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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 TBA
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 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
12:00	PLENARY LECTURE TBA Prof. Dr. Andreas Liese, Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
12:30	LUNCH BREAK

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14:00	PLENARY LECTURE TBA Dr. Ania Fryszkowska, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland
14:30	COFFEE BREAK
14:45	KEYNOTE LECTURE TBA
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 Enzymatic toolbox for noncanonical amino acid building blocks Dr. Birgit Kosjek, MSD, USA Affiliation
16:30	POSTER SESSION
17:30	END

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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 TBA
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
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	TBA
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	LUNCH BREAK

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14:00	PLENARY LECTURE Characterization of enzyme activity by high-throughput, untargeted metabolomics
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
17:30	END

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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 TBA
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	POSTER PRESENTATION
10:45	COFFEE BREAK
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 TBA 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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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 TBA
15:10	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
15:30	TBA
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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ESAB is now registered in the Transparency Register
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The Transparency Registration number 002504399144-30.
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Institutional membership has been established as a new membership category. Academic, governmental, research and other public Institutions as well as private companies based inside or outside Europe and whose activities are related to the field of applied biocatalysis, are welcome to apply for Institutional Membership.
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