| TUESDAY, JULY 15 | |||
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| Hour | Classroom C1-009 | Classroom C1-015 | Sponsors |
| 8.45 – 9.00 | Course presentation Omics Technologies. Prof. José Luis García |
Course presentation Biotechnological processes and Applied Biocatalysis Prof. María José Hernáiz & Prof. Francisco Valero |
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| 9.00 – 11.30 | Seminars (see program) | Seminars (see program) | |
| 11.30 – 11.50 | Coffee break | ||
| 11.50 – 13.30 | Seminars (see program) | Seminars (see program) | |
| 13.30 – 14.45 | Lunch | ||
| 14.45 – 17.15 | Seminars (see program) | Seminars (see program) | |
| 17.15 – 17.30 | Course closing and diploma ceremony | ||
| 16.30 – 18.30 | Congress Registration | ||
| 18.30 – 19.00 | Congress Inauguration Biotec2025 Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences |
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| 19.00 – 20.00 | Plenary Conference. Dr. Michael Koepke, (Lanzatech) “Stepping on the gas: Innovating for A Circular Carbon Economy” Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences |
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| 20.00 – 21.30 | Welcome cocktail | ||
| WEDNESDAY, JULY 16 | |||
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| Hour | Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences | Graduation Hall of the Faculty of Life Sciences | Sponsors |
| Biocatalysis Chairman: Susana Velasco |
Food Biotechnology Chairman: Enrique Martínez and Eva García |
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| 9.00 – 9.25 | Biocatalysis for Sustainable Biosurfactants: Enzymatic Innovations in Rhamnolipid Synthesis KN1 María José Hernaiz Facultad de Farmacia UCM. Madrid |
Towards more balanced wines: Microbial control in times of climate change. KN1 Mª Jesús Torija U. Rovira i Virgili. Tarragona |
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| 9.25 – 9.50 | Immobilize to go further: from the design to the integration of immobilized biocatalysts. KN2 David Roura InSEIT AG, Switzerland |
Advantages and disadvantages of adaptive evolution in the improvement and diversification of lactic starter cultures KN2 Beatriz Martínez Fernández Instituto de productos lácteos de Asturias. Grupo Dairy Safe |
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| 9.50 – 10.05 | Chitin deacetylases for the production of sequence-defined chitosan oligosaccarides. Understanding and Engineering specificity O1 Antoni Planas Dept. Bioenginyeria. IQS. Barcelona |
9.50-10.10 Enzymatic modification of polyphenols to optimize their physicochemical and bioactive properties. KN3 José Luis González Alfonso ICP-CSIC Madrid |
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| 10.05 – 10.20 | Biocatalysis and Ionic Liquids as enabling tools for the sustainable CO2 transformation into bis(cyclic carbonate) esters O2 Rocío Villa U de Murcia. Murcia |
10.10-10.30 Applied Biotechnology: Technology Transfer in High-Value Cultures. KN4 Verónica Romero Gil Tafiqs in Foods, S.L. Marca registrada OLEICA |
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| 10.20 – 10.25 | Engineering PHA depolymerases to modulate structure–function relationships F1 Laura Isabel de Eugenio Biotecnología de Polímeros. CIB-CSIC. Madrid. |
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| 10.25 – 10.30 | A novel hybrid biocatalyst approach for plastic waste recycling and upcycling into high added value compounds F2 Maialen Iturralde CIC biomaGUNE. San Sebastián |
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| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break | ||
| Biocatalysis Chairman: Fernando López-Gallego |
Microbial Biotechnology Chairman: Victor González-Menéndez and Alvaro Mourenza |
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| 11.00 – 11.25 | From Nature to Artificial Intelligence. Designing the Biocatalysis of the future KN1 Manuel Ferrer |
mAbxience: Medicamentos de Alta Calidad, Accesibles y Asequibles para el Mundo |
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| 11.25 – 11.50 | Engineering Artificial Metalloenzymes: Protein-Metal Hybrids for Tunable Biocatalysis. KN2 Aitziber L. Cortajarena CIC biomaGUNE-BRTA. Donostia. |
OSMAC-and-Metabolomic-Engineering-Strategies-to-Improve-the-Chemical-Information-of-Stanjemonium-spectabile-and-Enhance-the-Production-of-a-Novel-Compound O1 Gioele Pecin Fundación Medina. Granada |
