Saturday |
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session: Status of Biocatalysis |
| Discussion Leader: Lisa Marx (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) |
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Andreas Bommarius (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) "Status
of Biocatalysis – Developability and Current Frontiers" |
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Terpene Synthases / Mentorship Component: Career Panel |
| Discussion Leaders: Fiona Truscott (University College London, United Kingdom), Catarina Seita (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) and Michael Fink (Harvard University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Charlotte Kürten (Science for Life Laboratory / KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) "Understanding and Engineering Solvent Dynamics in Enzymes for the Production of Valuable Polycyclic Products" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Abith Vattekkatte (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany) "Single Template, Multiple Currencies: Modulating Multiproduct Terpene Synthases with Substrates" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "How to Build a Scientific Career" |
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- David Berkowitz (University of Nebraska, USA)
- Birgit Kosjek (Merck & Co., Inc., USA)
- Andreas Bommarius (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
- John Woodley (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
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Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Metals and Enzymatic Function / Flavin-Dependent Enzymes |
| Discussion Leader: Fabio Parmeggiani (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Hanna Key (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "Abiological Catalysis by Artificial Heme Proteins Containing Noble Metals in Place of Iron" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Aditi Deshpande (Brandeis University, USA) "Metal-Dependent Function of a Mammalian Acireductone Dioxygenase" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Florian Rudroff (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) "Inexpensive Additives Stabilize Notoriously Fragile Flavin Monooxygenases 50 to 100-Fold Under Reaction Conditions" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Eileen Brandenburger (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom) "Development of Halogenase Enzymes as Novel Biocatalysts" |
10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Towards Industrial Application of Biocatalysis |
| Discussion Leader: Mahbod Hajighasemi (University of Toronto, Canada) |
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Asbjorn Toftgaard Pedersen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) "The Influence of the Michaelis Constant for Oxygen on the Scale-Up and Operation of Oxygen Dependent Biocatalytic Processes" |
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Alex Brogan (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) "Solvent-Free Functional Biofluids as a Route Towards Highly Stable Biocatalysts in Non-Aqueous Environments" |
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |