Programme

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Programme

Lounge Congress Room B
Room 1/2 Room 3/4
Time Programme
08:45 - 09:30h Registration & company market
09:30 - 09:45h Opening & welcome
09:45 - 10:35h

Diana Visser (Corbion)
Sustainability: An innovation engine

10:35 - 10:40h

Nettie Buitelaar
Pitch: BiotechBooster

10:40 - 11:05h Poster pitches (odd numbers)
11:05 - 11:35h Coffee break, company market
Parallel Sessions
11:35 - 12:40h Health
Chair: Marieke Klijn

Cell Factory
Chair: Melvin Siliakus

Microbial Biotechnology
Chair: Francesco Mutti

Mathieu Streefland, UniQure

How uniQure’s modular platform approach drives continuous innovation in AAV gene therapy development and manufacturing

Kirsten Herben-Steinbusch, DAB.bio

Facilitating sustainable chemical production with FAST – proprietary continuous, extractive fermentation process intensification

Clemens Mayer, RuG

Selecting next-generation biocatalysts by complementing recoded bacteria

Brenda Juarez Garza, TU Delft

Cell Therapy Scale-up: Bioprocess Development for the Production of Hematopoietic Cells

Zeynep Efsun Duman-Özdamar, WUR

Model-driven design of Yarrowia lipolytica as a cell factory for improved microbial oil production

Kristina Haslinger, RuG

Flavonoid production in engineered Penicillium rubens

Dami Rebergen, Cyclomics

CyclomicsSeq: Advancing genomics through high-quality DNA sequencing

Sabine van Oossanen, WUR

A Roadmap to lipids from light: Improving lipid production in the microalga Nannochloropsis through Genome-scale Metabolic Modeling

Minrui Ren, Leiden University

Investigation of ethylene glycol metabolism in Paracoccus denitrificans

12:40 - 13:50h Lunch, company market & poster sessions
13:50 - 14:05h

Jakob Scheele & Jolien Marcelis (iGEM team TU Eindhoven)
IMPACT: the autoimmune therapy of the future
Undergraduate Grand Prize winner

14:05 - 14:55h

Olivier Rolland (L'Oréal)
Industrial biotechnology: a key pillar in the transition towards the bioeconomy?

14:55 - 15:15h Poster pitches (even numbers)
15:15 - 15:50h Coffee break, company market & poster session
Parallel Sessions
15:50 - 16:55h

Food & biobased
Chair: Jeroen den Hollander
(sponsored by Gecco Biotech)

Societal impact
Chair: Britte Bouchaut 

Microbial biotechnology
Chair: Sonja Billerbeck

Harry Raaijmakers, Cosun

Biorefinery of agro-food residues for non-food products

Virgil Rerimassie, Gezondheidsraad

Biotechnology Trend Analysis 2023, time for an intergrated vision

Ákos Kovács, Leiden University

Engineering Bacillus without genetic engineering

Evelien Vaessen, FrieslandCampina

Production of infant food ingredients by precision fermentation

Lotte Asveld, TU Delft

Inclusion and sustainability in a data-centric bioeconomy

Timon Torres Ruano, WUR

A synthetic co-culture approach for the conversion of carbon monoxide to bioplastics

Laura Claret-Fernandez, HAN BioCentre

Transparently forward: Clarified fermented tomato plant stem juice as a biostimulant in greenhouses

Nardy Kip, HAN

Landfill gas becomes sustainable plastic

Marieke Klijn, TU Delft

Unlocking the potential of synthetic co-cultures: Advancing sustainable biotechnology with in-line Raman spectroscopy

16:55 - 17:45h

Jean-Paul Meijnen (Ginkgo Bioworks)
Making (fungal) biology easier to enigneer

17:45 - 17:55h Zilveren Zandloper Award & Closing
17:55 - 20:00h Reception and Dinner with Poster Prizes
20:30h End of conference

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