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| 11.50 – 12.05 | Self-sufficient biocatalyst-driven CO2 conversion: Upcycling industrial feedstocks into high-value products. O1 Sady Roberto Rodríguez DEQBA-UAB. Barcelona |
From secretome to innovation: A novel fungal hyaluronate lyase expanding the glycoenzyme toolbox. O2 Marina Minguet-Lobato CBM-CSIC. Madrid |
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| 12.05 – 12.20 | Self-Sufficient and Autosensing Biocatalytic Inks for 3D-Printed Bioreactors O2 Daniel Andrés Sanz CIC biomaGUNE-BRTA. Donostia. |
Alkaline pH-regulatable promoters for protein expression in K. phaffii: the contribution of the transcription factors Crz1 and Rim101 O3 Joaquín Ariño Dept. Bioquímica y Biología Molecular. IBB. UAB. Barcelona |
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| 12.20 – 12.25 | Co-immobilization of a multienzyme cascade in Silk Fibroin F1 Juan Cruz Almada Instituto Universitario de Investigación Mixto ISQCH – Inst. Síntesis Química y Catálisis Homogénea. Zaragoza. |
Digitizing the blue light-activated T7 RNA polymerase system with a tet-controlled riboregulatory F1 Sara Baldanta I2sysbio. CSIC. Valencia |
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| 12.25 – 12.30 | Enhanced Production, Optimization, and Immobilization of Pectinases from Penicillium crustosum on Magnetic Core-Shell Nanostructures for Efficient Juice Clarification F2 Alcione García-González U. Autónoma de Nuevo León. México. |
Toward more efficient heterologous protein expression in yeast: investigating translation control under alkaline pH stress F2 Asier González Dept. Bioquímica y Biología Molecular. IBB. UAB. Barcelona. |
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| 12.30 – 13.30 | Plenary Conference. Dra. Fátima Bosch (CBATEG-UAB) “Gene therapy to treat highly prevalent metabolic diseases: A new horizon for human health” Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences |
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| 13.30 – 14.30 | Lunch | ||
| 14.30 – 15.30 | Posters session | ||
| Hour | Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences | Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences | |
| Biotechnology and Health Chairman: Celia Nieto |
Environmental Biotechnology Chairman: Carmen Michán |
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| 15.30 – 15.55 | Nanostructured drug delivery systems for targeted antimicrobial therapy KN1 Manuel Arruebo Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón |
20 years of microbial electrochemical technologies: from lab to full scale KN1 Abraham Esteve U. Alcalá/IMDEA AGUA |
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| 15.55 – 16.20 | Challenges addressed in the development of Immunobiogram: a novel cell-technology IVD test that applies Precision Medicine paradigm to the personalization of immunosuppresant medicines KN2 Isabel Portero CEO Biohope |
Bioengineering synthetic cellular organelles to enhance sustainable biocompund production KN2 Henning Kirst Ramón y Cajal. U. Córdoba. (IMIBIC) |
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| 16.20 – 16.35 | Smart Peptide Design: AI-Powered Synthetic Biology Tools for Next-Generation Antibiotic Design O1 Marc Torrent Dept. Bioquímica y Biología Molecular. UAB. Barcelona |
Resilience and microbial adaptation of a lactate-driven dark fermentation process under operational disturbances O1 Ysis E. Lanzoni-Vargas Dept. Ing. Química y Tecnología del Medio Ambiente. U. Valladolid |
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| 16.35 – 16.50 | Lipidomic and Transcriptomic Profiling of HEK293-Derived Extracellular Vesicles and HIV-1 Gag Virus-Like Particles Reveals Functional and Safety Implications O2 Marc García-Trujillo DEQBA UAB. Barcelona |
Bioconversion of lignin waste into new chemical building blocks for the sustainable production of bio-based plastics O2 Carlos del Cerro Environmental Microbiology. CIB-CSIC. Madrid |
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| 16.50 – 16.55 | Structural and functional studies of the enzybiotic VL-1L, the lysozyme of bacteriophage vB_PaeS_VL1 of Pseudomonas aeruginosa F1 Inés Pareja Cerbán Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Madrid |
MycoBrow: Transforming waste into a biostimulant solution F1 María Camila Espinosa MAFA Bioscience. U. Granada |
