Biocatalysis Conference 2010
2012 Biocatalysis conference |
| Chairs | Nicholas Turner (University of Manchester) Alex Zaks (Merck) |
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| Date | Friday December 10 2010 - Monday December 13 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Synopsis | This conference will cover recent developments in biocatalysis in both academe and industry including topics such as enzyme discovery, directed evolution of enzymes, scale-up of biocatalytic processes, novel screening methods, metagenomics, pathway engineering and other areas of related research. The conference will be of interest to those working in the fields of organic chemistry, microbiology, biocatalysis and bioprocess development. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biocatalysis conference 2010 schedule
| Friday December 10 | Saturday December 11 | Sunday December 12 | Monday December 13 |
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17:30 - 19:15 Session 1 19:15 Group Dinner |
Breakfast 8:30 - 10:15 Session 2 10:15 - 10:45 Refreshment break 10:45 - 11:30 Session 3 11:30 - 12:30 Session 4 - Poster highlights 12:30 Group Lunch 16:30 - 18:30 Session 5 18:30 - 20:30 Poster session & refreshments 20:45 Group dinner |
Breakfast 8:30 - 10:15 Session 6 10:15 - 10:25 Group photograph 10:25 - 10:45 Refreshment break 10:45 - 12:30 Session 7 12:30 Group Lunch 16:30 - 18:15 Session 8 18:15 - 18:45 Refreshment break 18:45 - 20:30 Session 9 20:45 Group Dinner |
Breakfast 8:30 - 10:15 Session 10 10:15 - 10:45 Refreshment break 10:45 - 12:30 Session 11 12:30 Group Lunch 14:00 - 16:00 Session 12 |
Confirmed oral presentations
Andreas Bommarius (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Substrate specificity change of a dehydrogenase
Anton Glieder (Applied Biocatalysis, TU Graz)
New enzymes from natural and laboratory generated diversity
Bernhard Hauer (Uni Stuttgart)
The challenge of designing biocatalysts
Chris Chesters (University of Manchester)
Thermal switch in functionality in members of the MIO-containing mutase/
Chris Grant (University College London)
Scale Down and Design of Experiments (DoE) for Improved Bio-oxidation of alkanes
David Weiner (Verenium Corporation)
Looking to Nature to Make Nature Better: Enzyme Discovery and Evolution for the Development of Green Processes
David Berkowitz (University of Nebraska)
Two Faces of Enzymes in Asymmetric Synthesis
Donald Hilvert (ETH Zürich)
Designer Enzymes
Douglas Clark (uc berkeley)
Discovery, Design, and Development of Thermophilic Cellulases
Georgina Sandoval (CIATEJ)
On the kinetics of lipase-catalyzed CAPE synthesis
Gjalt Huisman (Codexis)
Sustainable Chemical Manufacture with Shuffled Enzymes
Hai Giang Tran (Centre of Expertise - Industrial Biotechnology and Biocatalysis)
Novel insights in the acceptor specificity of cellodextrin phosphorylase
Hans-Peter Meyer (Lonza AG)
Perspectives for biocatalysis – an analysis from industry
Henk-Jan Joosten (Bio-Prodict)
3DM: Systematic Analysis of Heterogeneous Super-Family Data to Discover Protein Functionalities
Irina Moreira (ESB - UCP)
Cloning, Nucleotide Sequence and Expression of Fluorobenzene Dioxygenase from Labrys portucalensis strain F11
Jacob Janey (Merck Research Laboratories)
The Development of a Biocatalytic Manufacturing Process for Sitagliptin
Joanne Foulkes (University of Manchester)
Engineering Microbial Cells for Bio-metallic Catalysis
Joelle Pelletier (Université de Montréal)
Structural and functional tolerance of enzyme active sites to modification
John Wong (Pfizer)
Asymmetric syntheses with transaminases and enoate reductases
John Woodley (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet )
Concepts in Multi-step Biocatalysis
Jon Stewart (University of Florida )
Stereoselective Biocatalytic Functional Group Reductions
Karin Engstrom (Stockholm University)
Directed Evolution of an Enantioselective Lipase with Broad Substrate Scope for Hydrolysis of alpha-Substituted Esters
Kurt Faber (University of Graz)
Biocatalytic Asymmetric C=C-Bond Reduction
Lara Babich (Amsterdam University)
One-pot phosphatase-aldolase cascade reaction for the synthesis of non-natural carbohydrates: optimization by directed evolution and immobilization.
Leonardo Rios (University College of London)
A microscale mix and match E. coli expression platform of transketolase and transaminase for the synthesis of chirals amino-alcohols
Lieke van Hemert (Radboud University Nijmegen)
One-Pot Four-Enzyme Cascade Catalysis: Two Step Synthesis of D-Fagomine
Manfred Reetz (MPI für Kohlenforschung)
Laboratory Evolution of Stereoselective Enzymes: A Prolific Source of Catalysts for Asymmetric Reactions
Matthew Wilding (University of Manchester)
Structure-Guided Directed Evolution of Arylmalonate Decarboxylases
Michael Deyholos (University of Alberta)
Next-generation sequencing for enzyme discovery in plants: whole-genome sequence of flax and high-throughput transcriptome sequencing of diverse species.
Neeraj Bala (Guru Nanak Dev University)
Enantioselective kinetic resolution of aryl glycidyl ethers by epoxide hydrolase of Bacillus alcalophilus
Oliver May (DSM Innovative Synthesis BV)
Biocatalysis: Greener Processes by Design
Paul Engel (University College Dublin)
Finding the needle in the haystack: a new approach to screening multiply-mutated dehydrogenase gene libraries
Pawel Mordaka (University of Nottingham)
Biocatalytic reduction of C=C double bonds using Clostridium sporogenes
Pratul Agarwal (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Evolutionarily Conserved Linkage Between Enzyme Fold, Flexibility, And Catalysis
Richard Lloyd (Dr. Reddy's CustomPharmaceutical Services,)
Exploring Stereoselective Synthesis of Quaternary ?-Amino acids
Robert DiCosimo (DuPont Central Research and Development)
Improving activity and selectivity of a CE-7 perhydrolase
Roseri de Beer (Radboud University)
The application of papain in the substrate mimetic approach
Uwe Bornscheuer (Greifswald University)
Protein Engineering by in silico analysis