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Short information for authors on theforms and duration of presentations:

• Plenary lectures (45’including the discussion)
• Invited lectures (30’ including the discussion)
• Oral presentations (20’ including the discussion) 

Poster session:

• The poster display area is 1.20 m high and 0.90 m wide.

 

Invited lectures

Bommarius, Andreas Georgia Institute of Technology, UNITED STATES  Towards New Enzymes with New Design Criteria	Bornscheuer, Uwe T.             University of Greifswald, GERMANY Discovering and Engineering of Novel Enzymes for the Depolymerization of Polyurethanes
Hall, Mélanie               University of Graz, AUSTRIA Biocatalytic Hydronitration of Alpha, Beta-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acids: Scope and Challenges	Hilvert, Donald ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND Designing Enzymes de novo
Hollfelder, Florian University of Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM How Do We Find New Functional Proteins  in Sequence Space?	Martins, Ligia O Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PORTUGAL Engineering Bacterial Oxidoreductases for Enzymatic Bioprocesses Targeting Lignocellulose Components
Perczel, András Eötvös L. University, HUNGARY Drug-drug Interactions and Ligand Binding Promiscuity in Serine Proteases Revealed by the First Cryo-EM Structures of Mammalian Acylaminoacyl Peptidase	Tasnádi, Gábor Servier Research Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, HUNGARY From “off-the-shelf” Enzymes to Cell-free Engineering

 

Oral presentations

Antonopoulou, Io Luleå University of Technology, SWEDEN Carbonic Anhydrase as Promoted in Carbon Capture: Discovery of Ultrastable Enzymes, Screening, Characterization and Application	Bayer, Thomas University of Greifswald, GERMANY Identification and Engineering of Promiscuous Amidases for Multi-purpose Applications
Beatty, Meagan Toulouse Biotechnology Institute Catalysis and Enzyme Molecular Engineering INSA, FRANCE A Deep Dive into the Underexplored Marine Halophilic Viral Glycoside Hydrolase Guided by Sequence-based Metaviromics	Catucci, Gianluca University of Turin, ITALY Discovery and Characterization of a Novel Bacterial Lignin-degrading Dye-Decolorizing Peroxidase
Conte, Melissa TU Darmstadt, GERMANY Structural and Functional Insights to Novel Sialic Acid Synthases for Biocatalysis	Cuesta Hoyos, Sebastian A. University of Manchester/ Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, UNITED KINGDOM Deciphering the Biosynthesis of Peptides with β-Lactone Warheads: Enzymatic Assembly and Mechanistic Insights
Debruyne, Romain Université Libre de Bruxelle BELGIUM Computational Insights Into Enzyme Stability-Activity Trade-off	Maršavelski, Aleksandra University of Zagreb, CROATIA Discovery and Engineering of Thermostable Metagenomic Esterases for Polyester Depolymerization
Gal, Lilla University of Graz, AUSTRIA Expanding the Substrate Scope of Acyltransferases in C-C bond Formation Reactions	Godehard, Simon P. BRAIN Biotech AG, GERMANY Leveraging the Unexplored Sequence Space for Industrial Enzyme Solutions
Góra, Artur Silesian University of Technology, POLAND Discovery and Rational Design of Hydrolases for Polyurethane Degradation	Granit, Pauline KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SWEDEN Metal Promiscuity in Present-day and Ancestral Terpene Cyclases
Hermans, Pauline Université Libre de Bruxelles, BELGIUM Predicting Enzyme Fitness by Combining Structural and (co)evolutionary Methods	Hidalgo, Aurelio Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, SPAIN Reproducing the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology at the Single-molecule Level for Ultrahigh-throughput Library Screening
Incze, Dániel J. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HUNGARY Understanding the Molecular Mechanism of Fumonisin Esterases by Kinetic and Structural Studies	Joosten, Henk-Jan Bio-Prodict, NETHERLANDS 3DM Engineering; Combining 3DM Protein Family Platforms and AI Disrupts Protein Engineering
Lanza, Lucrezia University of Freiburg, GERMANY A Novel Thiamine Diphosphate-dependent Lyase with an Unusual Cofactor-binding Motif for the Synthesis of Tertiary Alcohols	Lei, Xiaoguang Peking University, CHINA Opportunities for Merging Chemical and Biological Synthesis
Londi, Giacomo University of Pisa, ITALY Protein-Driven Electron-Transfer Process in a Fatty Acid Photodecarboxylase	Mayer, Clemens University of Groningen, NETHERLANDS A Continuous Evolution Platform to Make Defluorinases fit for PFAS Degradation
Moellebjerg, Andreas Aarhus University, DENMARK Hunting for Plastic-degrading Enzymes Using Fluorescence-assisted Cell Sorting	Mohit, Mohit University of Hyderabad, INDIA Engineering Hydroxynitrile Lyases for the Sustainable Biocatalytic Synthesis of Chiral Cyanohydrins
Möller, Christina University of Greifswald, GERMANY Creation of Universal Blood for ABO Blood Group Independent Transfusion	Oroz-Guinea, Isabel University of Graz, AUSTRIA Biocatalytic Sulfation of Aromatic and Aliphatic Alcohols Catalyzed by Arylsulfate Sulfotransferases
Pietruszka, Jörg Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, GERMANY Prenyltransferases in the Synthesis of Pyrroloindoles	Potocki-Veronese, Gabrielle Toulouse Biotechnology Institute INSAT INRAE, FRANCE Unlocking the Opportunities of Microbiomics  for the Discovery of Carbohydrate-active Enzymes
Manuel Ferrer Institut of Catalysis, CSIC, SPAIN Innovative Strategies for Discovering Rare Mycotoxin-degrading Enzymes to Enhance Food and Feed Safety	Rigkos, Konstantinos BSRC "Alexander Fleming" Institute for Bioinnovation (IBI), GREECE An Extremozyme Tailored for Decarbonization: CA-KR1, an Inherently Ultra-stable Carbonic Anhydrase for Biomimetic CO2 Capture
Schallmey, Anett Technische Universität Braunschweig, GERMANY Novel Halohydrin Dehalogenases Carrying Variations in HHDH-Specific Sequence Motifs	Schönauer, David Aminoverse B.V., NETHERLANDS Contribution of AI Into Enzyme Engineering – AI-evolved Enzymes for Low-sugar foods
Teune, Michelle University of Greifswald, GERMANY Carbohydrate Esterases of Family CE20 Operate via an Undescribed Diluted Catalytic Triad	Wang, Yane-Shih Academia Sinica Life Science Institute of Biological Chemistry, TAIWAN Site-specific Histidine aza-Michael Addition in Proteins Enabled by a Ferritin-based Metalloenzyme
Weissensteiner, Florian University of Graz, AUSTRIA Directed Evolution of a Photodecarboxylase for New-To-Nature C-C Bond Formations	Zickler, Emil Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, GERMANY Selective Rubber Breakdown via Engineered Rubber Oxygenase Enzymes

