The Summer School 2025 starts on Monday, 18.8. at 13.30h and ends on Thursday, 21.8. at 12.15h.
See programme per day: Monday, 18.8.2025 (Meeting Day 1), Tuesday, 19.8.2025 (Meeting Day 2), Wednesday, 20.8.2025 (Meeting Day 3), Thursday, 21.8.2025 (Meeting Day 4)
| Enzyme Discovery | |
| 13:30 | Welcome and opening |
| 13:45 | Enzyme discovery through targeted database mining Anett Schallmey, TU Braunschweig |
| 14:30 | Leveraging the Unexplored Sequence Space for Industrial Enzyme Solutions Simon Godehard, BRAIN Biotech AG |
| 15:15 | Coffee break |
| Round of introduction - you and your work in 1 minute | |
| 16:00 |
Participant Introductions 1 minute short introduction + afterwards gathering at the posters |
| 18:00 | Dinner |
| Evening Lecture | |
| 20:15 | Enzymes provide amazing industrial solutions! Oliver May, InnoSyn B.V. |
| 21:15 | End of meeting day 1 |
| Enzyme Discovery II | |
| 09:00 | Exploring family-wide substrate promiscuity for enzyme discovery off the beaten path Kristina Haslinger, University of Groningen |
| 09:45 | Biocatalytic oxidations with pure oxygen: from lab to (pilot) plant and sustainability analysis Martin Schürmann, InnoSyn B.V. |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| Enzyme Engineering & Design | |
| 11:00 | Making enzymatic data AI-ready Jürgen Pleiss, University of Stuttgart |
| 11:45 | From Nature to Industry: Enzyme Engineering as the Key Enabler for Biocatalytic Innovation Andreas Vogel, c-LEcta GmbH |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
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Enzyme Engineering & Cascades |
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| 13:30 | The best of both worlds: combining chemistry and biology to discover biocatalysts in the natural or artificial genetic diversity Aurelio Hidalgo Huertas, UAM Madrid |
| 14:15 | Maximizing Efficiency: A Data-Driven Optimization Strategy for Multi-Enzyme Cascade Reactions Katrin Rosenthal, Constructor University Bremen |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
| Metabolic Engineering | |
| 15:30 | From automated strain engineering to large-scale application without loss of performance with Escherichia coli Ralf Takors, University of Stuttgart |
| 16:15 | Metabolic Engineering in an industrial context Hartwig Schröder, BASF SE |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| Evening Lecture | |
| 20:15 | Design and selection of small-scale shaken bioreactors for large-scale process development Sven Hansen, Evonik |
| 21:15 | End of meeting day 2 |
| From Reaction to Process | |
| 09:00 | Bioreaction Engineering Enabling Biotransformations Daniel Ohde, Hamburg University of Technology |
| 09:45 | Catalytically Active and Self-assembling Biocatalytic Materials: Formulation and Application in Flow Systems Kersten Rabe, KIT |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| Sustainability Impact of Biotransfomation | |
| 11:00 |
Introduction to Environmental Assessment for Sustainable Bioprocess Design Georg Hubmann, TU Dortmund |
| 11:45 | AI and ML tools for Life Science Researchers: Theoretical and Practical Aspects Silviu Acaru, SynSilico B.V. and Martin Schürmann, InnoSyn B.V. |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
| Circular Economy | |
| 13:30 | Open loop recycling using engineered microbes Lars Blank, RWTH Aachen University |
| 14:15 | Enzymatic Recycling for Circular Economy in the Plastics Industry Lukas Reisky, Covestro |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
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Data-driven Forecasting |
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| 15:30 | Towards closed-loop bioprocess development: Robotic workflows for automated Design-Build-Test-Learn cycles Marco Oldiges, Forschungszentrum Jülich |
| 16:15 |
3DM Engineering; The most accurate AI protein property predictor Henk-Jan Joosten, Bio-Prodict |
| 18:30 | BBQ Evening |
| Enzyme Cascades II | |
| 09:15 | Intensification of chemo-enzymatic processes towards industrial volumetric productivities Selin Kara, Aarhus University |
| 10:00 | Coffee break |
| Industrial Highlights | |
| 10:30 | Numaferm: Revolutionizing Peptein Production - Numacut Protease Enables Efficient Traceless Synthesis of Native Pepteins Christian Schwarz, Numaferm GmbH |
| 11:15 | Biosurfactants: an Industrial Biotechnology journey Steffen Schaffer, Evonik |
| 12:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 12:15 | End of Summer School 2025/ Lunch (optional) |
Programme as of 4.8.2025
