Keynote lecture
Invited speaker
| 1 | Disarming bacteria: a discovery platform for pathoblocker peptides Maximilian Otto, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| 2 | Bi-level diversity optimisation for representative protein panel selection Zhen Ou, Newcastle University, United Kingdom |
| 3 | Hydrogel supported co-culture biofilms of lactobacilli and phytoplankton for sustainable production of lactic acid Viola Modenese, INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany |
| 4 | AI driven discovery and design of cold-active alkaline alpha-amylase biocatalysts for sustainable detergents Theodore Quinlan, Newcastle University, United Kingdom |
| 5 | Access to herbicidal fungal specialized metabolites Francis Owuna Enyi, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany |
| 6 | Engineering biosensors for the screening of novel hydrolases against phthalate-based polymers in Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 Alba Calonge García |
| 7 | Overcoming noise in bio-computing: engineering living computers with phase-based logic Luiza Konkina, Newcastle University, United Kingdom |
| 8 | Sense, respond, recover: a biosensor-guided surface display strategy for adaptive multi-metal recovery Viktor Van der Mensbrugghe, CSB – Centre for Synthetic Biology – Ghent University, Belgium |
| 9 | 3R’s – react, respond and regulate. Designing a periplasmic stress responsive system that promotes tunability of recombinant protein production in bacteria Ashwathi Valiyaparambil, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| 10 | Shining a light on solvent tolerance mechanisms: biosensor-based insights into intracellular solvent concentrations in Pseudomonas taiwanensis VLB120 Tobias Probanowski, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany |
| 11 | Engineering membrane targeting for functional expression of plant cytochrome P450 enzymes in bacteria Miguel De Block, Ghent University - Biotechnology - CSB, Belgium |
| 12 | Modified metal-organic framework based multi-enzyme nanoreactors for in vitro drug biosynthesis and pathway transplantation into cells Manar Farooqui, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia |
| 13 | Engineering yeast as an orthogonal chassis for GPCR functional characterization and drug discovery Elena Velazquez, University of Copenhagen, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Denmark |
| 14 | Programmable transcriptional networks with recombination and CRISPR activation Andrew Gutierrez, University of New Mexico, United States |
| 15 | Recoding regulation to boost methanol assimilation in Escherichia coli Antoine Berger, Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, France |
| 16 | Genetic circuit-based stress-proofing of Cereibacter sphaeroides microbial cell factories Carla Gil Piñeira, Ghent University, Belgium |
| 17 | Biofunnelling of plastic waste-derived paraffins into dicarboxylic acids through the non-conventional yeast Yarrowia lipolytica Joost Woestenborghs, VIB/KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 18 | Synthetic biology as a tool for (mycelium) material functionalisation Hannelore Wilssens, Ghent University, Belgium |
| 19 | Improving the properties of mycelium materials through fungal-bacterial cocultures Marc Kessels Solé, Centre for Synthetic Biology - UGhent, Belgium |
| 20 | SynThera: biocontainment strategy for therapeutic Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 Alina Kuzembayeva, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, HKI, Germany |
| 21 | Engineering cargo release in Pseudomonas putida via autolysis: from inducer-dependent to autoinducible, growth-dependent systems Matúš Pešta, Masaryk University, Czech Republic |
| 22 | Biosensor-guided screening and engineering of yeast aquaporins for xylitol transport – a platform for microbial cell factory optimization Lobke Sips, Ghent University - Centre for Synthetic Biology, Belgium |
| 23 | Ocean plastisphere study: harnessing deep-sea microbes for plastic degradation Erin Garza, J. Craig Venter Institute, United States |
| 24 | Structure and function of P. aeruginosa targeting endolysin PAX as a novel antimicrobial Mackenzie Aitken, University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
| 25 | How to design a pathogen-killing microorganism? Alexandre Chamas, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany |
| 26 | Bursting with benefits: asynchronous lysis for cell factories Miguel Silva, Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic |
| 27 | High-throughput sequence–function mapping in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for system engineering Izabella Pomykalska, Laboratory of Synthetic and Applied Microbiology (LSAM), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland |
