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Summer School 2025 Biotransformations

Programme at a glance

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 

  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

Tuesday, 19.8.2025

  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
  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
 

Enzyme Engineering & Cascades

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

Wednesday, 20.8.2025

  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
  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
  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
 

Data-driven Forecasting

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

  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 TBA
Steffen Schaffer, Evonik
12:00 Closing Remarks
12:15 End of Summer School 2025/ Lunch (optional)

Programme as of 23.7.2025

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