 

Poster presentations

Ágoston, Gyopárka

Babeș-Bolyai University, ROMANIA

Exploring the biocatalytic potential of novel aromatic ammonia-lyases

 

Andreadaki, Theofania

Autonomous University of Madrid, SPAIN

Exploration of metagenomic sequence space for the PEP-dependent N-acetylneuraminic acid synthase protein family

 

Anghel, Anca-Elena

Babeș-Bolyai University, ROMANIA

One-pot, chemoenzymatic synthesis of 3-(2-furyl)alanine starting from furfural

 

Barabás, Laura Edit

Babeș-Bolyai University, ROMANIA

Diol-Icious Catalysis: The Case Of The Selectivity Of Human Carbonic Anhydrase

 

Baumann, Tobias

AstraZeneca, UNITED KINGDOM

Nicotinamide N-Methyltransferase – A versatile catalyst for regio- and chemoselective drug molecule methylation

 

Baumert, Benjamin

University of Greifswald, GERMANY

Enzymatic synthesis of the natural antioxidants grevillic acid and hydroxycinnamic acid amides

 

Brtan, Lucija

University of Zagreb, CROATIA

Engineering Thermostable and Soluble PLA-Degrading Enzymes through Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction

 

Burridge, Matt

Newcastle University, UNITED KINGDOM

Development of a Data-Focused High-Throughput Enzyme Characterisation Pipeline Using Lab Robotics and Cell Free Systems

 

Cecchini, Davide A

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), SPAIN

Discovery of novel enzymes for 2 C modified nucleoside analogue synthesis using functional metagenomics

 

Coelho, Catarina

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PORTUGAL

Characterization of a new lactate dehydrogenase from Porcellio dilatatus gut microbiome

 

Csechala, Lina

University of Greifswald, GERMANY

O-Dealkylation of a substrate panel catalyzed by unspecific peroxygenases

 

Dargó, Gergő

Servier Research Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, HUNGARY

N-Heterocycle scope of metagenomic 2’-deoxy-ribosyltransferases

 

Desmet, Martin

UCLouvain, BELGIUM

Conversion of a dd-peptidase into a beta-lactamase by directed evolution under optimized safety conditions

 

Dimcheva, Nina D.

Plovdiv University, BULGARIA

Evaluation of phenolic acids content in herbal extracts with laccase-based biosensors

 

Eiermann, Aron

Proteineer GmbH, GERMANY

GeneStore, a protein search engine for very large data sets with rapid filtering capabilities.

 

Emődi, Nikolett

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HUNGARY

Biocatalysts for Food Safety: The Search for Efficient Zearalenone Hydrolases

 

Frazão, Tomás

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PORTUGAL

Structural Determinants of Substrate Specificity in a Novel Bacterial Copper Radical Oxidase

 

Gaják, Viktor Zsolt

Servier Research Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, HUNGARY

Discovery of novel nucleoside 2’-deoxyribosyltransferases for the synthesis of modified nucleosides

 

Genz, Ferdinand

University of Freiburg, GERMANY

Identification and Characterisation of Pyrimidine Nucleoside 2′-Hydroxylase

 

Girkens, Max Peter

University of Freiburg, GERMANY

Substrate promiscuity of fungal laccases

 

Hamzavinejad, Moghaddam Parisa

Johnson Matthey, UNITED KINGDOM

Advances in enzyme engineering: A case study using alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH)

 

Iliev, Ilia

Plovdiv University, BULGARIA

Site-Saturation Mutagenesis Study on the second domain of Glycosyltransferase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides URE 13-300

 

Iszlai, András E.

Babeș-Bolyai University, ROMANIA

Multienzymatic cascade for the synthesis of D-phenylalanines

 

Kawaus, Corinna

University of Graz, AUSTRIA

Biocatalytic Synthesis of Medium- and Large-sized Lactones

 

Koeppl, Lars-Hendrik

University of Freiburg, GERMANY

SAH or SIH? Sequence-Function Relationship of S-Adenosyl-L-homocysteine Hydrolases

 

Lajus, Sophie

INSA Toulouse TBI, FRANCE

A new screening workflow for the discovery of mucin-degrading enzymes

 

Logotheti, Maria

University of Greifswald, GERMANY

Integrating Photochemical Oxyfunctionalization with Enzymatic Catalysis for the Synthesis of Chiral Pyrrolidines and Azepanes

 

Lopes, Tiago D H

ITQB - NOVA University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL

Characterization and engineering of a bacterial GalOx with enhanced substrate specificity

 

Mendonca, Catarina F T P

Denmarks Technical University, DENMARK

Engineering Sucrose Synthase Towards Sustainable Glycosylation Reactions

 

Nagy, Blanka-Eszter

Babes-Bolyai University, ROMANIA

Enhanced activity assays for monitoring the enzymatic PET-hydrolysis

 

Nikolova, Mariana

Plovdiv University, BULGARIA

Transglycosylation of gallic acid and chlorogenic acid  in waste from the rose oil industry using glycosyltransferase mutants

 

Oraic, Mario

University of Zagreb, CROATIA

Functional role of the N-terminal domain in novel metagenomic esterases

 

Ou, Zhen

Newcastle University, UNITED KINGDOM

In-silico approaches for optimising the high-throughput characterisation of biocatalytic enzymes

 

Paizs, Csaba

Babes-Bolyai University, ROMANIA

Bio-based 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural is a remarkable substrate for preparative-scale transaminase - human carbonic anhydrase enzymatic cascades

 

Primo, Emiliano D.

Université Catholique de Louvain, BELGIUM

Unconventional Splicing of Bacterial Intein-Like Domain: Insights and Biotechnological Potential

 

Schönauer, David

Aminoverse B.V., NETHERLANDS

Novel compounds deriving from biocatalytic processes – KGOs the oxyfunctionalization experts on metabolites

 

Scrob, Diana

Babes-Bolyai University, ROMANIA

Biocatalytic Transformation of α-halo-ketones by Human Carbonic Anhydrase II: Synthesis of Enantiopure Alcohols and Epoxides

 

Szemes, József

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HUNGARY

Investigation of Increasing the Efficiency of Cariprazine TACE-intermediate Production by Isomerization Reactions Catalyzed by Transaminases

 

Tantillo, Chiara

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SWEDEN

LMCO2: the expression and the application

 

Telek, András

Servier Research Institute Medicinal Chemistry, HUNGARY

Cell-free enzyme engineering for biocatalysis

 

Tierney, Josh

University of Exeter, UNITED KINGDOM

Developing a enzymatic toolbox for biofilm control

 

Valles, Sáez Alejo

Ainia Technologies, SPAIN

Influence of washing on the valorization of fruit and vegetable waste by enzymatic hydrolysis

 

van Vliet, Liisa

University of Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM

Functional metagenomics in microfluidic droplets: ultra-high throughput screening assays for a green and circular economy

 

Vrabl, Stephan

University of Graz, AUSTRIA

Computational- & Structure-Guided Design of P450 Peroxygenase Variants with  Improved Hydrogen Peroxide Stability

 

Wolf, Yannick L.

University of Greifswald, GERMANY

A degradation pathway of the marine polysaccharide ulvan – Identification of involved enzymes derived from Formosa agariphila