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Roland Wohlgemuth and Jennifer Littlechild
09:00	Opening of the 3rd ESAB CONGRESS and Welcome
09:10	PLENARY LECTURE European Bioeconomy: Policy Landscape and role of Research and Innovation Tomasz Calikowski, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
09:40	COFFEE BREAK
09:50	KEYNOTE LECTURE From Nature to Industry: Enzyme Engineering as the Key Enabler for Biocatalytic Innovation Dr. Andreas Vogel, c-LEcta, a Kerry company, Leipzig. Germany
10:15	An Innovative Pathway to Coenzymes: Expanding the Enzymatic Toolbox Dr. Louis Mouterde, Biotechnology Team, URD ABI – AgroParisTech, Pomacle, France
10:35	POSTER PRESENTATION: Isocitrate lyase enzymatic engineering Adrián Martínez Vivancos, University of Murcia, Spain
10:40	POSTER PRESENTATION: Catalytic Properties of Immobilized Limonene-1,2-Epoxide Hydrolase Katarína Kaniaková, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
10:45	Coffee Break
11:00	Biocatalytic Upcycling of Waste Cooking Oil into Sustainable Emulsifiers Dr. Marina Simona Robescu, Department of Drug Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy
11:20	Biocatalysis Under Pressure; Development of a transaminase/lipase cascade using a combined immobilised enzyme/by-product removal strategy Lisa Kennedy, Chemistry Department, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
11:40	Biocatalytic cascade for combined conversion of CO2 and lignocellulose derived phenols into carboxylic acids Prof. Dr. Maria Elena Russo, Department of Chemical, Materials, and Industrial Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
12:00	PLENARY LECTURE Process Intensification Strategies in Biocatalysis for Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing Prof. Dr. Andreas Liese, Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
12:30	LUNCH BREAK

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Roland Wohlgemuth, Jennifer Littlechild and Willi Meier
14:00	PLENARY LECTURE Enzymatic toolbox for noncanonical amino acid building blocks Dr. Birgit Kosjek, MSD, USA Affiliation
14:30	COFFEE BREAK
14:45	KEYNOTE LECTURE BIOCATALYTIC OXIDATIONS: FROM SCREENING TO PILOT PLANT TO SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS Dr. Martin Schürmann, InnoSyn B.V., Geleen, The Netherlands,
15:10	Development and implementation at 200kg scale of a transamination process Jean-Marc Henry, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
15:30	Boosting Selectivity in Biocatalysis: Enzyme-Driven Advances in AZD5462 Synthesis Katherine Hooper, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
15:50	COFFEE BREAK
16:00	PLENARY LECTURE Biocatalysis in sustainable drug discovery and development – evolving perspective from pharmaceutical industry Dr. Ania Fryszkowska, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland
16:30	POSTER SESSION ▪ Application of PEP-dependent Synthases for the Synthesis of Sialic Acid Analogs - Karlo Borović, Department of Reaction Engineering and Catalysis, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Croatia ▪ Influence of pfkA and oppA genes in E. coli antibiotic resistance - Beatriz Gomariz Turpin, University of Murcia, Spain ▪ Enzymatic aldehyde synthesis mediated by carboxylic acid reductase - Ana-Katarina Marić, Department of Reaction Engineering and Catalysis, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Croatia ▪ FURFURYLAMINE SYNTHESIS IN A MAGNETIC FIELD-ASSISTED MICROREACTOR USING IMMOBILIZED AMINE TRANSAMINASE - Marko Božinović, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia ▪ Optimizing Lipase Immobilization on Tailored Silica Supports – A Promising Alternative for Industrial Biocatalysis - Caio De Carvalho, Ecovyst Inc, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States of America
17:30	END

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Francisc Peter and Stanislaw Bielecki
09:00	WELCOME
09:10	PLENARY LECTURE Phosphorylases as useful biocatalysts for precision synthesis of functional polysaccharide materials Prof. Dr. Jun-ichi Kadokawa, Kagoshima University, Japan
09:40	COFFEE BREAK
09:50	KEYNOTE LECTURE Enzyme applications for synthetic polymer chemistry Prof. Dr. Alessandro Pellis, University of Genova, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, Genova, Italy
10:15	Computational Modeling of Enzymatic Reaction Mechanisms and Selectivities Prof. Dr. Xiang Sheng, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China
10:35	POSTER PRESENTATION: Protein dynamics and the temperature adaptation of enzyme catalysis: simulations of wild type and mutants MalL Marvellous Arabambi, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
10:40	POSTER PRESENTATION: Continuous tyramine synthesis in a microreactor with immobilized thermostable tyrosine decarboxylase Patrik Hlebanja, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
10:45	COFFEE BREAK
11:00	VERSATILE NANOENCAPSULATION PLATFORM FOR THE STABILIZATION AND ORAL DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC ENZYMES Dr. Daniel Abella López, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
11:20	Biodegradation and Upcycling of Bioplastics and Paper Waste by Streptomyces microflavus DG19 Assistant Research Prof. Dr. Brana Pantelic, Marija Nenadovic, Marijana Ponjavic, Anton Agapov, Marija Nicevic, Prof. Dr. Jasmina Nikodinovic-Runic, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Chemistry, Belgrade, Serbia
11:40	Engineering of the Material-Binding Peptides for Accelerating the Enzymatic Degradation of Polylactic Acid Pedram Pourmikaeil, Institute of Biotechnology (Bio VI), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
12:00	PLENARY LECTURE HOW ENZYMES CAN BE A SOLUTION AT THE END OF LIFE OF PLASTICS Prof. Dr. Alain Marty, INSA, University of Toulouse, France
12:30	KEYNOTE LECTURE Biocatalysis for circular polymers Prof. Dr. Per-Olof Syren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
12:50	LUNCH BREAK

