Scientific Program

Tuesday, Sept. 21

 

9.00 (CEST)
(2.00 CDT, 3 EDT, 8.00 BST, 15.00 CST, 16.00 KST/JST)

Opening and Introductory Remarks
Carsten Kettner

Session Chair: Ming-Daw Tsai

9.20
Synthetic Metabolism: From Evolution to Design, and Back to Evolution
James C. Liao

9.50
Enzymes from Non-model Organisms and their Gene Expression with "α-helix" and "Hydropathy Contradiction" Rules
Yasuhisha Asano

10.20
Kinetics of Enzymatic De-symmetrisation of Prochiral Substrates
Peter Hallling

10.50
Multi-scale Modelling of Host-microbe Co-metabolism
Ines Thiele

11.20
Discussion and Networking Session

12.20
Poster Flash Talk Session 1
Chaired by: Ming-Daw Tsai

13.00
Break

Session Chair: Joelle N. Pelletier

15.00 (CEST)
(8.00 CDT, 9.00 EDT, 14.00 BST, 21.00 CST, 22.00 KST/JST)

Structure-guided Insight into Function, Mechanism and Evolution of Enzymes in Bacterial Glycoconjugate Synthesis
Karen N. Allen

15.30
Multiplexing Small-molecule Metabolism
Thomas S. Leyh

16.00
Biosynthesis of the Capsular Polysaccharide from Campylobacter jejuni
Frank M. Raushel

16.30
De novo Enzyme Cascades for Organic Synthesis
Sabine Flitsch

17.00
Discussion and Networking Session

18.00
Close

 

Wednesday, Sept. 22

Session Chair: Roland Wohlgemuth

9.00 (CEST)
(2.00 CDT, 3 EDT, 8.00 BST, 15.00 CST, 16.00 KST/JST)

Opening

9.10
Watching a DNA Photolyse Undergoing Photoactivation and DNA Repair by Time-resolved Serial Femtosecond X-ray Crystallography
Ming-Daw Tsai

9.40
High-resolution CryoEM of Energy-converting Membrane Protein Complexes
Werner Kühlbrandt

10.10
How do we Find New Functional Proteins in Sequence Space?
Florian Hollfelder

10.40
Deploying Directed Evolution for Synthetic Biology: Case Studies in Material and Menthol Biosynthesis
Andrew Currin

11.10
Discussion and Networking Session

12.10
Poster Flash Talk Session 2
Chaired by: Roland Wohlgemuth

12.45
Break

Session Chair: Jürgen Pleiss

15.00 (CEST)
(8.00 CDT, 9.00 EDT, 14.00 BST, 21.00 CST, 22.00 KST/JST)

Development of Biocatalytic Reactions - an Engineering Approach
Zvjezdana Findrik Blazevic

15.30
From Raspberry Flavor to Anti-cancer Drugs: Teaching Nature's Catalysts New Tricks
Joelle N. Pelletier

16.00
Kinetic Modelling of Beta-lactam Synthesizing Enzymes
Andreas S. Bommarius

16.30
DNA-dynamics-driven Mutagenesis: How DNA Directs its own Copying Errors
Hashim Murthada Al-Hashimi

17.00
Time Travel to the Past and Future - Evolution of Energy Landscapes for Enzyme Catalysis
Dorothee Kern

17.30
Discussion and Networking Session

18.30
Close

Thursday, Sept. 23

Session Chair: Zvjezdana Findrik Blazevic

9.00 (CEST)
(2.00 CDT, 3 EDT, 8.00 BST, 15.00 CST, 16.00 KST/JST)

Opening

9.10
Oxidoreducatases for Isoflavonoid Bioconversion
Byung-Gee Kim

9.40
Photoenzymatic Decarboxylation Reactions - Scope and (Current) Limitations
Frank Hollmann

10.10
Reaction Engineering Challenges with Oxidases
John M. Woodley

10.40
Applications of Systems Biocatalysis for the Synthesis of Metabolites
Roland Wohlgemuth

11.10
Discussion and Networking Session

12.15
Break

Session Chair: Andreas Bommarius

15.00 (CEST)
(8.00 CDT, 9.00 EDT, 14.00 BST, 21.00 CST, 22.00 KST/JST)

The Imprecise Reproducibility of the Michaelis Constant Measurements in Enzyme Kinetics
Santiago Schnell

15.30
Integrating Knowledge on Enzymes and Analysis Tools
Maria-Jesus Martin

16.00
The EnzymeML Toolbox: F.A.I.R. Management and Modelling of Enzymatic Data
Jürgen Pleiss

16.30
Discussion and Networking Session

17.30
Conclusions and close