Conference Programme
Tuesday APRIL 18TH
TIME | all times are CET |
08:30 | REGISTRATION (location: Aula TU Graz) |
09:00 – 09:30 | WELCOME ADDRESS and OPENING REMARKS |
SESSION 1 | |
09:30 – 10:10 | INVITED LECTURE – IL1 Martina Letizia Contente (University of Milan, Italy) Synthesis of Biologically Active Molecules by Continuous Flow Biocatalysis |
10:10 – 10:30 | LECTURE – OP1 Lucija Ruzic (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Nanostructured Supports for Enzyme Immobilization |
10:30 – 10:50 | LECTURE – OP2 Jan Benedict Spannenkrebs (NTNU, Norway) Bacillus subtilis Spore Display of Processive Enzymes |
10:50 – 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
SESSION 2 | |
11:30 – 11:50 | LECTURE – OP3 Antía Pintor (University of Oviedo, Spain) The Combination of an Amine Transaminase and a Lipase under Flow Conditions for Chiral Amide Synthesis |
11:50 – 12:10 | LECTURE – OP4 Philipp Petermeier (Aarhus University, Denmark) Advancing Eco-Efficiency: Chemoenzymatic Process Engineering for Bio-based Monomers |
12:10 – 12:30 | LECTURE – OP5 Marina Simona Robescu (University of Pavia, Italy) (Bio)Surfing the Wave of Cheese Whey Upcycling for the Synthesis of Biosurfactants |
12:30 – 13:30 | LUNCHBREAK |
SESSION 3 | |
13:30 – 13:50 | INVITED LECTURE – OP6 Florian Csarman (BOKU University, Austria) Kinetic Insights into the H2O2-driven Catalysis of Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenase Acting on Solid and Soluble Substrates |
13:50 – 14:10 | LECTURE – OP7 Nicoletta Cascelli (University of Oviedo, Spain) Laccase and Amine Transaminase Cooperation in Biocatalytic Conversion of Furfural and 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural |
14:10 – 14:30 | LECTURE – OP8 Ortwin Ertl (Annikki GmbH, Austria) Annikki´s Bio-Chemical Platform |
14:30 – 16:00 | POSTER SESSION Poster with even numbers |
SESSION 4 | |
16:00 – 16:20 | LECTURE – OP09 Judith Münch (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Functional Expression of Novel Unspecific Peroxygenases from Plant Pathogen Fungi Designed Directly From Sequences |
16:20 – 16:40 | LECTURE – OP10 Reuben Leveson-Gower (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Boronic-Acid Catalysis in an Artificial Enzyme |
16:40 – 17:00 | LECTURE – OP11 Mariia A. Beliaeva (University of Basel, Switzerland) Metallopterin-Dependent Sulfurase in Anaerobic Ergothioneine Biosynthesis |
18:30 | Reception sponsored by the City of Graz and CONFERENCE DINNER Rooftop Mensa, TU Graz |
WEDNESDAY APRIL 19TH
TIME | all times are CET |
08:30 – 09:00 | WELCOME (location: Aula TU Graz) |
SESSION 5 | |
09:00 – 09:40 | BioTechMed-Graz presents: Invited Lecture – IL2 Anthony Gitter (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Mutational Effect Transfer Learning for Protein Design with Small Datasets |
09:40 – 10:00 | LECTURE – OP12 Jordi Soler (Universitat de Girona, Spain) Computational Aided Engineering of a Selective Unspecific Peroxygenase Toward Enantiodivergent β-Ionone Hydroxylation |
10:00 – 10:20 | LECTURE – OP13 Zara Seibel (CODEXIS, USA) Evolution and Development of an ERED/KRED Biocatalytic Cascade |
10:20 – 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
SESSION 6 | |
11:00 – 11:20 | LECTURE – OP14 Ivana Drienovska (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Exploring Artificial Enzymes with Unnatural Amino Acids: A Path to Next-Generation Catalysis |
11:20 – 11:40 | LECTURE – OP15 Hanna Grimm (Graz University of Technology, Austria) In-depth Characterization of Light-Driven C=C double Bond Reductions by a Series of Ene-reductases in Recombinant Cyanobacteria |
11:40 – 12:00 | LECTURE – OP16 Pierre Schoenmakers (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Electricity-driven Production of N-heterocycles in Cupriavidus necator |
12:30 – 13:30 | LUNCHBREAK |
13:30 – 14:30 | POSTER SESSION Poster with uneven numbers |
SESSION 6 | |
14:30 – 15:10 | LECTURE – IL3 Martin Grininger (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) Directing Multistep Biosynthesis: Megasynthases Enable Access to New-To-Nature Compounds |
15:10 – 15:30 | LECTURE – OP17 Nico D. Fessner (University of Freiburg, Germany) First Aid for Medicinal Chemists: Bioprospecting Cytochrome P450 Enzymes to Diversify Natural Product |
15:50 – 16:10 | LECTURE – OP18 Carolin Mügge (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) Cytochrome P450 – Driven Oxyfunctionalization of Simple Substrates |
16:10-.16:30 | AWARDS and CLOSING REMARKS |