Programme


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beilstein
lodz
stenda

14th November 2024

Symposium Programme

Chairs: Roland Wohlgemuth (Lodz University of Technology); Carsten Kettner (Beilstein-Institut)

Time (CET)

09:00

Opening of the Symposium and Words of Welcome

09:20

The Need and Means for Standards in Enzymology
Dr. Carsten Kettner, Beilstein-Institut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

09:50

The EnzymeML Framework: Improving Efficiency and Quality of Biocatalytic Science
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pleiss, University of Stuttgart, Germany

10:20

Improving CAZyme Activity Descriptions
Prof. Dr. Bernard Henrissat, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

10:50

Coffee break

11:20

ExplorEnz - a System for the Classification of Enzyme Reactions
Dr. Andrew McDonald, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

10:50

A new Thermodynamics; this Time for Biology
Prof. Dr. Hans V. Westerhoff, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University of Manchester, UK; University of Stellenbosch, and Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Republic of South Africa

12:20

Research Data Management Activities in FAIRDOM and ELIXIR
Dr. Ulrike Wittig, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Enzyme Annotation in UniProtKB with Rhea and ChEBIactions
Dr. Alan Bridge, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland

13:30

Some Neglected Implications of Enzyme Kinetics for Applied Biocatalysis
Prof. Dr. Peter Halling, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

15:00

Enzyme Kinetics Meeting Modeling – Understanding Mechanisms and Predicting Enzyme Activity
Prof. Dr. Maciej Szaleniec, Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakòw, Poland

15:30

Coffee break

16:00

Chemo-enzymatic Synthesis of the Capsular Polysaccharides of the Human Pathogen Campylobacter jejuni
Prof. Dr. Frank M. Raushel, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

16:30

General Models for Predicting Substrates of Enzymes and Transport Proteins
Prof. Dr. Ryszard Ostaszewski, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

17:00

Closing Remarks
Prof. Dr. Roland Wohlgemuth and Dr. Carsten Kettner


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