Speakers

Health & Medicine

“Innovative Medicines Initiative,” Monday, 14 September 2009, 10:30 - 12:30.

10:30 Chair: Bernd Rainer IMI JU, CommissionDG Research - Directorate Health - IMI JU CDMA, Brussels, Belgium.
     Lecture Title: “IMI - Past experience and future options”

11:00: Ferran Sanz Carreras, IMIM, Agència de Gestió Ajuts Universitaris de Recerca
     Lecture Title: “Insilico prediction of in vivo toxicity: The IMI eTox Project”.

11:30: Eduard Valentí, Esteve, Barcelona, Spain.
     Lecture Title: “IMI: Pharmaceutical Industry (EFPIA) perspective”.

12:00: Jordi Quintana, Parc Científicde Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
     Lecture Title: “The Chembiobank Project:Building Annotated Molecular Libraries for Drug Discovery”

12:15: Javier Urzay, Farmaindustria, Madrid, Spain.
     Lecture Title: “Mobilizing local resources in pharmaceutical R&D: theSpanish participation in IMI”.

“Personalised Medicine - Diagnostics & Imaging,” Monday, 14 September 2009, 14:00 - 16:00.

Chair: Julio Celis, Institute of Cancer Biology, Danish Centre for Human Genome Research Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.

14:00: Yosef Yarden, Department of Biological Regulation, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
     Lecture Title: “Systemic approaches to oncogenic networks andto pharmaceutical perturbations”.

14:30: Julio Celis, Institute of Cancer Biology, Danish Centre for Human Genome Research Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.
     Lecture Title: “Proteomic Strategies in Breast Cancer Research”.

15:00: Leonard Fass, GE Healthcare, UK; Imperial College Department of Bioengineering, London, UK.
     Lecture Title: “Imaging Biomarkers in Disease Management”.

15:30: Thomas Reiss, FraunhoferInstitute Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
     Lecture Title: “Implications of Personalised Medicine for the Health Economy”.

“Cell Therapeutics,” Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 10:30 - 12:30.

10:30 Chair: C. James Kirkpatrick, Institute of Pathology, JohannesGutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.

10:34: Stephen Minger, Stem Cell Laboratory, King’s College London, UK.
     Lecture Title: “Therapeutic and Research Potential of Human Stem Cells- Prospects and Challenges”.

10:59: Ivan Martin, Institute for Surgical Research, University of Basel, Switzerland.
     Lecture Title: “Mesenchymal stem cell expansion in 3D perfusion systems”.

11:24: C. James Kirkpatrick, Institute of Pathology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
     Lecture title “Biomaterial-based approaches and adult stem cells”.

“Advances in Gene & Drug Delivery,” Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 14:00 -16:00.

14:00: Daan J.A. Crommelin, Dutch Top Institute Pharma, Leiden, The Netherlands.
     Lecture Title: “Nanotechnological approaches for targeted drug delivery: hype or hope?”

14:30: Gerrit Borchard, Laboratory of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
     Lecture Title: “Do as the virus do: Advances in vaccine delivery systems”.

15:00: Robert Müller, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland.
     Lecture Title: “Challenges for the development of therapeutic protein formulations”.

15:30: , E. Fernández-González, Departamento Biología Molecular (Universidad de Cantabria) & IBBTEC (UC-CSIC-IDICAN), Santander, Spain.
     Lecture Title: “Bacterial Type IV Secretion Systems: A Tool for DNA Transfer into Mammalian Cells”.

15:45: Emanuele Papini, Dept. Biomedical Sciences and CRIBI, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
     Lecture Title: “Size-Controlled and Stealth Silica-Based Nano-Spheres as Potential Drug Carriers”.

“Nanomedicine," Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 10:30 - 12:30.

10:30 Chair: Maria García Parajo, Institut de Bioenginyeriade Catalunya (IBEC) Parc Científic de Barcelona Campus Diagonal Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
     Introduction and Lectura, Lecture title: “Optical tools for nanoscale imaging”.

10:55: Jon Dobson, Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Fellow, Insitute for Science &Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK. 
     Lecture Title: “Remote Control of Cells and Delivering Genes Using Magnetic Nanoparticles”.

11:25: Molly Stevens, Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Material, Imperial College, UK.

11:45: Xavier Fernández-Busquets, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
     Lecture Title: “Nature-Inspired Systems for Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine”.

12:00: Elena García-Fruitós, CIBER-BBN Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
     Lecture Title: “Bacterial Inclusion Bodies as Novel Functional and Biocompatible Nanomaterials”.

