About MB11 Microbial Biotechnology Symposium

MB11 Microbial Biotechnology Symposium

MB11 Microbial Biotechnology Symposium

Microbial Biotechnology Symposium MB11

The Microbial Biotechnology Symposium is organised yearly by the NBV work group Microbial Biotechnology

What: MB11
When: Monday 1 December, 2025
Where: Omnia Congress Centre, Wageningen

Program
09:30 - 10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00 - 10:15 Opening
10:15 - 10:45 Invited lecture: Jan Marienhagen – Fz Jülich / RWTH Aachen
If It Doesn’t Glow, It Doesn’t Go – Custom Biosensors Driving Microbial Metabolic Engineering
10:45 - 11:05 Panos Kopsiaftis – Corbion / Wageningen University
Investigating and enhancing the xylan-degradation capabilities of a thermophilic microbe
11:05 - 11:25 Maaike Remeijer – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Modularizing genome scale metabolic models: applications for cell factory design
11:25 - 11:45 Minke Gabriëls – Delft University of Technology
Linking structure to function in high performing electrosynthetic biofilm communities
11:45 - 12:10 Poster pitches
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch, poster session and networking
13:30 - 14:00 Invited lecture: Jeroen Hugenholtz – NoPalm Ingredients
Production of a sustainable alternative for palm oil using fermentation
14:00 - 14:20 Noor van Wijk – Wageningen University
De novo NMN overproduction in Escherichia coli as noncanonical redox cofactor
14:20 - 14:40 Jelmer Coenradij – Groningen University
Autonomous synthesis of phospholipids and recycling of nucleotides in synthetic cells
14:40 - 15:40 Coffee break and poster session
15:40 - 16:00 Laura Claret Fernández – HAN University of Applied Sciences
Towards a fungal-based colorful future: Successful upscaling and dye application of a color-producing fungus.
16:00 - 16:20 Jurian Wijnheijmer – University of Amsterdam
Machine Learning identifies novel mechanisms of action of antimicrobials
16:20 - 16:50 Invited lecture: Pascale Daran-Lapujade – Delft University of Technology
Large scale pathway and genome engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from synthetic pathways to synthetic cells
17:00 Drinks and Networking


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