Congratulations to Li Wan, Andrea Suárez Herrera, Rosie Graham, the three Lightning Talk Prize Winners at the 12th International Congress on Biocatalysis, 23rd -27th August 2026 at the TU Hamburg, Germany ! Alongside congress chair Andreas Liese, secretary and scientific committee member of European Society of Applied Biocatalysis (ESAB) Polona Žnidaršič Plazl awarded the winners.
Li Wan from the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, for the Lightning Talk entitled
Machine Learning Guided Design of an Unspecific Peroxygenase for Selective β-damascone Hydroxylation
Andrea Suárez Herrera from the Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya (IQAC-CSIC), Biological Chemistry, Barcelona, Spain, for the Lightning Talk entitled
Synthesis of tertiary alcohols via aldol reactions of ketones mediated by 2-oxoacid aldolases
Rosie Graham, from the iNANO Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, for the Lightning Talk
Dynamics-guided rational engineering of a thermostable PURase for enhanced hydrolysis of commercial polyurethane shoe foam
Congratulations and Best Wishes
