Programme

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Programme

Foyer Podium
Auditorium Momentum
Time
08:45 - 09:30h Registration, company stands & poster set up
09:30 - 09:45h Opening & welcome
09:45 - 10:35h

Marcel Wubbolts (Vivici)
Precision fermentation for nutritious and sustainable proteins

10:35 - 11:05h Poster pitches (odd numbers)
11:05 - 11:35h Coffee break, company stands & poster session
Parallel Sessions
11:35 - 12:40h Bioprocess Technology
Chair: Thijs Gerritzen & Gerard ‘t Lam

Genetic Engineering
Chair: Dick Roelofs

Improving Sustainability & Design
Chair: Carlien Verberne

Benjamin Blaha (Fuse Vectors) - Cell-free manufacturing of viral vector gene therapies 

Mark Aarts (WUR) - Can we improve photosynthesis efficiency to improve crop yield?

Hedwig Braakhuis (TNO) - Safe & Sustainable by Design

Piotr Pawlica (Thermo Fisher Scientific) - Comparison of Single-Use and Steel Fermentors for Malaria Vaccine Expression

Fleur Kleijburg (Utrecht University) - From Structural Integrity to Thermoprotection: Functional Insights into the Biological Role of the polysaccharide schizophyllan in Schizophyllum commune for Biotechnological Applications

Christiane Funk (Umeå University) - Waste-2-Plastic: Recycling of CO2, nitrogen, phosphorus and water for the production of bioplastic

Talk A3

Sarah D'Adamo (WUR) - From Cell Factory Design to Bio-Based Chemicals: The potential of industrially attractive microalgae in modern biotechnology

Talk C3

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

iGEM team Wageningen
TBC

14:05 - 14:55h

Caroline Paul (TU Delft)
Bioorganic chemistry and biocatalysis

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

From lab to industry
Chair: Ruud Heshof

Strain, species, scale
Chair: Mark Bisschops

Biocatalysis
Chair: TBA

Laura Claret Fernández (HAN BioCentre) - Towards a fungal-based colorful future: successful upscaling and dye application of a color-producing fungus

Ruud Weusthuis (WUR) - The ideal bioprocess

Kristina Haslinger (RUG) - Applied biocatalysis

Cees Sagt (dsm-firmenich) - Managing biological complexity in an industrial setting

Martijn Wissink (Radboud University) - A New Dawn for Methanotroph Cultivation: Bioelectrochemical Systems yield almost pure cultures of Methanoperedens  Archaea

Tobias Heinks (TU Delft) - Using Transaminases as Dehalogenases?

René Rozendal - Paques Biomaterials

Talk B6

Robert Schmitz (TU Delft) - Protein-based Selective Rare Earth Element Extraction and Separation

16:55 - 17:45h

Eva-Karin Gidlund (CA&IO NorthX Biologics)
TBA

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

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