“Translational Medicine,” Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 14:00 - 16:00.

14:00 Chair: Carl A.K. Borrebaeck, Department of Immunotechnology, Lund University, Sweden. Introduction

14:05: Donal Brennan, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
     Lecture Title: “Profiling microRNAs in breast cancer tissue microarrays linked to patient outcome”.

14:35: Manel Esteller, Director PEBC Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program, Barcelona, Spain.
     Lecture Title: “The impact of epigenetics on the treatment of patients”.

15:05: Mark O’Connor, KuDOS Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Cambridge, UK
     Lecture Title: “DNA repair as a basis for therapy”.

15:35: Carl A.K. Borrebaeck, Department of Immunotechnology, Lund University, Sweden. Introduction
     Lecture Title: “Implementing affinity proteomics into the clinic– diagnosis and prediction of metastatic breast cancer”.

Industrial Biotechnology

“Novel Enzymes & Microorganisms,” Monday, 14 September 2009, 10:30 - 12:30.

Chair: Roland Wohlgemuth, Sigma-Aldrich, Buchs, Switzerland.

10:30: Jose A. Salas, Insituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Austurias, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.
     Lecture Title: “Engineering biosynthetic pathways by combinatorialbiosynthesis to generate novel bioactive compounds in Actinomycetes”.

11:00: Hideaki Oikawa, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido Universistical Kita-kuKita, Sapporo, Japan.
     Lecture Title: “Biosynthetic Engineering on antitumor peptide antibiotics”.

11:30: Kathrin Hölsch, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.
     Lecture Title: “New Oxidoreductases from Cyanobacteriafor Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Alcohols”.

11:45: Linda Otten, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.
     Lecture Title: “New Nitrile Hydratases for Enantioselective Biocatalysis”.

12:00: Tobias Heck, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
     Lecture title: “β-Aminopeptidases: Enzymatic Degradation and Synthesis of β-Amino Acid Containing Peptides and Kinetic Resolution of β-Amino Acid Amides”.

12:15: Eduardo García-Junceda, Instituto de Química Orgánica General. CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
     Lecture title: “Cloning and Expression of a Putative Rhamnulose-1-PhosphateAldolase from the Hyperthermophilic Eubacterium Thermotoga maritime”.

“Biocatalyst Function & Optimization,” Monday, 14 September 2009, 14:00 - 16:00.

14:00: Jennifer Littlechild, Biocatalysis Center, The Henry Wellcome Building for Biocatalysis University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
     Lecture Title: “Thermophilic enzymes as stable biocatalyst”.

14:30: Dagmar Ringe, Brandeis University, USA.
     Lecture Title: “Chaperoning Unstable Proteins”.

15:20: Marco W. Fraaije, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
     Lecture Title: “Optimizing monooxygenases for oxidative biocatalysis”.

“Biocatalytic Process Design,” Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 10:30 - 12:30

Chair: Marcel Wubbolts, DSM White Biotechnology, Delft, The Netherlands.

10:30: John Woodley, DTU Copenhagen, Denmark.
     Lecture Title: “Tools for Biocatalytic Process Design”.

11:00: Oliver May, DSM Pharmaceutical Products, Geleen, The Netherlands. 
     Lecture Title: “Biocatalysis: green processes by design”.

11:30: Frank Baganz, University College London - Biochemical Engineering, London, UK.
     Lecture Title: “Towards engineering of de novo pathways for synthesis of chiral chemicals using in vitro and in vivo approaches”.

11:45: Peter Neubauer, Department of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; BioSilta Oy, Oulu, Finland.
     Lecture Title: “EnBaseTM – MTP based high-cell-density fermentation for high-throughput and high-content screening”.

12:00: Emma Piacentini, Institute on Membrane Technology, National Research Council, ITM-CNR and Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.
     Lecture Title: “New developments for the controlled fabrication of microstructured multiphase bioreactor using membrane emulsification technology”.

12:00: Findrik Zvjezdana, Department for Reaction Engineering and Catalysis , University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska).
     Lecture Title: “Oxygen influence on amino acid oxidative deamination catalyzed by different amino acid oxidases”.

“Innovative Downstream Processing,” Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 14:00 - 16:00.

Chair: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Muthgasse, Vienna, Austria.

14:00: E. K. Lee, Bioprocessing Research Lab., Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang Univeristy, Republic of Korea.
     Lecture Title: “Case studies of ITC analyses on protein interactions with adsorbents and ions”.

