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)
Monday, 18.8.2025
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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 |
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Round of introduction - you and your work in 1 minute |
16:00 |
Participant Introductions
1 minute short introduction + afterwards gathering at the posters
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18:00 |
Dinner |
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Evening Lecture |
20:15 |
Enzymes provide amazing industrial solutions! Oliver May, InnoSyn B.V. |
21:15 |
End of meeting day 1 |
Tuesday, 19.8.2025
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Enzyme Discovery II |
09:00 |
Exploring family-wide substrate promiscuity for enzyme discovery off the beaten path Kristina Haslinger, University of Groningen |
09:45 |
TBA Martin Schürmann, InnoSyn B.V. |
10:30 |
Coffee break |
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Enzyme Engineering & Design |
11:00 |
TBA Andreas Vogel, c-LEcta GmbH |
11:45 |
Making enzymatic data AI-ready Jürgen Pleiss, University of Stuttgart |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Wednesday, 20.8.2025
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From Reaction to Process |
09:00 |
TBA 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 |
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Sustainability Impact of Biotransfomation |
11:00 |
Introduction to Environmental Assessment for Sustainable Bioprocess Design
Georg Hubmann, TU Dortmund |
11:45 |
TBA Martin Schürmann, InnoSyn B.V. |
12:30 |
Lunch break |
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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 |
TBA Henk-Jan Joosten, Bio-Prodict |
18:30 |
BBQ Evening |
Thursday, 21.8.2025
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Enzyme Cascades II |
09:15 |
Intensification of chemo-enzymatic processes towards industrial volumetric productivities Selin Kara, Aarhus University |
10:00 |
Coffee break |
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Industrial Highlights |
10:30 |
Numaferm: Revolutionizing Peptein Production - Numacut Protease Enables Efficient Traceless Synthesis of Native Pepteins Christian Schwarz, Numaferm GmbH |
11:15 |
TBA Steffen Schaffer, Evonik |
12:00 |
Closing Remarks |
12:15 |
End of Summer School 2025/ Lunch (optional) |
Programme as of 23.7.2025