4th Swiss-German-Japanese Workshop on 
Biocatalysis and Bioprocess Development

Preliminary Program

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Wednesday, June 25
15.00 - 16.00
Registration
16.15 - 16.45
KL-1
Haruyuki Atomi
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

UNIQUE ENZYMES INVOLVED IN AMINO ACID CONVERSION IN HYPERTHERMOPHILIC ARCHAEA

16.45 - 17.00
SL-1
Peter Neubauer
TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

ADVANCING BIOPROCESSING AND BIOCATALYSIS WITH SELF-DRIVING LABS: FROM MODEL-BASED DESIGN TO DEEP PROCESS INSIGHT

17.00 - 17.15
SL-2
Kathrin Castiglione
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

EFFICIENT RECOMBINANT PRODUCTION OF A PET-DEPOLYMERIZING CUTINASE AND ITS IMMOBILIZATION USING STIMULUS-RESPONSIVE POLYMERS

17.15 - 17.30
SL-3
Ren Wei
University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

DISCOVERY AND ENGINEERING OF NOVEL POLYURETHANE HYDROLASES

17.30 - 17.45
SL-4
Michael Richter
Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology, Straubing, Germany

PROTEINS - A VALUABLE PLATFORM RESOURCE FOR BIOCATALYTIC TAILORING TOWARDS SPECIALTY CHEMICALS

17.45 - 18.00
SL-5
Jan Marienhagen
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

DEVELOPMENT OF BIOSENSORS FOR THE INTRACELLULAR DETECTION OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND THEIR APPLICATION USING FLUORESCENCE-ACTIVATED CELL SORTING

18.00 - 20.00
Welcome Reception @ ship MS Stubnitz (Start at Museumshafen)
Thursday, June 26
09.00 - 10.00
Optional Excurison to Dom St. Nikolai (per pedes)
10.30 - 11.00
KL-2
Vlada B. Urlacher
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

LATE-STAGE OXYFUNCTIONALIZATION WITH CYTOCHROMES P450

11.00 - 11.15
SL-6
David Schönauer
Aminoverse B.V., Nuth, Netherlands

BENCHMARKING A NOVEL AI PLATFORM AGAINST IN SILICO DESIGNS

11.15 - 11.30
SL-7
Natsuko Miura
Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan

DESIGNER ENZYME CONDENSATES FOR TUNABLE BIOCATALYSIS

11.30 - 11.45
SL-8
Robert Kourist
Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib GmbH), Graz, Austria

ENZYME ENGINEERING OF A MEMBRANE-BOUND MONOOXYGENASE AS KEY STEP OF AN ARTIFICIAL METABOLIC PATHWAY TOWARDS TULIPALIN A

 

11.45 - 12.00
SL-9
Michiki Takeuchi
Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan

ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF MICROBIAL INDIGO-REDUCTION

12.00 - 12.15
SL-10
Gladwin Suryatin Alim
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

MOLYBDOENZYME MEDIATES CARBON-SULFUR BOND MAKING AND BREAKING IN ERGOTHIONEINE BIOSYNTHESIS

12.15 - 12.30
SL-11
Ryotaro Hara
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

SCREENING OF MICROBIAL ENZYMES FOR THE PRODUCTION PROCESS OF NATURAL AND NON-NATURAL S-SUBSTITUTED CYSTEINE SULFOXIDES

12.30 - 13.30
Lunch
13.30 - 13.45
SL-12
Erik de Vries
BRAIN Biotech AG, Zwingenberg, Germany

METXTRA DNA DATABASE – DEVELOPING A BUSINESS MODEL

13.45 - 14.00
SL-13
Ken'ichiro Matsumoto
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

NON-TEMPLATE-DEPENDENT BIOSYNTHESIS OF BLOCK COPOLYESTERS

14.00 - 14.15
SL-14
Volker Wendisch
CeBiTec, Bielefeld, Germany

EXTENSION OF AROMATIC METABOLISM FOR SUSTAINABLE FERMENTATION BY Corynebacterium glutamicum

14.15 - 14.30
SL-15
Takaaki Sato
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

IDENTIFICATION OF LIPOATE BIOSYNTHESIS SYSTEM IN HYPERTHERMOPHILIC ARCHAEA

14.30 - 14.45
SL-16
Tobias Heinks
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

USING TRANSAMINASES AS DEHALOGENASES?