| 28 | Co-utilization of hexose and acetate by Saccharomyces cerevisiae for bioproduction Anthony Carneiro, Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, France |
| 29 | Decoding the regulatory landscape of synthetic methylotrophy in Escherichia coli Léa Breton, Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, France |
| 30 | High-throughput sequence-function mapping for biosensor engineering Ricardo Javier Farrera Muro, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 31 | Molecular recognition of the renewable monomer 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid by the transcription factor HmfR Lani Peel, University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
| 32 | Using biomolecular condensates as a tool to enhance the mevalonate pathway towards rapid isoprenoid biosynthesis Myles Landon, University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
| 33 | Structural modelling and recombinant production of phage endolysins targeting zoonotic bacterial pathogens with antimicrobial resistance Ana Torrejón Cabello, AINIA, Spain |
| 34 | Untangling metabolic and gene expression constraints in E. coli cell factories with systems modelling and high throughput experimentation Sepideh Bourenjanshirazi, University of Warwick, United Kingdom |
| 35 | Just-in-time gene delivery for toxic protein production using phage Lambda (λ) Flo Baert, KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 36 | High-throughput artificial olfaction for the discovery and classification of lignin-derived fragrance molecules Cecilia Roque, NOVA University Lisbon - UCIBIO, Portugal |
| 37 | Exploring yeasts isolated from the Brazilian biodiversity for the bioconversion of lignin-derived aromatic compounds Fernanda Miyuki Kashiwagi, Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Brazil |
| 38 | Reprogramming a pathogen as a vaccine: phage-inspired attenuation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Riet Dehaene, KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 39 | Turning toxicity into productivity: transcription factor-based growth coupling for stable production of hydrophobic aromatics in Pseudomonas taiwanensis Alina Grankin, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany |
| 40 | Engineering logic gates that work across many bacteria Panagiotis Gklekas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB-CSIC, Spain |
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Invited speaker
| 51 | Teaching an old yeast new tricks: engineering the multi-stress tolerant yeast Issatchenkia orientalis for Sargassum macroalgal substrate valorization Elijah Gallimore-Repole, Princeton University, United States |
| 52 | The membrane-bound transhydrogenase of E. coli is reversible in vivo Jenny Bakker, WageningenUR, Netherlands |
| 53 | Expanding the promoter toolbox for N. oceanica: hybrid and synthetic designs for tunable expression Jose Cachay Morante, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| 54 | Engineering Vibrio natriegens for indigoidine production from acetate Anna Maria Erian, BOKU University, Austria |
| 55 | Scalable production and activity-preserving conjugation of a clickable nickel–iron hydrogenase in Escherichia coli Qin Fan, Biotechnology Institute, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 56 | Bacterial protein aggregates as symmetry breaking logic gate for engineering cell differentiation in Escherichia coli Sara Heylen, KU Leuven, Belgium |
| 57 | Microbial biosynthesis of novel methylated natural products assisted by high-throughput enzyme screening Diego Rosas, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands |
| 58 | Decoding plasmid-chromosome crosstalk to engineer programmable conjugative plasmids for microbial gene delivery Ana Gabriela Veiga Sepulchro, University of Manchester / Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, United Kingdom |
| 59 | Long-term adaptive laboratory evolution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for high-titer lactic acid production at low pH Martin Altvater, BOKU University, Austria |
| 60 | Monitoring of Zika-VLP production by 2D fluorescence spectroscopy and multi-way partial least squares Júlia Dezanetti da Silva, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil |
| 61 | Dynamic characterisation and design of magneto-responsive proteins Aoife McLoughlin, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
| 62 | Modular yeast engineering via genomic cassette swapping for the biomanufacturing of plant natural products Francesco Bellusci, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy |
| 63 | A modular synthetic biology platform for converting renewable C6 intermediates toward medium-ring lactones Robson Tramontina, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, United Kingdom |