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| 16.55 – 17.00 | Functionalized HIV-1 Gag VLPs for targeted delivery to CXCR4-positive cancer cells F2 Elianet Lorenzo DEQBA UAB. Barcelona |
Microbial evaluation of the health of aquatic ecosystems along the Southwest Andalusian coast F2 Marina Barbudo-Lunar Dept. Bioquímica y Biología Molecular. U. Córdoba |
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| 17.00 – 18.00 |
Round table 1: Young Biotechnologist |
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| Sponsors presentations | |||
| 18:00 – 18:10 | Condalab Viral solutions at the service of Biomedicine |
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| 18:10 – 18:20 | Kuhner Scalling up with orbitall shaking platform | ||
| 18:20 – 18:30 | Levprot Levprot Bioscience: Biotech Solutions for the Protein Revolution | ||
| THURSDAY, JULY 17 | |||
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| Hour | Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences | Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences | Sponsors |
| Industrial Biotechnology Chairman: Juan Manuel Bolivar |
Environmental Biotechnology Chairman: Beatriz Galán |
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| 9.00 – 9.25 | Enzymes as key catalysts for the sustainable synthesis of bioplastics: from biomass to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid catalyzed by HMFO KN1 Kirian Bonet-Ragel DEQBA-UAB. Barcelona |
Extracytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factors in the response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to environmental and host stimuli KN1 Marián LLamas Estación Experimental del Zaidín (EEZ-CSIC) |
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| 9.25 – 9.50 | Sustainable Biotech? Prove it, show me the metrics KN2 Pablo Domínguez de María Sustainable Momentum S.L. (SusMom) |
Microbial communities and contaminants: challenges of functional analysis. KN2 Balbina Nogales Univ. de les Illes Balears |
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| 9.50 – 10.05 | Scalable protein production by Komagataella phaffii enabled by ARS plasmids and carbon source-based selection O1 Guillermo Requena-Moreno DEQBA UAB. Barcelona |
Towards Sustainable CO₂ Conversion: Integrating Electrochemical CO2 Reduction and Microbial Fermentation to Produce 3-Hydroxypropionic Acid O1 Zainab Ul DEQBA. UAB. Barcelona. |
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| 10.05 – 10.20 | 2,3-butanediol production from non-conventional carbon sources using different microbial chassis O2 Irene Cano Sistemas microbianos e Ingeniería de proteías, CIB-CSIC. Madrid |
Proteome analysis of the Pseudomonas putida adaptation to epoxy resin substrates O2 Alvaro Mourenza Dept. Biología Molecular. U. de León |
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| 10.20 – 10.25 | Microbial valorization of hydrothermal liquefaction wastewater F1 Beatriz Pasero Ingeniería de Proteínas frente a la resistencia de antimicrobianos. CIB-CSIC. Madrid |
Unveiling A. baylyi ADP1 metabolism to enhance wax ester production F1 Susana Capel Biotecnología de Polímeros. CIB-CSIC. Madrid |
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| 10.25 – 10.30 | Chitosan modification with octenyl succinic anhydride (OSA): material characterization and applications F1 María Carpintero DEQTMA. U. Oviedo |
Solid-State Fermentation in the Green Transition: A Sustainable Platform for Waste Valorization F2 Oscar Mauricio Martínez-Avila DEQBA-UAB. Barcelona |
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| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break | ||
| Industrial Biotechnology Chairman: Xavier García-Ortega |
Plant Biotechnology Chairman: XXX |
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| 11.00 – 11.25 | Advancing bioprocess engineering for sustainable and efficient production of bacterial polymers KN1 Alberto Rodríguez-Martín CIB-Madrid |
Lighting up plant biotechnology: autobioluminescence as a tool for prototyping synthetic gene circuits and monitoring plant viral infections KN1 Marta Vázquez-Vilar IBMCP-CSIC |
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| 11.25 – 11.50 | Downstream intensification by integrating flow filtration technologies KN2 Ruth Ordoñez
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A thorny issue KN2 Pietro Gramazio Instituto de Conservación y Mejora de la Agrodiversidad Valenciana (COMAV) – (UPV) |