14.45 - 14.55
SL-17
Nina Barua
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

FERMENTATION PRODUCTION OF EICOSAPNTAENOIC ACID (EPA)-RICH OIL AT ORDINARY TEMPERATURES THROUGH MOLECULAR BREEDING OF THE OLEAGINOUS FUNGUS Mortierella alpina

14.55 - 15.05
SL-18
Htun Inzali
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

ISOLATION OF NITRIFYING BACTERIA AND DESIGN OF A SIMPLIFIED SYNTHETIC NITRIFYING MICROBIAL ECOSYSTEM

15.05 - 15.15
SL-19
Taito Tsukimata
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

STUDIES ON RED PROTEINS PRODUCED BY HALOMONAS SP. KM-1

15.15 - 15.25
SL-20
Hideaki Satani
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

MICROORGANISM SCREENING FOR EFFICIENT SPHINGOLIPIDS PRODUCTION

15.25 - 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.15
SL-21
Kazunori Yoshida
Amano Enzyme Inc., Gifu, Japan

ENGINEERING OF INNOVATIVE PROTEIN-GLUTAMINASE FOR PLANT-BASED FOOD APPLICATION

16.15 - 16.30
SL-22
Philipp Süss
Enzymicals AG, Greifswald, Germany

INDUSTRIAL BIOCATALYSIS - FROM MG TO TON SCALE

16.30 - 16.45
SL-23
Rolf Schmid
Bio4Business, Stuttgart, Germany

‘NET ZERO’ EMISSIONS FROM EUROPE’S CHEMICAL INDUSTRY - STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES

16.45 - 17.00
SL-24
Daniel Ohde
Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

REACTION ENGINEERING OF AN ENZYME CASCADE FOR SYNTHESIS OF UDP-GlcNAc

17.00 - 17.15
SL-25
Jun Ogawa
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES ON GUT MICROBIAL DIETARY COMPONENT METABOLISMS AND ITS APPLICATION TO HEALTH PROMOTION

17.15 - 17.30
SL-26
Johannes Kabisch
NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

BACTERIAL SPORES AS AN AMYLOID PRODUCTION PLATFORM

17.30 - 17.45
SL-27
Ryota Kumokita
KANEKA Corporation, Hyogo, Japan

KANEKA BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER GREEN PLANET™: BIODEGRADABLE PHBH AS CONVENTIONAL PLASTIC ALTERNATIVE

17.45 - 18.00
SL-28
Joerg Pietruszka
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Jülich, Germany

TRANSFERASES IN THE SYNTHESIS OF PYRROLOINDOLES

18.00 - 18.15
SL-29
Guiyeoul Lim
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

INTEGRATED ELECTRO-BIOCATALYSIS FOR CHEMICAL PRODUCTION IN FLOW SYSTEMS

18.30 - 19.00
Workshop Photo
19.00 - 22.00
Banquet Brasserie Hermann (https://www.brasseriehermann.de/ Gützkower Straße 1)
Friday, June 27
09.00 - 09.15
SL-30
Hans Iding
F.Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland

ENGINEERED (S)-TRANSAMINASE APPLIED IN AN ORGANIC SOLVENT

09.15 - 09.30
SL-31
Yasuhisa Asano
Toyama Prefectural University, Toyama, Japan

TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF THREE PHARMACEUTICALS - UTILIZATION OF INTERMEDIATES OBTAINED BY HYDROXYNITRILE LYASE

 

09.30 - 09.45
SL-32
Marc Nowaczyk
University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

PHOTOSYTEM I-DRIVEN IN VITRO BIOCATALYSIS

09.45 - 10.00
SL-33
Carolin Mügge
Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

CYTOCHROME P450 FUSION CONSTRUCTS IN OXYFUNCTIONALIZATION REACTIONS

10.00 - 10.15
SL-34
Kohsuke Honda
The University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan

IN VITRO RECONSTITUTION OF NON-OXIDATIVE GLYCOLYSIS USING THERMOPHILIC ENZYMES AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO COFACTOR REGENERATION AND SYNTHESIS

10.15 - 10.30
SL-35
Martin J. Weissenborn
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

EVOLVING AND DESIGNING SELECTIVE PEROXYGENASES

10.30 - 10.45
SL-36
Sarah Westarp
Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

BIOCATALYTIC SYNTHESIS OF NUCLEOSIDE AND NUCLEOTIDE ANALOGUES

10.45 - 11.15
Coffee Break
11.15 - 11.30
SL-37
Stefan Lutz
Codexis Inc, Redwood City, USA

REVOLUTIONIZING RNAI THERAPEUTICS MANUFACTURING WITH ENZYMES

11.30 - 11.45
SL-38
Christopher Grimm
Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

OXIDATION OF SESQUITERPENES BY UNSPECIFIC PEROXYGENASES

11.45 - 12.00
SL-39
Ayako Yoshida
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

STRUCTURAL INSIGHT INTO ASSEMBLY OF LYSINE BIOSYNTHETIC ENZYMES MEDIATED BY AMINO-GROUP CARRIER PROTEIN

12.00 - 12.15
SL-40
Veronika Hahn
Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Greifswald, Germany

LACCASE AND PLASMA – OLD AND NEW TOOLS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF ORGANIC SUBSTANCES

12.15 - 12.30
SL-41
Hiroya Tomita
The University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan

BIOSYNTHESIS OF A THIAZOLE-RICH PEPTIDE IN THERMOPHILE

12.30 - 12.45
SL-42
Mark Doerr
University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

STANDARDISATION AND SEMANTIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BIOCATALYST DEVELOPMENT WITH LARA

 

12.45 - 13.15
End of Workshop
13.30 - 14.30
Optional Historic tour of University of Greifswald