Symposium - Biotransformation by Fungal Cells or Fungal Enzymes
The Symposium
September 30th – October 2nd, 2010
at
Hochschule Lausitz (FH), Senftenberg, Germany
The symposium will be developed on basis of invited speakers from academia and industry. All participants are asked to actively take part by poster presentations. In the schedule sufficient time will be spent on poster
discussion. A limited number of submitted abstracts will be selected for oral presentations (15 min + 5 min).
Invited speaker presentations:
Cellulases for second generation biofuels
David B. Wilson, Cornell University, USA
Selective oxidation of steroids by fungal cells
Jens Pilling, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany
Penicillin production: Improvements after genome sequencing of Penicillium chrysogenum
Marco A. van den Berg, DSM-Antiinfectives, The Netherlands
*Laccases and peroxidases for degradation or production
Taina K. Lundell, University of Helsinki, Finland
*Structure-function relationships and applications of CotA-laccase
Lígia O. Martins, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Efficient gene expression in fungi
Helmut Schwab, Graz University of Technology, Austria
* Note from September 13th, 2010: Since Taina Lundell will not participate for personal reasons, the organizers are happy to announce that Lígia Martins accepted our invitation.
Accompanying Programme
All participants are invited to join two evening events. A “mixer” will be organized on September 30th in Senftenberg. On October 1st a dinner will be offered in an old castle in Sallgast. Both events are free.
We intend to offer at minimal costs two parallel excursions on October 2nd afternoon. One will show you a production plant for Shii-take fruiting bodies in Hoyerswerda. Another will give you an impression about wild life coming back to Naturparadies Grünhaus, a closed brown coal mining area given back to nature. We hope to show you cranes.