14:30: Massimo Morbidelli, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Zurich, Switzerland.
     Lecture Title: “Purification of monoclonal antibodies by continuous chromatography (MCSGP)”.

15:00: Jürgen Friedle
     Lecture Title: “Innovative high throughput protein purification in 96-array format”.

15:30: Roelands Mark, TNO Science & Industry, Separation Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
     Lecture Title: “Developing a toolbox of novel separation processes for bioproducts”.

“Microbial Genomics,” Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 10:30 - 12:30.

Chair: Jeff Cole, School of Biosciences, TheUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

10:30: Manuel Ferrer, CSIC, Institutode Catálisis, Madrid, Spain
     Lecture Title: “How to provide biotech companiesand research centers the undiscoverable?”

11:00: Rolf Müller, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, German
     Lecture Title: “Genomics and Secondary Metabolomics of Myxobacteria: Cool Bugs for novel Drugs”

11:30: Michael Y. Galperin, National Center for Biotechnology Information Bethesda, MD, USA.
     Lecture Title: “Microbial Genomics: From a Complete Sequence to Complete Understanding”.

12:00: Diethard Mattanovich, Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, School of Bioengineering, University of Applied Sciences FH-Campus Wien, Vienna, Austria
     Lecture Title: “Genome Sequence, Secretome and Sugar Transport of the Protein Production Host Pichia pastoris”.

“Innovative Fermentation Science & Engineering,” Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 14:00 - 16:00.

Chair: Dirk Weuster-Botz, Lehrstuhl für Bioverfahrenstechnik Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.

14:00: Carl-Fredrik Mandenius, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
     Lecture Title: “Mechatronic Design Methodology for Biotechnology Products”.

14:30: Dirk Weuster-Botz, Lehrstuhl für Bioverfahrenstechnik Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.
     Lecture Title: “Parallel milliliter-scale bioprocess development with stirred-tank disposables”.

15:00: Peter Neubauer, Department of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
     Lecture Title: “UsingEnBaseTM to Enhance Recombinant Protein Production”.

15:15: Matthias Funke, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
     Lecture Title: “Microfluidic Controlled Fermentationsin Microtiter Plates”.

15:30: Timm Tanzeglock, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
     Lecture Title: “Prediction of Cell Damage in Stirred Bioreactors- from Small-Scale Model Systems to a Novel Bioreactor Design”.

15:45: Link Hannes, Technische Universität München, Department of Biochemical Engineering, Garching, Germany.
     Lecture Title: “Metabolic Control Analysis of Cells in Fed-Batch Processes”.

Plant & Environmental Biotechnology

“From Biomass to Biofuels & Biomaterials,” Monday, 14 September 2009, 10:30 - 12:30.

Chair: Wout Boerjan, Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Technologiepark, Ghent; Department of Molecular Genetics, Ghent University, Technologiepark, Ghent, Belgium.

10:30: Marcos Buckeridge, Departamentode Botânica, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
     Lecture Title: “Sustainable biotechnology for cellulosic ethanol in Brazil”

10:55: Vincent Bulone, Biomime Laboratory KTH Wood Biotechnology Stockholm, Sweden.
     Lecture Title: “Fiber engineering based on plant cell wall metabolism”.

11:20: Paul Dupree, Department of Biochemistry Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdon.
     Lecture Title: “Modification of plant cell wall sugar composition for biorefining and bioenergy”.

11:45: Wout Boerjan, Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Technologiepark, Ghent;Department of Molecular Genetics, Ghent University, Technologiepark, Ghent, Belgium.
     Lecture Title: “Systems biology of lignification and relevance for chemical pulping and liquid biofuels”.

12:10: Thomas Senn, Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
     Lecture Title: “Sustainable and Regional Ethanol Production -Energy- and Ecobalances”

“New Products from Plants,” Monday, 14 September 2009, 14:00 - 16:00.

Chair: Yuri Gleba, Icon Genetics GmbH, Halle, Germany, and Nomad Bioscience GmbH, Munich, Germany.

14:00: Julian K-C. Ma, Hotung Chair: of Molecular Immunology Division of Cellular & Molecular Medicine St. George’s, University of London, London, UK.
     Lecture Title: “Molecular Pharming - innovation, product development and manufacture”.

14:30: Kazuki Saito, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Chiba University Chiba, Japan.
     Lecture Title: “Plant Metabolomics: a basis for plant functional genomics and biotechnology”.

15:00: Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany. 
     Lecture Title: “Transgenic plastids as expression factories in biotechnology”.

