Catalyzing Bio-Economy - Biocatalysts for Industrial Biotechnology, Annual meeting of the DECHEMA-VAAM-Section Biotransformations

Lecture Programme

April 24, 2012
13:30 Welcome address
 

A.Liese, Hamburg University of Technology/D
C. Syldatk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/D

 

13:40

Keynote Lecture                 

Industrial Biotechnology: Directing Innovation in Chemistry

  B. Hauer, University of Stuttgart/D
14:10 Eco-Efficient Synthesis of Chiral Alcohols by Combining Biocatalysis with "Smart Cosubstrates"
 

S. Kara, Delft University of Technology, Delft/NL, D. Spickermann, C. Leggewie, evocatal GmbH, Duesseldorf/D, I.W.C.E. Arends, F. Hollmann, Delft University of Technology, Delft/NL

14:30 Phytotherapics production from Olive mill waste water by intensified biocatalytic membrane reactor
 

R. Mazzei, E. Drioli, L. Giorno, Institute on Membrane Technology, Rende/I 

14:50 Substrate delivery strategies for improved enzymatic carotenoid cleavage
 

C. Nacke, S. Hüttmann, M. Schilling, J. Schrader, DECHEMA e.V., Frankfurt/D

   
15:10

Coffee break and poster viewing 

   
15:40 Poster speed lectures Part I
16:40

Enzyme-catalyzed Fine-Tuning of the Molecular Weight Distribution of Cellulose

 

B. Lämmerhirt, Hamburg University of Technology/D, A. Prediger, Leibniz University Hanover/D, M. Eckstein,  Evonik Industries AG, Essen/D, L. Hilterhaus, Hamburg University of Technology/D , S. Beutel, T. Scheper, Leibniz University Hanover/D, A. Liese, Hamburg University of Technology/D

17:00

Novel biocatalysts for the hydrolysis of diketopiperazines

 

M. Perzborn, C. Syldatk, J. Rudat, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/D

17:20

Poster speed lectures Part II 

 

 

19:00 Poster session and Get-together

 

 

April 25, 2012

 08:30

Engineering the thermostability of sucrose phosphorylase

  K. De Winter, T. Desmet, A. Cerdobbel, W. Soetaert, Ghent University/B
08:50 Immobilization of enzymes on textile carrier materials
 

K. Opwis, J.S. Gutmann, Deutsches Textilforschungszentrum Nord-West e.V.,  Krefeld/D

09:10 Immobilization of beta-galactosidase on membranes for process
intensification
 

Y. Satyawali, S. Van Roy, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Mol/B, P. Jochems, L. Diels, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Mol/B, University of Antwerp, Antwerp/B, W. Dejonghe, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Mol/B

09:30 Robust Enzyme Preparations for Stereoselective Reduction
 

A. Scholz , M. Ansorge-Schumacher, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin/D, M. Eckstein, Evonik Industries AG, Essen/D 

09:50 Combining Molecular Engineering and Covalent Immobilization for a Compartmented Enzymatic Reaction Sequence
  J. Simons, Hamburg University of Technology/D, M. Mosisch, A. Torda, University of Hamburg/D, L. Hilterhaus, Hamburg University of Technology/D
   
10:10

Coffee break and poster viewing 

   
10:40 Keynote Lecture
In silico design and engineering of biocatalysts for industrial
biotechnology
  J. Damborsky, Masaryk University Kamenice, Brno/CZ
11:10 Identification of rare aspartase variants that catalyze beta-amino acid synthesis
  R. Schmiedel, A. Vogel, c-LEcta GmbH, Leipzig/D
11:30 Synthesis of omega-hydroxy fatty acids by bacterial CYP153A
monooxygenases
 

S. Honda Malca, D. Scheps, L. Kühnel, E. Venegas-Venegas, A. Seifert,
B. M. Nestl, B. Hauer, University of Stuttgart/D

11:50 Efficient Route to Selective Bio-oxidation Catalysts: Iterative Approach Comprising Modeling, Diversification and Screening
 

A. Seifert, M. Antonovici, B. Hauer, J. Pleiss, University of Stuttgart/D

   
12:10

Lunch break 

   
13:10

NAD(P)H-Independent Asymmetric C=C-Bond Reduction by
Ene-Reductases: Strategies to Overcome Co-Product Inhibition

  C. K. Winkler, D. Clay, G. Tásnadi, M. Hall, K. Faber, University of Graz/A
13:30 Novel whole-cell biocatalysts for the reduction of dehydrocholic acid using hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases with reduced substrate inhibition.
 

B. Sun, M. Braun, D. Weuster-Botz, Technische Universität München, Garching/D

13:50 Keynote Lecture
Biocatalysis goes multistep: From natural biodiversity to synthetic
designer bugs
  J. Eck, Brain AG, Zwingenberg/D
   
14:20

Coffee break and poster viewing

   
14:50 Substrate promiscuity of a plant peroxygenase
  C. Fuchs, W. Schwab, Technische Universität München, Freising/D
15:10 Metal-mediated promiscuous enzyme activity
 

N.R. Uda,  M. Creus, University of Basel/CH

15:30 Promiscuity of a novel lipoxygenase (LOX) from Pleurotus sapidus
  I. Plagemann, K. Zelena, U. Krings, R. G. Berger, University of Hanover/D
15:50 Engineering the promiscuous racemis­ing activity of arylmalonate
decarboxylase from Bordatella bronchoseptica
 

R. Kourist, Ruhr-Universität Bochum/D, Keio University, Yokohama/J,
Y. Miyauchi, K. Miyamoto, Keio University, Yokohama/J

   
Followed by Closing remarks
   

 

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