Biocatalysis Conference 2012
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| Chairs | John Woodley (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet ) Tom Desmet (Ghent University) |
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| Date | Tuesday December 4 2012 - Friday December 7 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Synopsis | Today, biocatalysis - the use of enzymes to catalyze synthetic chemical reactions - is one of the fastest growing interfacial disciplines. Exquisite selectivity is combined with mild conditions and the ability to tailor the biocatalyst to specific needs. In recent years academic research in biocatalysis has made great scientific developments at the interface of protein chemistry, biochemistry, protein expression as well as bioprocess engineering. Industrial interest is also high since new opportunities from renewable feedstocks to selective catalysis for pharmaceuticals will all involve biocatalytic processes to some extent. The conference aims to bring together the world?s leading academic and industrial researchers in the field of biocatalysis for lectures and discussions in the latest developments in the areas of enzyme discovery (environmental sampling and metagenomics, assay development and high-throughput screening, bioinformatics software and databases), enzyme characterization (structure analysis and modeling, elucidation of mechanism, molecular dynamics), biocatalyst design (rational design, directed evolution, emerging trends) as well as reaction and bioprocess engineering (non-conventional media, multi-step reactions, microreactors). All attendees are expected to contribute to the meeting, either by an oral or a poster presentation. |
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Multiple attendance discount: 3 or more members from the same lab are eligible for a discount. Please contact us. Multiple conference discount: We can offer you a discount if you wish to attend multiple conferences. Please contact us. |
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Biocatalysis conference 2012 schedule
| Tuesday December 4 | Wednesday December 5 | Thursday December 6 | Friday December 7 |
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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
Alexander Fulton (BioNoCo)
Systematic study of a model lipase towards stability in non-conventional media
Andre Jakoblinnert (Forschungszentrum GmbH IBG-1 Biotechnology )
Asymmetric ketone reduction and carboligation in neat substrates and pure organic solvents
Andrea Camattari (TU Graz)
Expression of fungal CYP52 in Pichia pastoris: screening development and bioconversion applications
Andreas Bommarius (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Status of the designability of industrial biocatalysts
Ania Fryszkowska (Chirotech Technology Centre)
Tailoring enzymes for industrial biocatalysts - a new coupled enzyme approach to α-amino acids
Arne Solbak (Verenium Corporation)
Bernd Nidetzky (Graz University of Technology)
Bettina Bommarius (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Data-driven de novo protein design
Colin Scott (CSIRO)
Intramolecular epistasis in the emergence of a new enzyme activity
David Berkowitz (University of Nebraska)
At the Biocatalysis/Chemocatalysis Interface
David Kwan (University of British Columbia)
Directed Evolution of a Blood Antigen-Cleaving Enzyme
Dick Janssen (Groningen University)
Computation- and simulation-supported directed evolution of enantioselective biocatalysts
Henk-Jan Joosten (Bio-Prodict)
The completion of the protein superfamily data-cycle and it's application to protein engineering.
Holger Zorn (University of Giessen)
Secretomes of Basidiomycetes as efficient tools for the valorization of lignocelluloses
Jason Micklefield (The University of Manchester)
Engineering enzymes for regioselective as well as stereoselective biocatalysis
Jennifer Littlechild (University of Exeter)
Thermophilic enzymes and their Application in Biocatalysis
Jörg Pietruszka (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Key Building Blocks via Enzyme-Mediated Synthesis
Justyna Kulig (Forschungszentrum J?lich GmbH)
Novel double recycling cascades with the potent Ca-stabilized alcohol dehydrogenase from Ralstonia sp.
Kurt Faber (University of Graz)
The Next Innovation Wave: Sulfatases and Decarboxylases
Maria Perez-Sanchez (RWTH)
Synthesis of optically active alfa-hydroxyketones in multi-step enzymatic reactions
Martin Rebros (Institute of Biotechnology and Food Science, Slovak University of technology)
Immobilization of microorganisms and enzymes to polyvinyl alcohol gel
Michael Puls (evocatal GmbH)
Michael van der Horst (University of Amsterdam)
Applications of a novel type of arylsulfate sulfotransferase from Desulfitobacterium hafniense
Philippe Demarche (Universite catholique de Louvain)
Biocatalysis for Environmental Clean Up: Past, Present and Future Developments
Pratul Agarwal (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Rene de Jong (DSM Biotechnology Center)
Robert Westphal (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH)
Integrated engineering of ThDP-dependent enzymes: Access to new chiral (S)-2-hydroxy ketones
Simon Willies (University of Manchester)
High-Throughput Screening of Transaminases
Stefan Lutz (Emory University)
New tricks with Old Yellow
Stefano Perni (University of Birmingham)
Improved biocatalytic performance of engineered biofilms of E. coli than planktonic counterparts
Steffen Krauser (Saarland University)
Multi-enzyme synthesis with permeabilised whole-cells
Tom Verhaeghe (UGent - Faculty of Bioscience Engineering)
Consensus Engineering as a Tool for Improving the Stability of Enzymes
Tracey Coady (PMBRC)
Biotransformations Using Nitrile Hydrolysing Enzymes for Stereoselective Organic Synthesis
Uttam Chand Banerjee (National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research)
Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of chiral drugs and drug intermediates
Uwe Bornscheuer (Greifswald University)
Protein Engineering on the Move from Directed Evolution to in Silico Approaches
Valerio Ferrario (University of Trieste)
3D-structure based analysis of catalytic sites of Serine-hydrolases by integrating modelling and multivariate statistics
Zbynek Prokop (Masaryk University)
What can protein engineers learn from transient kinetics?