Microbiology
Emerging Applications of Microbes (2nd edition)
7-8 December 2022, Leuven, Belgium
Emerging Applications of Microbes (2nd edition)
Emerging Applications of Microbes (2nd edition)
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Kevin Verstrepen
Jeroen Raes
Nico Callewaert
Alain Goossens
Han Remaut
Jens Nielsen
Joleen Masschelein
Sibylle Vonesch
Evy Vierstraete
We are pleased to announce the second edition of the VIB Conference ‘Emerging Applications of Microbes’. This international conference will take place December 7th-8th 2022 in the beautiful historic city of Leuven.
The field of microbiology is moving exceptionally fast, in part because it can take full advantage of the new developments in microscopy, computational biology, synthetic biology, biomaterials, and single-cell technologies.
The new breakthroughs and technologies in microbiology not only allow a better basic understanding of microbes and life in general, they also open new routes in applied and industrial microbiology. This conference is specifically aimed at the links between the newest knowledge and applications.
We aim to provide you with a platform to discuss and exchange ideas with fellow researchers with session topics such as:
- Applications in agriculture/in mitigation of climate change
- New tech for microbial synthetic biology/ or applications
- Applications in Human Health
- Microorganisms as a source of novel biomaterials
- Applications in a circular economy
Information for poster submissions
The format for your poster should be: A0 (841 x 1189 mm / 33.1 x 46.8 in), portrait orientation. All accepted poster submissions will have a chance to win the Nature Microbiology Poster Prize.
Confirmed speakers
Irina Borodina
Irina Borodina
DTU BIOSUSTAIN, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DK
Jos Raaijmakers
Jos Raaijmakers
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) & Leiden University, NL
Birgitte Regenberg
Birgitte Regenberg
Department of Biology, Section for Ecology and Evolution, University of Copenhagen, DK
Verena Siewers
Verena Siewers
Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Division of Systems and Synthetic Biology, SE
Claudia Vickers
Claudia Vickers
Eden Brew, Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University, AU
Program
Day 1 - Wednesday, 07 December, 2022
08:30
09:05
Registration & coffee
09:05
09:15
Welcome
Session 1: Applications in agriculture/in mitigation of climate change
Chair: Vitor Bernardes Pinheiro & Joleen Masschelein
09:15
09:45
Back to the Roots
Jos Raaijmakers
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) & Leiden University, NL
09:45
10:15
Microbial production of AGROBODY™ biocontrols for agricultural applications
Alrik Los
Biotalys NV, BE
10:15
10:45
Plant growth with a help from the microbe friends
Sofie Goormachtig
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, BE
10:45
11:15
Coffee break
11:15
11:30
Dimalis: a new pipeline to facilitate learning of important microbial trends from time-lapse images
Helena Todorov
Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, CH
Selected from abstracts
11:30
12:00
Fermented pheromones – a sustainable solution for plant protection from insect pests
Irina Borodina
DTU BIOSUSTAIN, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DK
12:00
12:05
Flash talk 1: A focus on design for microbial cell factory development
Sara Moreno-Paz
Wageningen University and Research, NL
Selected from abstracts
12:05
12:10
Flash talk 2: Developing tools for monitoring cellular properties during yeast fermentation
Raquel Perruca Foncillas
Lund University, SE
Selected from abstracts
12:10
12:15
Flash talk 3: CO2-dependent anaerobic co-fermentation of glucose and sorbitol to increase ethanol yields
Aafke C.A. van Aalst
Delft University of Technology, NL
Selected from abstracts
12:15
12:20
Flash talk 4: Brewing anticancer medicine in yeast
Michael Krogh Jensen
Technical University of Denmark, DK
Selected from abstracts
12:20
12:25
Flash talk 5: Accuracy and data efficiency in deep learning models of protein expression
Evangelos-Marios Nikolados
School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, GB
Selected from abstracts
12:25
12:30
Finding the right tools for your synthetic biology workflow
Maria Savino
Ph.D, Field Marketing Manager, Beckman Coulter, EU
Sponsored talk
12:30
13:30
Lunch
13:30
14:30
Poster session
Session 2: New tech for microbial synthetic biology/ or applications
Chair: Nico Callewaert & Sibylle Vonesch
14:30
15:00
Engineering yeast to brew medicines via an integrated systems approach
Christina Smolke
Stanford University / Bioengineering / Antheia, US
15:00
15:30
Synthetic biology tools for reengineering biological systems
Claudia Vickers
Eden Brew, Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University, AU
15:30
16:00
CRISPR tools for high-throughput genome perturbation in microbes
Sibylle Vonesch
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, BE
16:00
16:30
Coffee break
16:30
16:45
Emerging applications of microbial single cell genomics
Ramunas Stepanauskas
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, US
Selected from abstracts
16:45
17:15
Biology by Design: Organism Engineering at Ginkgo
Patrick Boyle
Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., US
17:15
17:45
Metabolite biosensors in yeast metabolic engineering
Verena Siewers
Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Division of Systems and Synthetic Biology, SE
17:45
18:45
Reception
18:45
20:00
Social activity
20:00
22:30
Conference dinner
Additional fee
Day 2 - Thursday, 08 December, 2022
08:15
09:00
Registration & coffee
Session 3: Applications in Human Health
Chair: Jeroen Raes & Kevin Verstrepen
09:00
09:30
Causes and consequences of microbiome variation
Andy Goodman
Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, US
09:30
10:00
Microbial function modulation through precision evolution and xenobiotics
Kiran Patil
MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
10:00
10:30
What Saccharomyces cerevisiae teaches us about circular DNA in eukaryotes
Birgitte Regenberg
Department of Biology, Section for Ecology and Evolution, University of Copenhagen, DK
10:30
11:00
Coffee break
11:00
11:15
Use of the OPENPichia yeast protein expression toolbox for rapid prototyping of affinity-enhanced heavy chain-only antibody variants against SARS-CoV-2
Loes van Schie
VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, BE; Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, BE
Selected from abstracts
11:15
11:45
OPENPichia and engineering of Pichia-based manufacturing of antibodies for combatting infectious disease
Nico Callewaert
VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, BE
11:45
12:15
Bacteriophages as a source for new antibacterial design strategies and biotechnological applications
Rob Lavigne
Laboratory of Gene Technology, KU Leuven, BE
12:15
12:20
Flash talk 6: Genetic and environmental circadian disruption induce metabolic alteration through changes in the gut microbiome
Baraa Altaha
Chair of Nutrition and Immunology, Technical University of Munich, DE; ZIEL - Institute for Food & Health, Technical University of Munich, DE
Selected from abstracts
12:20
12:25
Flash talk 7: Supplementation with Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG chewables as a clinical strategy against allergic rhinitis
Irina Spacova
Research Group Environmental Ecology and Applied Microbiology, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, BE
Selected from abstracts
12:25
12:30
Flash talk 8: Pathway engineering using recombination-based expression optimization in yeast
Charlotte Cautereels
KU Leuven - VIB Center for Microbiology, BE
Selected from abstracts
12:30
12:35
Flash talk 9: Metabolic engineering approaches for improved production of plecomacrolides in actinomycetes
Filipa Pereira
University of Michigan, US
Selected from abstracts
12:35
12:40
Flash talk 10: A novel Cas3 base-editor for efficient directed evolution of complex metabolic pathways in S. cerevisiae
Anna Zimmermann
VIB | Lab for Systems Biology, Center for Microbiology, BE; KU Leuven | Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, BE
Selected from abstracts
12:40
12:45
Flash talk 11: Nature-inspired microbial processes for urban biomining: harnessing the oxalate-carbonate pathway for lithium recovery
Patrick Hilpisch
Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Neuchâtel, CH
Selected from abstracts
12:45
12:50
SPCs - innovative technology to analyse millions of microbes at single-cell resolution
Vaidotas Kiseliovas
Droplet Genomics, LT
Sponsored talk
12:50
13:50
Lunch
13:50
14:45
Poster session 2
Session 4: Microorganisms as a source of novel biomaterials
Chair: Han Remaut
14:45
15:15
Biosynthesis of plant natural products by genomic analysis and synthetic biology approaches
Huifeng Jiang
Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, CN
15:15
15:45
How microbes discovered electricity way before Alessandro Volta
Filip Meysman
University of Antwerp, BE
15:45
16:00
Engineering Escherichia coli to produce oleochemicals
Paul Matthay
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, BE; KU Leuven Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, BE
Selected from abstracts
16:00
16:30
Coffee break
Session 5: Applications in a circular economy
Chair: Han Remaut
16:30
17:00
Microbial solutions to the climate crisis
Arpita Bose
Washington University in St. Louis, US
17:00
17:15
Metabolic Engineering Strategies for Sustainably Producing Oleochemicals in Microbes
Brian Pfleger
University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Selected from abstracts
17:15
17:45
Living Microbial Photo Hybrids to Produce Solar Fuels and Chemicals from Carbon Dioxide
Shafeer Kalathil
Northumbria University, UK
17:45
17:55
Closing remarks & Poster prize ceremony
Organizing committee
Kevin Verstrepen
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, BE
Jeroen Raes
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, BE
Nico Callewaert
VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, BE
Alain Goossens
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems biology, BE
Han Remaut
VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, BE
Jens Nielsen
Chalmers University of Technology & DTU Biosustain, SE
Joleen Masschelein
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, BE
Sibylle Vonesch
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, BE
Evy Vierstraete
VIB Training & Conferences, BE
Abstracts
The full list of abstracts will be available on 30-11-2022 until 21-12-2022
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
Attendees
The full list of attendees will be available on 30-11-2022 until 21-12-2022
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
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