09:30 - 10:00

• Registration and coffee

10:00 - 10:10

• Introduction Herwig Bachmann, NIZO/VU Amsterdam

10:10 - 10:40

• Marcel Wubbolts, Corbion

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  Biotechnology at Corbion; towards the circular economy

10:40 - 11:00

• Youri van Nuland, Wageningen University

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  Solving the diterminal alkane oxidation puzzle

11:00 - 11:20

• Joyce Mulder, NIZO/University Groningen

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  Unleashing natural competence in Lactococcus lactis by induction of the competence regular ComX

11:20 - 11:40

• Karel Olavarria, TUD

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  Efficient Sugar2Plastic conversion: Homo PHB fermentation in E. coli

11:40 - 12:10

• Poster pitches

12:10 - 14:00

• Lunch, poster session and networking

14:00 - 14:50

• Guest lecture: Kevin Verstrepen, Leuven University, Belgium

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  Studying the yeasts of yesterday to generate the beer yeasts of tomorrow

14:50 - 15:20

• Mike Jetten, Sebastian Luecker, Radboud University Nijmegen

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  Ecophysiology of new nitrogen cycle micro-organisms

15:20 - 15:40

• Willi Gottstein, VU Amsterdam

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  Deriving flux distributions from metabolite time-courses using genome-scale stoichiometric models

15:40 - 16:25

• Coffee break and poster session

16:25 - 16:45

• Hein Trip, Leiden University

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  Co-cultivation as an approach to wake up silent secondary metabolite gene clusters: a case study in Aspergillus niger

16:45 - 17:05

• Peter Punt, Dutch DNA

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  Dutch DNA

17:05 - 17:40

• Closing lecture, Christophe Danelon, TUD

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  Bottom-up approach to a minimal cell

17:40 - 19:00

• Drinks