Schedule
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Wednesday October 8 Room: PR105 |
11:00 - 11.30 | Registration, coffee with lunch sandwiches |
| 11:30 - 11.45 |
Welcoming Words Peter Neubauer |
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Session 1 Chairman: Peter Neubauer, TU Berlin and University of Oulu |
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| 11:45 - 12.45 |
Keynote Speaker, Biocenter Oulu Lecture Per Berglund, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Exploiting Catalytic Promiscuity for Biocatalysis. |
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Session 2: Presentations by members of the Finnish Biocatalysis Working Group. Chairman: Peter Neubauer, TU Berlin and University of Oulu. |
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| 12:45 - 13.15 |
Antje Neubauer, BioSilta Oy, Oulu, Finland. EnBase - a new technology for high level protein expression. |
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| 13:15 - 13.45 |
Arto Liljeblad, University of Turku, Finland Presentation about the research in Liisa Kanerva's group |
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| 13:45 - 13:50 |
Tanja Dowe, Innomedica Oy The Tekes SymBio program. |
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| 13:50 - 14.10 | Coffee break. | |
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Session 3 Chairman: Peter Neubauer, TU Berlin and University of Oulu |
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| 14:10 - 14:40 |
Uwe Sauer, University of Umeå, Sweden A C. elegans protein production plattform for eukaryotic proteins |
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| 14:40 - 15:40 |
Jörg Claren, University of Regensburg, Germany De novo design of (βα)8-barrel enzymes with wild-type catalytic activity. |
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| 15:40 - 16:00 | Discussion and Conclusion | |
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Thursday October 9 Room: KE1139 |
Session 4: KETJU-related projects Chairman: Rik Wierenga, University of Oulu, Finland. |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Laura Salusjärvi, VTT, Espoo, Finland Global analysis and approaches to enhance xylose metabolism in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae. |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Marco Casteleijn, University of Oulu, Finland Towards new biocatalytic activity of ATIM by structure based directed evolution. |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Kathleen Szeker, TU Berlin and University of Oulu High throughput methods for the production of thermostable enzymes |
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| 10.30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Matti Vaismaa, University of Oulu, Finland The design, synthesis and evaluation of new substrate candidates based on triosephosphate isomerase. |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Nanna Alho, University of Oulu, Finland Utilization of NMR and MS techniques in biocatalysis research |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Mikko Salin, University of Oulu, Finland Protein crystallographic characterisation of the A-TIM binding properties. |
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| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
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Session 5: Theoretical approaches Chairman: André Juffer |
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| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Thomas Renger, FU Berlin, UNICAT cluster, Germany Calculation of optical properties of pigments in proteins and non-polar solvents. |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Satyan Sharma, University of Oulu, Finland Eludicidation of enzyme reaction mechanism by theoretical approaches. |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Uwe Sauer, University of Umeå, Sweden OnD and FISH: Identifying intrinsically disordered intervalls and structured domains in proteins from their sequence. |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Frank Müh, UNICAT, Germany Calculation of optical spectra of plant light-harvesting complex II |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Mohamed El-Amine Madjet, UNICAT, Germany Role of electron exchange in optical spectra of molecular dimers. |
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Closing remarks Rik Wierenga |