15:30 Inge Broer, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
     Lecture title: “Synthesis of the Biopolymer Cyanophycinin Tobacco and Potato”

15:45: Sylvestre Marillonnet, Icon Genetics GmbH, Halle(Saale), Germany
     Lecture title: “A One Pot High Throughput Cloning Method for Construct Optimization, Creation of Libraries of Construct Variants, and DNA Shuffling”.

“Molecular Plant Breeding,” Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 10:30 - 12:30.

10:30 Chair: Maarten Koornneef, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.
     Lecture Title: “Arabidopsis natural variation as tool for gene function discovery”.

11:00: Alisher Touraev, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Vienna, Austria.
     Lecture Title: “Higher plant microspores as a tool for genetics, breeding and biotechnology”.

11:30: Delphine Fleury, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Adelaide, Australia. 
     Lecture Title: “From micro-plate to field: genomics for improving abiotic stress tolerance of cereals”.

12:00: Huseyin Tombuloglu, Fatih Universtiy Departmentof Biology, Istanbul, Turkey
     Lecture Title: “Cloning of AtBOR4 Gene to Generate Boron Tolerant Medicago sativa L. (Leguminosae-Fabacea) Cultivars”

12:15: Rosario Adelaida Muñoz-Clares, Facultad de Química UNAM, México
     Lecture Title: “The Relevance of the Complex Kinetics of Chloroplastic Betaine Aldehyde Dehydrogenase for the “in Vivo” Synthesis of the Osmoprotectant Glycine Betaine”.

“Plant Yield,” Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 14:00 - 16:00.

14:00 Chair:Dirk Inzé, Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
     Lecture Title: “The quest for mechanisms regulating plant growth”.

14:30: Wesley Bruce, Senior Research Fellow BASF, Plant Sciences Research, North Carolina, USA. 
     Lecture Title: “Enhancing Agronomic Yield”

15:00: Thomas Altmann, Molecular Genetics, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics & Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany.
     Lecture Title: “Analysis of Arabidopsis natural variation in biomass accumulation and metabolism”.

15:30: Vanessa Cook, Monsanto.
     Lecture Title: “The Role of Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Breeding Techniques in Meeting the Crop Production Demands of a Growing World Population”

“OMICS, "Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 10:30 - 12:30.

10:30: Lothar Willmitzer, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Wissenschaftspark Golm, Germany.
     Lecture Title: “Systems response to environmental conditions as studied by metabolome analysis”.

11:00: Sascha Baginsky, Institute of Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland. 
     Lecture Title: “Functional proteomics: A cornerstone in plant systems biology”.

11:25: Bernd Müller-Röber, Institute of Biochemistry & Biology Molecular Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam-Golm, Germany. 
     Lecture Title: “Gene regulatory networks and transcription factor transcriptomics”.

11:50: H.J. Dirk Bosch, Cluster Metabolic Regulation Plant Research International Wageningen, The Netherlands.
     Lecture Title: “Controlling glycosylation in plants for the production of therapeutic proteins”.

12:15: A. Shirfule, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, India.
     Lecture Title: “Bioassay-Guided Isolation and Molecular Ligand-Target insight of a Glycolate Oxidase Inhibitor from Tribulus terrestris L”.

“Challenges & Responsibilities for Plant Scientists,” Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 14:00 - 16:00.

14:00 Chair: Mr. Willy De Greef, EuropaBio, Brussels, Belgium.

14:30: Mr. Piet van der Meer, Public Research & Regulation Initiative (PRRI), Delft, The Netherlands.
     Lecture Title: “Understanding and engaging in EU regulation of biotechnology. Calling upon decision makers to abide by the law and not to ignore science”.

15:00: Ingo Potrykus, Institute of Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland.
     Lecture Title: “Lessons from Golden Rice on public sector responsibility and failure”.

15:30: George Tzotzos, Technology Unit, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna, Austria.
     Lecture Title: “Impact of regulation on international public biotechnology initiatives”.

Systems Biology & Technology

“Metabolic Engineering,” Monday, 14 September 2009, 10:30 - 12:30.

10:00 Chair: Jens Nielsen, Chalmers, University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden.
     Lecture Title: “Systems Biology of Metabolism: From yeast to human”.

10:30: Gregory Stephanopoulos , Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
     Lecture Title: “Metabolic engineering of isoprenoid metabolism in E. coli for overproduction of Taxol precursors”

11:00: Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Laboratory of Computational Systems Biotechnology Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).
     Lecture Title: “Analysis and synthesis of novel metabolic pathways”.

