Highlights
15th International Congress on Catalysis 2012
Munich/Germany
01.07.2012
- 06.07.2012
30. DECHEMA-Jahrestagung der Biotechnologen und ProcessNet-Jahrestagung 2012
Kongresszentrum, Karlsruhe
10.09.2012
- 13.09.2012
Programme
(subject to change, as of 5 February 2008)
Sunday, 25 May 2008
18:00 Get-together Dinner
20:00
Evening Lecture
Chair: F.-O. Lehmann, University of Ulm/D
Natural engineering of biological systems
M. Feder, The University of Chicago, IL/USA
Monday, 26 May 2008
8:00 Breakfast
Molecular machines and networks
Chair: C. Freund, Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin/D
9:00 Welcome address
9:10 Domain-based evolution of signaling networks
T. Pawson, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, ON/CDN
9:40 Functional modules in signal transduction from a bottom-up perspective
K.-P. Hofmann, Charité, Berlin/D
10:10 Simulating proton transfer using a new model of amphiprotic water
J. Herzfeld, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA/USA
10:40 Coffe Break
Technologies for integrative biology: The “omics” era
Chair: M. Oldiges, Research Centre Jülich GmbH/D
11:10 Quantitative proteomics and phosphoproteomics for systems biology
M. Mann, MPI für Biochemie, Martinsried/D
11:40 Proteomics-based strategies in drug discovery
M. Bantscheff, C. Hopf, U. Kruse,
G. Drewes
, Cellzome AG, Heidelberg/D
12:10 Metabolomics - analysis of the third level of information processing
L. Willmitzer, MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm/D
12:40 Lunch
Modelling of biological systems
Chairs: E. Nevoigt, K.U. Leuven/B and A. Spiess, RWTH Aachen/D
14:30 Communicating models and data by network visualization: at the interface between theory and practice
W. Wiechert, University of Siegen/D
15:00
Modelling of microbial metabolic networks
J. Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby/DK
15:30 Computational enzyme design: structure, dynamics, and solvent effects
J. Pleiss, University of Stuttgart/D
16:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session
16:30
Modern tools in protein engineering to design biocatalysts
U.T. Bornscheuer, University of Greifswald/D
17:00 Metabolic health and disease in humans: a matter of multi-scale connectivity
M. Flück, Manchester Metropolitan University, Alsager/UK
17:30 Dissecting dynamic regulatory networks in T cells
T. Höfer, DKFZ, Heidelberg/D
18:00 Dinner
20:00 Chamber Concert with the Munich Piano Trio
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
8:00 Breakfast
Engineering of (new) biological systems: synthetic biology
Chairs: W. Weber, ETH Zurich/CH and V. Urlacher, University of Stuttgart/D
9:00 Engineering of synthetic mammalian gene networks
M. Fussenegger, ETH Zurich/CH
9:30 Design and synthesis of novel photosynthetic organisms
J. Liphardt, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, CA/USA
10:00 Evolution and synthesis of new cellular function: engineering translation
J.W. Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge/UK
10:30 Coffee Break and Poster Session
11:00 Synthetic biomaterials as instructive extracellular microenvironments for morphogenesis in tissue engineering
M.P. Lütolf, EPF, Lausanne/CH
11:30 Designed genetic circuits in the test tube and in the environment
V. de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid/E
12:00 Programming bacteria
C.A. Voigt, University of California, San Francisco, CA/USA
12:30 Lunch (those, who don’t attend the guided tour, will have lunch at the Akademie)
13:00 Guided tour to Bernried (with packed lunch. Registration necessary, see Social Programme)
18:00 Dinner
20:00
Evening Lecture
Chair: C. Freund, Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin/D
Engineering and evolving new proteins
A. Plückthun, University of Zurich/CH
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
8:00 Breakfast
Brain networks - Linking neurobiology with behaviour
Chair: F.-O. Lehmann, University of Ulm/D
9:00 Waves of activity linked to asymmetric axon collaterals in the cerebellar Purkinje cell network
H. Cuntz, University College London/UK
9:30 How everyday stressors alter neural circuitry and thus modulate memory formation
K. Lukowiak, University of Calgary, AB/CDN
10:00 The Blue Brain Project: simulation-based research in neuroscience
F. Schürmann, EPF, Lausanne/CH
10:30 Long lasting effects of desynchronizing deep brain stimulation
P. Tass, Research Centre Jülich GmbH/D
11:00 Coffee Break
Knowledge creation and transfer
Chair: V. Meyer, TU Berlin/D
11:30 Conditions of knowledge creation and transmission
J. Brüning, Humboldt-University of Berlin/D
12:00
Keynote Lecture
Knowledge transfer in a science-based society: challenges and opportunities
G. Stock, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities/D
13:00 Closing Remarks
13:15 Lunch
14:30 End of the Symposion