Microbial Biotechnology Symposium MB10

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

What: MB10
When: Monday 18 November, 2024
Where: Pathé Delft

Registration

Registration is required. Register here!

The programme is outlined below:

09:30 - 10:00 | Registration and coffee

10:00 - 10:15 | Opening

10:15 - 10:45 | Invited lecture: Harmen van Rossum – Cradle Bio
Generative AI for building better proteins

10:45 - 11:05 | Charlotte Koster – Wageningen University
Good endings and new beginnings: deciphering non-coding elements in gene expression to improve protein production

11:05 - 11:25 | Matteo Vajente – University of Groningen
Increasing electroporation efficiency in the lithoautotrophic bacterium Cupriavidus necator H16 - A roadmap for non-model bacteria domestication

11:25 - 11:45 |  Jeroen Koendjbiharie – Free University Amsterdam
Schrödinger’s cat-alyst: The 6-phosphofructokinase reaction in Acetivibriothermocellus.

11:45 - 12:10 | Poster pitches

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

13:30 - 14:00 | Invited lecture: Maria Barbosa – Wageningen University
Photosynthetic Cell Factories

14:00 - 14:20 | Sagarika Bangalore Govindaraju – Delft University of Technology
Deciphering interactions in microbial consortia using microbead sorting

14:20 - 14:40 | Alberto Agnolin – University of Amsterdam
Effect of the stringent response on amylase production and the ribosome profile of Bacillus subtilis

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

15:40 - 16:00 |  Bas van Woudenberg – Leiden University
The metabolic engineering of Methylobacterium extorquens for the sustainable bioproduction of chemicals.

16:00 - 16:20 | Gerrich Behrend – Max Planck Institute Magdeburg
From tequila to bulk chemicals: Establishing a versatile modular cloning toolbox for genetic engineering of Zymomonas mobilis

16:20 - 16:50 | Invited lecture: Marjan de Mey – Ghent University
Microbial production of specific chitooligosaccharides

16:45 | Drinks and Networking

The full programme can be downloaded here.

Sponsors

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