Amended ECB16 Programme

16th European Congress on Biotechnology Congress Programme
13 - 16 July 2014, Edinburgh International Convention Centre, Edinburgh, UK
(updated 1 February 2014)
Sunday 13 July
Young European Biotech Network (YEBN) workshop
10:00 - 16:00
Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB)
workshop
Biomolecular Technology of Proteins (BioToP) workshop
Opening Ceremony
17:00 - 19:00
Plenary Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jay Keasling, University of California, Berkeley
Welcome Reception, EICC
19:00 - 20:30
Monday 14 July
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award
Symposium 1: Stem cell
applications and gene
therapies: where are we?
Keynote speaker:
Matthias Lütolf (Switzerland)
Symposium 2: Plants for
production of high value
chemicals.
Keynote speaker:
Gary Loake (UK)
Symposium 3:
Glycobiotechnology.
Keynote speaker:
Sabine Flitsch (UK)
Symposium 4: Stress
responses in
microbial bioprocessing.
Keynote speaker:
Bernd Bukau (Germany)
Lunch, Poster Presentations and Satellite Meetings
15:00 - 17:30
17:30 - 19:30
Symposium 5: Synthetic
biology replacements for
antibiotics.
Keynote speaker:
Oscar Kuipers (Netherlands)
Symposium 6: Assimilation
of CO2, CO and CH4
into biobased products.
Keynote speaker:
Roberto de Philippis (Italy)
Symposium 7: Applications
of metabolic modelling.
Keynote speaker:
Christoph Wittmann
(Germany)
Symposium 8: Industrial
biotechnology of natural
and synthetic polymers.
Keynote speaker:
Gerald Gübitz (Austria)
Bioeconomy
Keynote speaker: John Bell, Director of the Bioeconomy Directorate, European Commission
To register or for further information please visit www.ecb16.com Organised by the European Federation of Biotechnology
© TFI Group 2014
16th European Congress on Biotechnology Congress Programme
13 - 16 July 2014, Edinburgh International Convention Centre, Edinburgh, UK
(updated 1 February 2014)
Tuesday 15 July
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Plenary: Prosthetic gene networks for biomedical applications
Prof. Martin Fussenegger, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich
Symposium 9: Biomarkers
and diagnostic tools.
Keynote speaker:
Molly Stevens (UK)
Symposium 10: Biowaste
sustainable bioeconomy.
Keynote speaker:
Fabio Fava (Italy)
Symposium 11:
Nanotechnology: new
biological applications.
Keynote speaker:
Erik Reimhult (Austria)
Symposium 12: Robust
biocatalysts for the
production of novel
bio-based products.
Keynote speaker:
Pierre Monsan (France)
Lunch, Poster Presentations and Satellite Meetings
15:00 - 17:30
Symposium 13: New
biomedical materials.
Keynote speaker:
Paul Gatenholm (Sweden)
9:00 - 11:30
Symposium 16:
Bioprocessing.
Keynote speaker:
Tim Bugg (UK)
Symposium 15: Folding and
secretion of recombinant
proteins.
Keynote Speaker:
Imre Berger (Germany)
Gala Evening
19:30 - 23:30
Wednesday
16 July
Symposium 14: Plant
genetic engineering.
Keynote speaker:
John Pickett (UK)
Symposium 17:
Development of new
vaccines.
Keynote speaker:
Paula Alves (Portugal)
Symposium 18: Exploitation
of metagenomics for
environmental and
biocatalytic applications.
Keynote speaker: Elizabeta
Bonch-Osmolovskaya (Russia)
Symposium 19: Evolutionary
strategies for
cell factory development.
Keynote speaker: Jack Pronk
(Netherlands)
Symposium 20: Systems
biocatalysis.
Keynote speaker:
Harald Gröger (Germany)
11:30 - 12:30
Plenary: Systems Biology
Prof. Sang Yup Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
12:30 - 13:00
Closing Ceremony and Awards Presentations
To register or for further information please visit www.ecb16.com Organised by the European Federation of Biotechnology
© TFI Group 2014

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