Plenaries
Plenary Speakers
We are pleased to introduce high-ranking plenary speaker from all over the world, from industry and from academia.
Monday, November 24, 09:10
Tomasz Calikowski
Title: European Bioeconomy: Policy Landscape and role of Research and Innovation
European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Monday, November 24, 12:00
Prof. Dr. Andreas Liese
Germany
Title: Trocess Intensification Strategies in Biocatalysis for Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing
Head of the Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
Monday, November 24, 14:00
Dr. Birgit Kosjek
USA
Title: Enzymatic toolbox for noncanonical amino acid building blocks
Principal Scientist, Process R&D Enabling Technologies, MSD, Rahway, NJ, USA
Monday, November 24, 16:00
Dr. Ania Fryszkowska
Switzerland
Title: Biocatalysis in sustainable drug discovery and development – evolving perspective from pharmaceutical industry
Bioreactions Team Leader, Global Discovery Chemistry, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland
Tuesday, November 25, 09:10
Prof. Dr. Jun-ichi Kadokawa
Japan
Title: Phosphorylases as useful biocatalysts for precision synthesis of functional polysaccharide materials
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
Tuesday, November 25, 12:00
Dr. Alain Marty
France
Title: HOW ENZYMES CAN BE A SOLUTION AT THE END OF LIFE OF PLASTICS
TBI, INSA Toulouse, France
Tuesday, November 25, 14:00
Prof. Dr. Nicola Zamboni
Switzerland
Title: Characterization of enzyme activity by high-throughput, untargeted metabolomics
Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Tuesday, November 25, 16:00
Prof. Dr. Gregory Stephanopoulos
USA
Title: Assessing the Role of Biomass and Other Feed Stocks in a Future Bioeconomy
MIT, Cambridge, United States of America
Wednesday, November 26, 09:10
Dr. Serena Bisagni
Switzerland
Title: BIOCATALYSIS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF THERAPEUTIC OLIGONUCLEOTIDES
Process Chemistry & Catalysis, Synthetic Molecules Technical Development, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland
Wedesday, November 26, 12:00
Prof. Dr. Dörte Rother
Germany
Title: The best of all worlds: combining microbial cell factories with enzymatic and chemical synthesis steps
Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG), Biotechnology (IBG-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Wedesday, November 26, 14:00
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Uwe T. Bornscheuer
Germany
Title: Enzyme Discovery, Engineering and Applications in Biocatalysis
Institute of Biochemistry, Dept. of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
Wednesday, November 26, 16:00
Prof. Dr. Matteos Koffas
USA
Title: The Road to Animal-Free animal biopolymers: Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans and Spider Silk Protein
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA