MB 4.0
MB 4.0: Dutch microbial biotechnology in action
Monday November 6th 2017, TU Delft Sports and Culture, Theater Auditorium
Mekelweg 10, building 38, Delft
9:30 – 10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00 - 10:10 Introduction Herwig Bachmann, NIZO/VU Amsterdam
10:10 - 10:40 Marcel Wubbolts, Corbion
Biotechnology at Corbion; towards the circular economy
10:40 - 11:00 Ruud Weusthuis, Wageningen University
Ethyl acetate production by the elusive alcohol acetyltransferase from yeasts
11:00 - 11:20 Joyce Mulder, NIZO/University Groningen
Unleashing natural competence in Lactococcus lactis by induction of the competence regulator ComX
11:20 - 11:40 Karel Olavarria, TUD
Efficient Sugar2Plastic conversion: Homo PHB fermentation in E. coli
11:40- 12:10 Poster pitches
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch, poster session and networking
14:00 - 14:50 Guest lecture: Kevin Verstrepen, Leuven University, Belgium
Studying the yeasts of yesterday to generate the beer yeasts of tomorrow
14:50 - 15:20 Mike Jetten, Sebastian Luecker, Radboud University Nijmegen
Ecophysiology of new nitrogen cycle micro-organisms
15:20 - 15:40 Willi Gottstein, VU Amsterdam
Deriving flux distributions from metabolite time-courses using genome-scale stoichiometric models
15:40 - 16:25 Coffee break and poster session
16:25 - 16:45 Hein Trip, Leiden University
Co-cultivation as an approach to wake up silent secondary metabolite gene clusters: a case study in Aspergillus niger
16:45 – 17:05 Peter Punt, Dutch DNA
Dutch DNA
17:05- 17:40 Closing lecture, Christophe Danelon, TUD
Bottom-up approach to a minimal cell
17:40 Drinks