Scientific program almost complete

The program will be divided in four sessions covering metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, industrial biotechnology, microbial communities. With the program almost complete, the first presentation titles of the speakers were announced.

You can find some of them below, and all on the conference website. 

David Berry, University of Vienna, AT
Exploring microbial communities using single-cell isotope probing

Jef Boeke, NYU Langone Health, US
The Dark Matter Project

Francesca Ceroni, imperial College London, UK
Development of synthetic biology tools to investigate cellular burden in bacteria and engineer more robust gene expression

Angela E. Douglas, Cornell University, US
Insect Microbiomes: Biomedical model and target for insect pest control

Morten Sommer, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability DK
Using synthetic biology to manage bacteria

Dan Jarosz, Stanford University, US
Using microbes to map drivers of phenotypic change: within and between species

Teresa Teixeira, CNRS, FR
How telomeres control cell proliferation: lessons from budding yeast

Jens Nielsen, Chalmers University, SE
Metabolic engineering of yeast for production of fuels and chemicals

Karen Polizzi, Imperial College London, UK
Genetically-encoded biosensors for bioprocess development

Sam Possemiers, ProDigest BVBA, BE
Development of an oral Live Biotherapeutic Product for IBD: exploiting microbiome expertise to accelerate clinical development