Microbial Biotechnology Symposium MB11
The Microbial Biotechnology Symposium is organised yearly by the NBV work group Microbial Biotechnology.
What: MB11
When: Monday 1 December, 2025
Where: Omnia Congress Centre, Wageningen
| Program | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Registration and coffee |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Opening |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Invited lecture: Jan Marienhagen – Fz Jülich / RWTH Aachen If It Doesn’t Glow, It Doesn’t Go – Custom Biosensors Driving Microbial Metabolic Engineering |
| 10:45 - 11:05 | Panos Kopsiaftis – Corbion / Wageningen University Investigating and enhancing the xylan-degradation capabilities of a thermophilic microbe |
| 11:05 - 11:25 | Maaike Remeijer – Free University Amsterdam Modularizing genome scale metabolic models: applications for cell factory design |
| 11:25 - 11:45 | Minke Gabriëls – Delft University of Technology Linking structure to function in high performing electrosynthetic biofilm communities |
| 11:45 - 12:10 | Poster pitches |
| 12:10 - 13:30 | Lunch, poster session and networking |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Invited lecture: Jeroen Hugenholtz – NoPalm Ingredients t.b.a. |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Noor van Wijk – Wageningen University De novo NMN overproduction in Escherichia coli as noncanonical redox cofactor |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Jelmer Coenradij – Groningen University Autonomous synthesis of phospholipids and recycling of nucleotides in synthetic cells |
| 14:40 - 15:40 | Coffee break and poster session |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Laura Claret Fernández – HAN University of Applied Sciences Towards a fungal-based colorful future: Successful upscaling and dye application of a color-producing fungus. |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Jurian Wijnheijmer – University of Amsterdam Machine Learning identifies novel mechanisms of action of antimicrobials |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Invited lecture: Pascale Daran-Lapujade – Delft University of Technology Large scale pathway and genome engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from synthetic pathways to synthetic cells |
| 17:00 | Drinks and Networking |
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