| 64 | Molecular recognition of the renewable monomer 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid by the transcription factor HmfR Bhumishree Bhumisuta Dehury, University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
| 65 | Systems and synthetic biology approaches to nitrogen heterocycle production in Pseudomonas putida Philip Le Roy, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, United Kingdom |
| 66 | A Gram-positive modular receptor platform for biomarker detection Jens Cremers, KU Leuven - VIB CfM, Belgium |
| 67 | Synthetic biology approaches to heterologous glycosylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hayden Edwards, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom |
| 68 | Complementary yeast biosensors for intracellular and extracellular lactate Xiang Li, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| 69 | Functional synthetic biology for production of biopolymers, and enhancement of functional food and plant hormones Raul Cuero, Scientist-Independent Biotechnology Consultant, United States |
| 70 | Engineering a robust Pseudomonas putida cell factory for enhanced isobutanol production Ruiting Zhang, University College London, United Kingdom |
| 71 | Developing a therapy for pulmonary fibrosis using Mycoplasma Javier Gonzalez de Miguel, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain |
| 72 | Sentinel bacteria: engineering Pseudomonas fluorescens biosensors to sense and record soil health Louis Perrin, Earlham Institute, United Kingdom |
| 73 | Engineering synthetic plant artificial chromosomes (synPACs) Daria Cuthbert, Earlham Institute, United Kingdom |
| 74 | Chemical profiling reveals a transporter required for organic acid tolerance in yeast that improves 2G chemicals production Thais dos Reis |
| 75 | Biosensor-guided investigation of citramalate and mesaconate metabolism and its regulation in Cupriavidus necator H16 Rizkallah Al Akiki Dit Al Mazraani, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania |
| 76 | Metabolic engeneering in microalgae: regulation of the arginine metabolism for sustainable lipid production for biofuels Vital Pegorin Oliveira, University of São Paulo, Brazil |
| 77 | Sampling catalytic space beyond nature's invention: automated active-site discovery feeding computational enzyme design Audrius Laurynėnas, Vilnius University, Lithuania |
| 78 | Recombinant production and bioactivity of a crotamine-arenin chimera Mario Emmanuel Barocio Padrón, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico |
| 79 | Characterization of synthetic degron tags based on Sic1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Aleksandra Panfilova, University of Copehagen, Estonia |
| 80 | CSIR–NRF Chair for Biofoundry: development of one of the first in Africa Bio-foundry labs, with the phase I focus on South Africa synthetic biology roadmap Deepak Balaji Thimiri Govindaraj, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Biosciences CSIR, South Africa |
| 81 | CRISPR-Cas9-mediated integration of geraniol synthase enables geraniol production in a pre-engineered Yarrowia lipolytica chassis Solange Grace Barrios Gutierrez, University of São Paulo, Brazil |
| 82 | Reversible assembly of AP205 bacteriophage virus-like particles for hybrid therapeutics Naomi Shucun Li, School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| 83 | Development and validation of high-sensitivity, wide-dynamic-range open-source platform for real-time quantitative fluorescence monitoring in microbial cultures Juan Rico Molins, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio, UV-CSIC), Spain |
| 84 | Characterization of esterase GDest-rm1 for enzymatic conversion of polyethylene terephthalate degradation intermediates Antanas Padaiga, Vilnius University, Lithuania |
| 85 | Engineering cscR-binding operator sequences for dynamic metabolic control of sucrose consumption Álvaro Gómez, National Centre for Biotechnology, CNB-CSIC, Spain |
| 86 | The Phoenix System: rising from the ashes of genetic instability David Benk Vysloužil, Masaryk University, Czech Republic |
| 87 | Exploratory integration of metabolic and agent-based models for tumour progression simulations Ana Silva, ITQB-NOVA, Portugal |
| 88 | Engineering nitrogenase electron-transport component in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Laura Cutugno, Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas/CSIC, Spain |
| 89 | Developing engineered whole-cell bacterial biosensors for speciation in patients suspected of bacteraemia Hung Sang Chan, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom |
| 90 | Enabling online monitoring of secreted recombinant protein production with GFP-based sensors in Komagataella phaffii Guillem Lopez-Grado i Salinas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain |
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