression in the DIisposable hollow fibre bioreactors polypeptides: their properties in effect of increased heterologous chloroplast of the green microalga Chla- for high cell density virus production solution and at interfaces gene dosage in Pichia pastoris using mydomonas reinhardtii: a case study in continuous mode 17:00 Fang Pan (Manchester, UK) transcriptomics using a novel green fluorescent protein Felipe Tapia (Magdeburg, DE) Elena Camara (UAB, ES) as a reporter Stephanie Braun Galleani (UC London, UK)

Trehalolipid biosurfactants from Enhanced membrane protein ex- Engineering barley for increased Bioprocess strategies for production Rhodococcus ruber with anti- pression by engineering increased drought resistance of xylanase on agro-residual prod- adhesive and immunomodulatory intracellular membrane production Ivo Frébort (Olomouc, CZ) ucts with Aureobasidium pullulans 17:15 activities Katrien Claes (VIB Gent, BE) Sirma Yegin (Ege Univ., Izmir, TK) Maria Kuyukina (Perm State U., Moscow, RU) 18:00 – 19:30 Open Meeting Symposium 21: Biodegradation and 17:45 – 19:15 Highlight Event: Public Engagement biomediation Workshop

Organised by the Asian Federation Bioremediation for resource recov- 17:45 of Biotechnology ery Louise Horsfall (Edinburgh, UK)

Arsenic bioremediation potential of 18:00 novel bacterial strains isolated from As contaminated groundwater of West Bengal, India Pinaki Sar (Kharagpur, IN) 18:15 Reduction of hexavalent chromium using combination of nanoscale zero- 17:30 – 19:00 valent iron and biological treatment 18:30 POSTER RECEPTION – ODD NUMBERS in-situ (STRATHBLANE HALL AND KILSYTH, Tomáš Cajthaml (Prague, CS) LEVEL O) Isolation of PAH dwelling Penicillium for application in bioremediation 18:45 processes Elisabet Aranda (CSIC Barcelona, ES)

Potential of ectomycorrhizal fungus Pisolithus tinctorius to tolerate and to degrade trifluoroacetate into fluo- roform 19:00 Paula Castro (Porto, PT)

Is sulfonamide bacteriostatic biodeg- radation a new bacterial resistance mechanism? Benjamin Ricken (Muttenz, CH) 19:30 – 23:00 GALA DINNER (ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH)

Wednesday 15 July

Pentland Fintry Sidlaw Tinto Symposium 17: Development of Symposium 18: Exploitation of met- Symposium 19: Evolutionary strategies Symposium 20: Systems 09:00 – 11:00 new vaccines and antimicrobials agenomics for environmental and for cell factory development biocatalysis biocatalytic applications Keynote: Insect cell technology as a Keynote: Metagenomics: mining for Keynote: Evolutionary and reverse met- Keynote: Combination of the two vaccine producing platform novel catalysts abolic engineering of Saccharomyces "worlds": chemo- and biocatalysis 09:00 Paula Alves (ITQB, PT) Elizabeta Bonch-Osmolovskaya cerevisiae towards multi-step one-pot process- (Moscow, RU) Jack Pronk (TU-Delft, NL) es Harald Gröger (Bielefeld, DE) Engineering of factor H binding pro- Metagenomics unveils bacterial and Adaptive evolution of Saccharomyces Keynote: Engineering artificial me- tein, a key vaccine antigen for the fungal communities response to cerevisiae to early stage of an alcoholic tabolisms in vitro prevention of meningococcal disease mycoremediation of polychlorinated fermentation Wolf-Dieter Fessner (Darmstadt, DE) 09:30 Hayley Lavender (Oxford, UK) biphenyl-contaminated soil Ana Mangado (ICVV/CSIC, ES) Tatiana Stella (Prague, CZ)

Antimicrobial properties of sophoro- Mining alginate lyases in sediment Genome dynamics of the human em- lipids produced by Candida bombico- metagenomes from four geograph- bryonic kidney 293 (HEK293) lineage in la ATCC 22214 against Gram positive ically distant cold coastal environ- response to cell biology manipulations 09:45 and Gram negative bacteria. ments Morgane Boone (VIB Gent, BE) Mayri Alejandra Diaz De Rienzo Hebe Dionisi (CENPAT-CONICET, Buenos (Manchester, UK) Aires, AR) Tailoring Streptomyces: producing Designed sensor cells for direct de- Versatile and stable vectors for efficient Expanding the diversity of diketop- novel minor groove binder antibi- tection of microbial colonies with gene expression in Ralstonia eutropha iperazines biosynthesized by cy- 10:00 otics target enzyme activities on solid H16 clodipeptide synthases Emilio Cortes Sanchez (Strathclyde, UK) plates Petra Koefinger (TU-Graz, AT). Isabelle Jacques (SIMORPO, Fontenay- Haseong Kim (KRIBB, Daejeon, KR) aux-Roses, FR) Progesterone biosynthesis by com- Metagenomic analysis of microbial Novel human kidney epithelial cell line Improving the performance of cou- bined action of adrenal steroidogen- community in petroleum refinery in pharmaceutical biotechnology pled racemase/acylase systems: ic and mycobacterial enzymes in fast waste using next generation se- Lukas Fliedl (ACIB Vienna, AT) new structural insights and novel 10:15 growing mycobacteria quencing and assessment of biore- tools for high-throughput screening. Nicolai Strizhov (Moscow, RU) mediation potential Guiomar Sanchez Carron (Edinburgh, Sufia Kazy (Durgapur, IN) UK) DNA vaccine expressing ubiquitin- Bioconversion of lignocellulosic hy- De novo production of geranic acid with Artificial enzyme cascade to the pol- conjugated multi-fragments antigens drolysates: strategies to overcome Pseudomonas putida ymer building block ω-amino capro- protects BALB/c mice against Toxo- the inhibitory effects at high gravity Jens Schrader (DECHEMA RI, Frankfurt,DE) ic acid 10:30 plasma gondii infection processes Wolfgang Kroutil (Graz, AT) Hua Cong (Shandong, CN) Charilaos Xiros (Chalmers, Göteborg, SE)

Cyanobacteria Nostoc sp. SI-SN from High-throughput nL-reactor screening Uncovering the broader roles of hypersaline lake produces C- for antimicrobial peptides redox partner proteins for cyto- 10:45 Phycoerythrin with potent antioxi- Steven Schmitt (ETH Zürich, CH) chrome P450 enzymes dant and DNA protection activity. Shengying Li (Quindao, CN)

Saadia Ijaz (Multan, PK)

Proteome-wide analysis of the func- tional roles of bacilysin biosynthesis 11:00 in Bacillus subtilis Gulay Ozcengiz (METU, Ankara, TR) 11:00 – 11:30 REFRESHMENTS AND EXHIBITION (CROMDALE HALL, LEVEL -2) Plenary lecture: Bio-based produc- tion of chemicals, fuels and materi- als by metabolically engineered 11:30 – 12:30 microorganisms

Prof. Sang Yup Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Closing ceremony and awards 12:30 – 13:00 presentations