11:30: Philippe Soucaille, METabolic EXplorer, France
     Lecture Title: “Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum for the Production of Butanol at High Yield”

“Three ways to make life: the Archeon, the Bacterium and the Eukaryon,” Monday, 14 September 2009, 14:00 - 16:00.

14:00 Chair: Hans V. Westerhoff, Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Manchester, EU and Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology, Amsterdam, EU.
     Lecture Title: “The principles of Life, at last”.

14:10: Bettina Siebers, University of Duisburg-Essen & Sulfosys, Germany. 
     Lecture Title: “Some like it hot”.

14:35: Judith Armitage, Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, UK.
     Lecture Title: “Intelligence without a nucleus”.

15:00: Steve Oliver, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge School of Biological Sciences, Cambridge, UK.
     Lecture Title: “Does a eukaryotic cell HAVE to be so complicated?”

15:25: Peter Götz, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
     Lecture Title: “Generation of Regulatory Hypotheses by Descriptive Modeling and Data Integration”

15:39: Hilal Taymaz-Nikerel, Delft University of Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Bioprocess Technology Group, The Netherlands, Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation, The Netherlands
     Lecture Title: “In Vivo Estimation of Energetic Parameters of a Metabolic Network Model for Substrate Limited Growth of E. Coli”

“EcoSystems Biology for the hot planet,” Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 10:30 - 12:30.

10:30 Chair: Hiroaki Kitano , The Systems Biology Institute (SBI ) and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Tokyo, Japan.
     Lecture Title: “A robust planet”.

10:35: Víctor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid, Spain.
     Lecture Title: “Systemic approaches to remediation of environmental pollution”.

11:10: David Graham, Newcastle University, UK.
     Lecture title: “Non-linear dynamic and apparently chaotic behaviour in bioreactors: Fallacies and Determinism”

11:45: Wilfred Röling, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
     Lecture title: “Ecological control analysis”

“Comparative Genomics,” Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 14:00 - 16:00.

14:00: Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Department of Medical Biochemistry & Microbiology Uppsala Universitet, Sweden.
     Lecture Title: “The power of comparative genetics and genomics for finding genes of medical relevance”.

14:30: Elena Giulotto, Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, ‘Adriano Buzzati-Traverso’, Università di Pavia, Italy. 
     Lecture Title: “Neocentromere formation and evolution in the genusEquus”.

15:00: Leo Godstadt, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Univerisity of Oxford, UK.
     Lecture Title: “Mammalian Gene Duplications: an Underappreciated Treasure Trove of Novel Biology”.

15:30: Jennifer R. S. Meadows, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
     Lecture Title: “Whole genome SOLiD resequencing: a powerful tool for the detection of selective sweeps and sequence deletions within domestic chicken”.

“Organisms In Silico,” Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 10:30 - 12:30.

10:30 Chair: Jacky Snoep, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
     Lecture Title: “Construction and validation of a detailed kinetic model for glycolysis in the asexual stage of Plasmodium falciparum;application for drug target identification”.

11:05: Sang Yup Lee, Department Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Kast Gwahangno, Yuseong-gu Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
     Lecture Title: “Metabolic engineering for white biotechnology strengthened by using in silico microorganisms”.

11:40: James C. Liao, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles.
     Lecture Title: “Ensemble modeling for engineering of synthetic phenotypes”.

12:10: Fatma Betul Kavun Ozbayraktar, Department of Chemical Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
     Lecture Title: “Stoichiometric Network Reconstruction and Analysis of Yeast Sphingolipid Metabolism: A Detailed Understanding of the Pathway”

12:20: Judith Wodke, CRG Barcelona/HU Berlin, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
     Lecture Title: “Modeling Mycoplasma pneumoniae Metabolism”

“Affinity Proteomics,” Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 14:00 - 16:00.

14:00 Chair: Mike Taussig, Babraham Bioscience Technologies, Cambridge, UK
     Lecture Title: “Array-based proteomics”.

14:15: Oda Stoevesandt, Babraham Bioscience Technologies, Cambridge, UK.
     Lecture Title: “Repeatable printing of protein microarrays from DNA microarrays”.

14:30: Stefan Duebel, Department of Biotechnology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. 
     Lecture Title: “Proteome scale in vitro antibody selections - Lessons from pilot projects and use of the antibody genes for functional genomics”.

15:00: Marius Ueffing, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany.
     Lecture Title: “Targeting protein networks on a quantitative scale:affinity based approaches to analyse protein networks in health andd isease”.

15:30: Lisa Berglund, School of Biochemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
     Lecture Title: “Antibodypedia– towards a user community for antibody validation data”.