Microbial Biotechnology Symposium MB9.0

The Microbial Biotechnology Symposium is organised yearly by the NBV work group Microbial Biotechnology. 

What: MB9.0
When: Monday November 6^th, 2023
Where: DUWO Lecture Hall, Professor Schermerhornstraat 4, Delft

Registration

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Programme

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9:30 – 10:00  Registration and coffee

10:00 - 10:15 Introduction

10:15 - 10:45 Invited lecture: Nick Wierckx – Forschungszentrum Jülich:Appetite for trash - Establishing plastic waste as biotechnology feedstock.

10:45 - 11:05 Nuran Temelli – WUR: The general stress response as a tool to save energy and boost precision fermentation

11:05 - 11:25 Femke Vermeir – Radboud University: The molecular mechanism of hydrazine production by the hydrazine synthase of anammox bacteria

11:25 – 11:45  Chaoxian Bai – Leiden University: CUBIC: A CUmate-Based Inducible CRISPRi system in Streptomyces

11:45- 12:10  Poster pitches

12:10 - 13:30 Lunch, poster session and networking

13:30- 14:00 Invited lecture: Barbara Kozak – IFF:Taming Trichoderma for industrial needs.

14:00- 14:20  Julius Battjes - VU: Resource allocation in Crabtree negative yeast Pichia kluyveri.

14:20- 14:40  Marieke Warmerdam – TU Delft: Exploring yeast diversity for ethanol-fueled industrial biotechnology.

14:40 - 15:25 Coffee break and poster session

15:25- 15:45  Suzan Yilmaz - WUR: Engineering One-Carbon Metabolism in E. coli using Multiplex Genome Engineering”.

15:45 - 16:05 Yanfang Guo - Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute:Development of a versatile fungal host for heterologous expression

 16:15 - 16:45        Invited lecture: Stan Brouns – TU Delft: CRISPR mediated protein cleavage: a new era of proteome editing

16:45            Drinks and Networking

Sponsors

MB9.0 is proudly sponsored by: