The conference aims to highlight major achievements in areas such as enzyme discovery, advanced computational tools for enzyme engineering, novel chemistry catalyzed by engineered biocatalysts, integration of several enzymes into multistep cascades, as well as combinations with metal-, organo-, photo- and electro-chemistry in order to achieve a sustainable and energy-efficient bioeconomy in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries and further areas of application. Major topics include novel natural enzymes for biocatalysis, enzyme engineering for new applications, enzymes designed for “new-to-nature” reactions, novel tools for enzyme discovery and engineering, combination of chemo- and enzyme catalysis, and enzyme reaction cascades.
Selected Speakers
- Rebecca Buller, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- Jiří Damborský, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Woody Fessner, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Anthony Green, University of Manchester, UK
- Bernhard Hauer, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Florian Hollfelder, University of Cambridge, UK
- Henk-Jan Joosten, Bio-Prodict, The Netherlands
- Stefan Lutz, Codexis, USA
- Alain Marty, CARBIOS, France
- Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Crete, Greece
- Florian Rudroff, TU Wien, Austria
- Sandy Schmidt, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Burckhard Seelig, University of Minnesota, USA
- Per-Olof Syrén, KTH Royal Insitute of Technology, Sweden
- Thomas Bayer, University of Greifswald, Germany
- Jörg Pietruszka, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
- Christian Schnepel, University of Manchester, UK
- Jeremy Tame, Yokohama City University, Japan
- Martin Weissenborn, Leibniz-Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany
- Changzhu Wu, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Hans Adrian Bunzel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Margit Winkler, Graz University of Technology, Austria
- Simon Godehard, BRAIN Biotech AG, Germany
- Francesco Mutti, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Martin Schürmann, InnoSyn B.V., The Netherlands
- Ingmar Schuster, Exazyme GmbH, Germany