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7th Workshop

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September 15–18, 2026

Hotel Jagdschloss Niederwald
Rüdesheim (Rhein)
Germany

The 7th EnzymeML Workshop will take place as an in-person meeting (with optional hybrid elements).

 

Scientific Organization:

Carsten Kettner / Beilstein-Institut

Jürgen Pleiss / University of Stuttgart, Germany

Katrin Rosenthal / University of Bielefeld, Germany

 

Stay tuned #EnzymeML2026

 

General Information

The workshop will take place in person at the Hotel Jagdschloss Niederwald in Rüdesheim (Rhein)
from September 15 to 18, 2026 
with the 15th and the 18th for traveling.

For the hands-on session, please refer to the information to be downloaded below.

On the 15th, the workshop will be officially opened after lunch at 13:30.

The scientific program will take place over two full days (Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th) and two half days (Tuesday, 15th) and will end on Friday, September 18 before lunch. Lunch is included in the conference package, and participants may leave after lunch.

The setting and the limited number of participants (ca. 30 persons) provide a very convivial atmosphere for the ready exchange of thoughts and ideas.

The language of the workshop is English.

The dress of the meeting is casual/informal.

Photographs may be taken during the meeting which subsequently may be published on the Beilstein-Institut website and in our social media channels.

Housing

Registered participants are requested to make their bookings before 1 July, 2026. Please note that there is only a limited number of rooms in our allocation. Accommodation costs must be settled directly with the hotel by the participants and can be reimbursed together with your travel expenses through COZYME.

You can contact the hotel either by telephone
(+49-(0)6722-71060) or by email (jagdschloss@niederwald.de).
Please do not book your room via booking platforms or via the booking service of the Hotel Jagdschloss Niederwald as these booking requests do not consider our allocation and will report back that no rooms will be available at these times.

Please use the following booking code: EnzymeML Workshop.

For registered participants, the Beilstein-Institut will cover the conference package which includes all meals, coffee breaks and the admission to the conference room from lunch on the 15th until lunch on the 18th.
Extras such as drinks, telephone calls etc. are excluded.

Registration

 

All participants are requested to register with the registration form sent out by personal mail. 

When you register for the workshop, you declare your consent with our Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions which is available here.

Declaration of Agreement - Data Protection

 

Due to data protection rules we are asking for your permission for storing and using your contact details as provided in your registration form for purposes defined in the form. Please complete, sign and return this form together with the registration form to the address given.

Scientific Program

Tuesday, September 15


Travel and arrival of the participants

12:00
Lunch

13:30
Welcome and Overview on EnzymeML Activities
Jürgen Pleiss

14:00
Hands-on Session #1

Data Acquisition by the EnzymeML Suite
Jan Range, Max Häussler, Sascha Gabriel

17:00
Close

17:15
Excursion

19:30
Dinner

Wednesday, September 16


9:00
Hands-on session #2

Kinetic Modelling of Enzyme Catalyzed Reactions
Jan Range, Max Häussler, Sascha Gabriel

12:30
Lunch

Session 3: Scenarios from the Task Forces

14:00
Integrating EnzymeML into the development of mathematical models for biocatalytic reactions
Martina Zudar, University of Zagreb

14:30
tba
Johann Rohwer, University of Stellenbosch, and Torsten Giess, University of Bielefeld

15:00
tba

15:30
Coffee break

16:00
AI-driven data acquisition
Carsten Kettner, Jan Range

16:30
Parsing into STRENDA Biocatalysis Guidelines
Amalie Vang Høst and Jan-Niklas Schwarz, University of Bielefeld

17:00
ChromHandler
Jan Niklas Schwarz, University of Bielefeld

17:30
EnzymeML and FAIRFluids - combining two analysis frameworks
Sascha Gabriel, University of Stuttgart

18:00
End of session 3

19:30
Dinner


Thursday, September 17


Session 4: Reporting and modelling
of enzyme reactions

 

9:00
Possible new directions linking
biocatalysis and STRENDA

Andreas Bommarius, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta

9:40
Mutual landscapes of enzymatic solvent
preference

Xenia Georgiadou, Technical University Graz

10:00
tba

10:20
Coffee break and Workshop photo

11:00
Kinetic and structural investigation of
eugenol oxidase variants

Tobias Rapsch, University of Bochum

11:40
Same data, different parameters:
how estimation methods shape
kinetic models

Thomas Waluga, TU Hamburg

12:00
Optimal design of time course
experiments for enzyme kinetics

Santiago Schnell, Dartmough College,
Hanover

12:20
End of session 4

12:30
Lunch


Thursday (ctd.)


Session 5: Beyond enzyme reactions: databases, machine learning, bioinformatics, process design, ontologies...

14:00
ProteusAI: A user-friendly app for AI-based protein engineering
Carlos Acevedo-Rocha, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby

14:40
A STRENDA-compliant DCAT profile for linked datasets
Alexander Sommer-Behr and Marc Völkenrath, Technical University Dortmund

15:00
20 years of SABIO-RK: re-implementing a curated biochemical reaction kinetics resource
Ulrike Wittig, Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies

15:20
Coffee break

16:00
tba
Mehdi Davari, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle

16:40
tba

17:00
Resolving enzymatic mechanisms for ligand-binding experimental data using machine learning
Martin Richter, Masaryk University, Brno

17:20
Tested knowledge - a proposal
Frank Hollmann, Technical University Delft

17:40
End of session 5

19:30
Dinner


Friday, September 18


Session 6: STRENDA Biocatalsis Guidelines

 

9:00
Considerations for use of terminology and nomenclature in biocatalysis to ensure access and machine readability
John Woodley, Technical University of Denmark, Lynby

9:20
STRENDA Biocatalysis Guidelines; whee we are and were to go
Katrin Rosenthal, University of Bielefeld

9:40
Discussion
Katrin Rosenthal, Dörte Rother

11:00
Coffee break

11:30
EnzymeML - next steps
Katrin Rosenthal, Jürgen Pleiss

12:00
End of session 6

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Departure