Scientific Program

 

Tuesday, Sept. 9

 

9:00
Welcome and Opening
Carsten Kettner

Evolution of Life through Catalysis

Session chair: Tobias Erb

9:20

Evolution of Thermodynamics: Metabolic Energies
Hans V. Westerhoff, The Universities of Amsterdam

10:00
Coenzymes as Connection between Mineral-based and Enzymatic Catalysis en route to Protometabolism
Martina Preiner, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology

10:40
Poster Lightning Talks
Poster numbers 1-7

11:10
Coffee break and Poster session

11:40
Origins of Life: First Came Enzymes and Proteins
Ken A. Dill, Stony Brook University

12:20
The Shape of Early Life: the Chemistry of Primitive Compartments
Claudia Bonfio, University of Cambridge

13:00
Lunch

Understanding New Principles in Enzyme Catalysis

Session chair: Karen N. Allen

14:00
The Winding Road to the Novel Mechanism of Microbial Ethylene-forming Enzyme
J. Martin Bollinger, Penn State University

14:40
Catalysis by Design - Computing Fundamental Chemical Reactivity
Bruno di Geronimo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

15:20
Poster Lightning Talks
Poster numbers 8-14

15:50
Conference photo, Coffee break and Poster session

16:20
Decoding Filament-dependent Oxidation of Cyclic Dipeptides
Clarissa M. Czekster, University of St. Andrews

17:00

FAIR Enzyme Kinetics Under Crowded Conditions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Johann M. Rohwer, University of Stellenbosch

17:40
The Universe of Enzymes and Computational Enzymology - From Beginnings to Today from a Personal Perspective
Dame Janet M. Thornton

18:20
Close

19:30
Dinner

 

Wednesday, Sept. 10

 

9:00
Opening

Exploiting the Catalytic Potential of Enzymes

Session chair: Reinhard Sterner

9:05
Making Glycans at the Membrane Interface
Karen N. Allen, Boston University

9:45
Mechanism-guided Engineering of Flavin-dependent and P450 Enzymes
Pimchai Chaiyen, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC)

10:25
Engineering Bottleneck Enzymes for Terpenoids Biosynthesis
Xixian Chen, A*STAR, Singapore

11:05
Coffee break

11:35
Synthetic Enzymology for Human and Planetary Health: Regio- and 4f Orbital Selectivities
Wen Shan Yew, National University of Singapore

12:15
STRENDA Guidelines and Database
Santiago Schnell, Dartmouth College, Hanover

13:00
Lunch

14:00 - 18:00
Excursion

19:30
Dinner

 

Thursday, Sept. 11

 

9:00
Opening

Expanding the Evolutionary Landscape of Catalysis

Session chair: Dame Janet Thornton

9:05
The BRENDA Enzyme Database on the Next Level at the DSMZ Digital Diversity
Antje Jäde,  Leibniz Institute - DSMZ

9:35
Engineering Protein Catalysts for Synthetic Applications
Rebecca Buller, University of Bern

10:15
Retracing the Rapid Evolution of an Herbicide-degrading Enzyme by Protein Engineering
Reinhard Sterner, University of Regensburg

10:55
Coffee break and Poster session

11:30
Design and Evolution of C1 Metabolism
James C. Liao, Academia Sinica, Taipei

12:10
The Role of Reaction Engineering in the Viability Evaluation of the Biocatalytic Processes
Zvjezdana Findrik Blazevic, University of Zagreb

13:00
Lunch

Building New Catalysts from Scratch

Session chair: Pimchai Chaiyen

14:00
Reinventing Carbon Fixation with Synthetic Biology
Tobias Erb, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg

14:40
Computational Discovery and Design of Novel Enzymes
Jiri Damborski, St. Anne's University Hospital, Brno

15:20
Coffee break

15:50
Evolution of Natural and Designer Enzymes: Simulations to Guide Biocatalyst Design and Engineering
Adrian J. Mulholland, University of Bristol

16:30
Building Enzymes with New Function
Anthony P. Green, The University of Manchester

17:10
Closing Remarks
Pimchai Chaiyen, Tobias Erb, and Carsten Kettner

19:30
Dinner

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