Preliminary program
| Wednesday 18 August | ||
| Student Session, organized by SBE@Chalmers for Chalmers students only (10:an, KEMI - Chemistry building) | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Registration | |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Lecture TBA |
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| 16:00 – 17:00 | Panel discussion on industrial biotechnology | |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Social hour | |
| Thursday 19 August | ||
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Welcome and Introduction Jens Nielsen, Conference Chair, Chalmers Stefan Bengtsson, Vice president of Chalmers |
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Session I: |
Impact of systems biology on industrial biotechnology Chair: Stefan Hohmann, University of Gothenburg |
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| 09:10 – 09:50 | Genome-scale metabolic networks: The core of industrial systems biology Jens Nielsen, Chalmers, Gothenburg Sweden |
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| 09:50 – 10:30 | The Impact of computational systems biology on industrial biotechnology Vassily Hatzimanikatis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee/Posters/Exhibition | |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae – from in silico models to in vivo cell factories Kiran Patil, DTU, Lyngby, Denmark |
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| 11:20 – 11:40 | Bistability in E. coli’s central metabolism Matthias Heinemann, ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
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| 11:40 – 12:00 | Engineering Mixed Sustrate Uptake by C.glutamicum Elmar Heinzle, Saarland University, Germany |
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| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch/Posters/Exhibition | |
| Session II: | Sustainable production of chemicals Chair: Dina Petranovic, Chalmers |
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| 13:00 – 13:40 | Systems Metabolic Engineering of E. coli for the Production of Polymers Sang Yup Lee, KAIST, Daejon, Korea |
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| 13:40 – 14:00 | Towards next-generation bioprocesses - Systems-wide metabolic engineering of the industrial working horse Corynebacterium glutamicum for superior production Christoph Wittmann, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany |
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| 14:30 – 15:00 | Approaches to metabolic engineering of organisms for chemical production Andrew C. Eliot, DuPont, Wilmington, USA |
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee/Posters/Exhibition | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Application of metabolic engineering to the production of renewable chemicals Alan Berry, Novozymes, Davis, USA |
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| 16:00 – 16:20 | Secondary metabolic production in yeast Verena Siewers, Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden |
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| 16:20 – 16:40 | Production of resveratrol using Saccharomyces cerevisiae Jochen Förster, Fluxome, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| 16:40 – 17:00 | Chemical versus biotech production of butanol Eric Appelman, Perstorp, Sweden |
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| Boat trip to Älvsborg fortress, dinner (optional) | ||
| 17:30 | Bus leaves for harbor | |
| 18:00 | Boat leaves for Island | |
| Friday 20 August | ||
Session III: |
Production of biofuels Chair: Jens Nielsen, Chalmers |
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| 09:00 – 09:40 | Engineering microbial metabolism for production of advanced biofuels Jay Keasling, JBEI & UC Berkeley, USA |
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| 09:40 – 10:20 | Challenges in biofuel production from renewable feedstocks Greg Stephanopoulos, MIT, Cambridge, USA |
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| 10:20 – 11:00 | Coffee/Posters/Exhibition | |
| 11:00 – 11:40 | Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a versatile metabolic engineering platform for bulk chemicals production Jack Pronk, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands |
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| 11:40 – 12:00 | Adapting the yeast to the process environment – or vice versa? Gunnar Liden, University of Lund, Sweden |
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| 12:00 – 12:30 | Advancing biofuels John Pierce, BP |
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| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch/Posters/Exhibition | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Press conference (upon invitation only) | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Design and Operation of a Cell Factory to Produce Isoprene Karl Sanford, Genencor/Danisco, Palo Alto, USA |
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| 14:30 – 14:50 | Microorganisms for bioethanol production – from lab medium to large scale lignocellulosic fermentations Lisbeth Olsson, Chalmers, Sweden |
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| 14:50 – 15:10 | Microbial production of renewable diesel fuel: The role of industrials systems biology in strain benchmarking and improvement Michael Leavell, Amyris, USA |
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| 15:10 | Conference closure | |
| 15:20 – 17:00 | Round Table Discussion (upon invitation only): Industrial Biotechnology – A Swedish Perspective | |
| Promoter: Jens Nielsen, Chalmers Panel members: TBA |
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