Scientific Program

 

Tuesday, Sept. 12

 

9:00
Welcome and Opening
Carsten Kettner

Session chair: Jürgen Pleiss

9:20
Enzyme Kinetics: Still a Valuable Tool for Shedding Light on Regulation, Mechanism, and Even Structure
María Luz Cárdenas, Athel Cornish-Bowden, CNRS-BIP, Marseille

10:10
Enzymology Under New-to-nature Conditions
John Woodley, Technical University Denmark

10:50
Poster Lightning Talks
Poster numbers 1,3,4,5

11:15
Coffee break and Poster session

11:45
Thermodynamic Considerations on Enzyme Kinetics in Biochemical Reaction Networks
Edda Klipp, Humboldt University Berlin

12:25
Elucidation of the Biosynthetic Pathways for the Construction of the Capsular Polysaccharides in the Human Pathogen Campylobacter jejuni
Frank Raushel, Texas A&M University

13:05
Lunch

Session chair: John Richard

14:20
A Tail of Tails - The Remarkable SULT2B1b
Thomas S. Leyh, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine

15:00
Coenzyme A Metabolism in Inherited Disorders of Fatty-acid Metabolism
Barbara Bakker, University Medical Center Groningen

15:40
Poster Lightning Talks
Poster numbers 6-11

16:10
Conference photo, Coffee break and Poster session

16:40
When Nature Stumbles on a Good Thing: From Promiscuous Binding to Essential Enzyme Activity
Joelle Pelletier, Université de Montréal

17:20
(Re)designing Enzymes as Therapeutics and Biosensors
Karen Allen, Boston University

18:00
Evolution of Energy Landscapes and its Exploitation for Enzyme and Drug Design
Dorothee Kern, Brandeis University

18:40
Close

19:30
Dinner

 

Wednesday, Sept. 13

 

9:00
Opening

Session chair: Santiago Schnell

9:05
Stepping into the Universe of Proteoforms
Hartmut Schlüter, University Medical Center Hamburg

9:45
Reinventing Pathways: Convergent Evolution of Specialized Metabolites in Flowering Plants
Tobias Köllner, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena

10:25
Poster Lightning Talk
Poster number 2

10:40
Coffee break

11:10
Predicting the Effects of Mutations in Proteins by Data-driven Methods
Stanislav Mazurenko, Masaryk University, Brno

11:50
The EnzymeML Toolbox: Digitalization of Biocatalysis by Scalable Workflows and FAIR Data
Jürgen Pleiss, University of Stuttgart

12:30
STRENDA: What, Why, How and Where to?
Johann Rohwer, University of Stellenbosch

13:10
Lunch

14:00 - 18:00
Excursion

19:30
Dinner

 

Thursday, Sept. 14

 

9:00
Opening

Session chair: Edda Klipp

9:05
Approaches to the Design of Protein Folds and Functions
Birte Höcker, University of Bayreuth

9:45
Can we Computationally Design Efficient Enzymes?
Sílvia Osuna, Universitat de Girona

10:25
Software Lightning Talk

10:45
Coffee break

11:15
Design Meets Evolution: Theory and Practice for Fine-tuned Bioengineering
Victor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid

11:55
Use of Mechanistic Understanding to Improve Enzyme Performance
Pimchai Chaiyen, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Rayong

12:35
Enzymes for Sustainable Biomanufacturing - Expanding the Molecular Repertoire and Getting there Faster
Ee Lui Ang, A-STAR, Singapore

13:15
Lunch

Session chair: Joelle Pelletier

14:30
Features and Adaptation Strategies of Cold-active Enzymes
Marina Lotti, University of Milano

15:10
Improvement of α-amino Ester Hydrolase Stability via Computational Protein Design
Andreas Bommarius, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

15:50
Coffee break

16:20
Tuning Multi-enzyme Catalysed processes – Modular Set-up, Activity Regulation, and Integration with Microbial and Chemical Transformations
Dörte Rother, Research Center Jülich

17:00
Biocatalysis and Beyond: Developing (Photo)enzymatic Strategies for more Sustainable Synthesis
Sandy Schmidt, University of Groningen

17:40
Photocatalytic Enzymes by Design and Evolution
Adrian Bunzel, ETH Zürich

18:20
Closing Remarks
Carsten Kettner

19:30
Dinner

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