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Roland Wohlgemuth and Zvjezdana Findrik Blazevic
14:00	PLENARY LECTURE Characterization of enzyme activity by high-throughput, untargeted metabolomics Prof. Dr. Nicola Zamboni, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
14:30	COFFEE BREAK
14:45	KEYNOTE LECTURE Hydrogenase Activity of Tungsten Aldehyde Oxidoreductase. Investigation of Reaction Mechanism Prof. Dr. Maciej Szaleniec, Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Science, Krakow, Poland
15:10	C1-Trophy in Yeast: Engineering and Evolution of the Reductive Glycine Pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains Dr. Viswanada Reddy Bysani Kondagari, Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering - Industrial Biotechnology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
15:30	Redefining C–C Bond Cleavage via Engineered AMDase with a de novo Edge Bruno Di Geronimo, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States of America
15:50	COFFEE BREAK
16:00	PLENARY LECTURE Assessing the Role of Biomass and Other Feed Stocks in a Future Bioeconomy Prof. Dr. Gregory Stephanopoulos, MIT, Cambridge, United States of America
16:30	POSTER SESSION ▪ Evolution, and substrate promiscuity of Campylobacter jejuni periplasmic nitrate Reductase - Maciej Szaleniec, Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Science, Krakow, Poland ▪ Kinetics of the biosynthesis of piperazic acid by two actinobacterial piperazate synthases - Lan Julij Zadravec, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia ▪ Microfluidics-based generation of uniform and highly active glucose oxidase crosslinked nanoaggregates - Žiga Gerdina, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana. Slovenia ▪ USING MACHINE LEARNING TO STUDY PROPERTIES OF MELANIN DIMERS - Gopi Krishnan Ravindran, Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis, University of Girona, Spain
17:30	END

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Polona Znidarsic Plazl and Elisabeth Jacobsen
09:00	WELCOME
09:10	PLENARY LECTURE BIOCATALYSIS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF THERAPEUTIC OLIGONUCLEOTIDES Dr. Serena Bisagni, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland
09:40	COFFEE BREAK
09:50	KEYNOTE LECTURE Novel biocatalytic strategies for RNA therapeutics synthesis Dr. Jill Caswell, Almac Sciences, Craigavon, Northern Ireland
10:15	Streamlined enzymatic routes to RNA/DNA building blocks, and other relevant nucleotide analogs Dr. Maryke Fehlau, BioNukleo GmbH, Berlin, Germany
10:35	POSTER PRESENTATION: Kinetic modeling of PPK-2-III–catalysed ATP synthesis for use in biocatalytic cascades Anđela Radan, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
10:40	Benchmarking a novel ultra-high throughput screening technique for lipolytic activity using double emulsions and fluorescence activated sorting Ana Caeiro, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, University of Gent, Gent, Belgium
11:00	Quantification of Glucose with an Automated UV-LED Microfluidic Fluorimeter Oleksii Ustinov, Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, Department of Neonatology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
11:20	AMORPHOUS ZIF MATERIAL FOR ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION AS A ZIF-8 ALTERNATIVE Paloma Lafuente Magro, Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica, Madrid, Spain
11:40	Characterization of an Amide Bond Synthetase for Selective Amidation Dr. Tadej Menegatti, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
12:00	PLENARY LECTURE The best of all worlds: combining microbial cell factories with enzymatic and chemical synthesis steps Prof. Dr. Dörte Rother, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG), Biotechnology (IBG-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
12:30	LUNCH BREAK

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Frangiskos Kolisis and Jennifer Littlechild
14:00	PLENARY LECTURE Enzyme Discovery, Engineering and Applications in Biocatalysis Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Uwe T. Bornscheuer, University of Greifswald, Germany
14:30	COFFEE BREAK
14:45	KEYNOTE LECTURE ‚Big Data‘ Biocatalysis: Broad and Systematic Screening of IRED Performance in Reductive Amination Sarah A. Berger ^a, Christopher Grimm ^a, Isabel Oroz-Guinea ^ab, Stephan Vrabl ^a, Marco Cespugli ^c, Andreas Krassnigg ^c, Tobias Schopper ^c, Irene Marzuoli ^d, Bettina M. Nestl ^c, Georg Steinkellner ^c, Christian C. Gruber ^c, Hans Iding ^d, Kurt Puentener ^d, Francis Gosselin ^e, Serena Bisagni ^d, Wolfgang Kroutil ^ab, Priv.-Doz. Dr. Joerg Schrittwieser ^a ^a Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Graz, Austria ^b Field of Excellence “BioHealth”, University of Graz, Graz, Austria ^c Innophore GmbH, Graz, Austria ^d F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Process Chemistry and Catalysis, Basel, Switzerland ^e Genentech, Inc., Department of Small Molecule Process Chemistry, South San Francisco, California, United States
15:10	Whole-cell biotransformation fueled by photosynthetic ATP in a cyanobacterium Dr. Giovanni Loprete ^a, Dr. Marina Simona Robescu ^b, Prof. Dr. Daniela Ubiali ^b, Prof. Dr. Elisabetta Bergantino ^a ^a Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy ^b Department of Drug Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
15:30	KEYNOTE LECTURE Biocatalytic conversions of monolignols into fragrance & flavour compounds Univ. Prof. Priv. Doz. Dr. Florian Rudroff, TU Wien, Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna, Austria
15:50	COFFEE BREAK
16:00	PLENARY LECTURE The Road to Animal-Free animal biopolymers: Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans and Spider Silk Protein Prof. Dr. Matteos Koffas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
16:30	Closure of the 3rd ESAB CONGRESS

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