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| 11.50 – 12.05 | Toward enhanced exopolysaccharides production by Leuconostoc citreum CNTA 860: multifactorial screening and kinetic validation O1 Nicolás Armendáriz Dept. Investigación Tecnología alimentaria. CNTA. Navarra. |
A genetic framework of genes involved in callus growth O2 Fuensanta Verdú Bionet. Murcia |
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| 12.05 – 12.20 | Optimization of Cell-Specific Perfusion Rate in Continuous Perfusion Culture of CHO Cells Producing mAbs O1 Manuel Alonso Moreda DEQBA.UAB. Barcelona |
Development of microalgae chloroplasts as a green chassis for synthetic biology and production of valuable rhamnolipid biosurfactants O2 Marçal Gallemí IQS- URL. Barcelona |
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| 12.20 – 12.25 | A novel Pseudomonas putida chassis for the upcycling of ethylene glycol derived from PET degradation F1 Alejandor García-Miró Sistemas microbianos e Ingeniería de Proteínas. CIB-CSCI- Madrid |
Characterization of SOAR1 as a translational regulator in the chloroplast F1 Elena Rodríguez San Miguel UPM-INIA/CSIC- Madrid |
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| 12.25 – 12.30 | Resting cells of Cupriavidus necator for sugars purification and efficient production of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate F2 Ernesto González Dept. Ing. Química y Materiales. UCM. Madrid |
Expression of Arabidopsis HOP3 under the control of a stress inducible promoter enhances plant tolerance to salt stress in plants F2 Aurora Navarro UPM-INIA/CSIC- Madrid |
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| 12.30 – 13.30 | Plenary Conference. Amparo Querol (Food Biotechnology) IATA-CSIC. “Optimization of wine fermentations through innovative approaches: Yeast Biodiversity, Multi-omics analysis and model-based design of metabolic fluxes” Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences |
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| 13.30 – 14.30 | Lunch | ||
| 14.30 – 15.30 | Posters session | ||
| 15.30 – 16.30 | Round table 2: Biotechnology and Sustainability Chairman: Auxiliadora Prieto (CIB-CSIC) Participants: Xavier Gabarrell. Vicerector for Campus and sustainability (UAB) Abraham Esteve Núñez, BIOE GROUP, Universidad de Alcalá/IMDEA AGUA Marta Vazquez Vilar -Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, IBMCP (UPV – CSIC) Silvia Osuna ICREA & Universitat de Girona, Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi, Departament de Química Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences |
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| 16.30 – 17.30 | Plenary conference Young researchers Award SEBiot La metabolómica y la bioinformática como motores de la alimentación del futuro a través del establecimiento de sistemas one health. Pascual García Pérez Departamento de Tecnología de los Alimentos, Nutrición y Bromatología, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Murcia Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences |
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| 17.30 – 18.00 |
Sponsors presentations 17:30 – 17:40 Asociación Comunicadores de Biotecnología. Comunica Biotec Sala de actos Facultad de Biociencias |
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| 20.00 – 23.00 | Gala Dinner Marina Bay Marina Street 19-21. Olympic port. Barcelona |
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| FRIDAY JULY, 18 | |||
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| Hora | Graduation Hall of the Faculty of Life Sciences | Graduation Hall of the Faculty of Life Sciences | Sponsors |
| Microbial Biotechnology Chairman: Victor González-Menéndez and Alvaro Mourenza | New Challenges in Biotechnology Chairman: XXX |
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| 9.00 – 9.25 | How fungi will save us from the climate change apocalypse KN1 Pablo Cruz Morales Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability |
VIVALDI : Innovative bio-based chains for CO2 valorisation as added-value organic acids KN1 Albert Guisasola DEQBA-UAB. Barcelona |
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| 9.25 – 9.50 | Optimizing Polyhydroxyalkanoate Recovery through Bdellovibrio-Induced Cell Lysis and Predator-Prey Dynamics Integration O1 Natalia Hernández-Herreros Biotecnología de Polímeros. CIB-CSIC. Madrid. |
Next-Generation USP Development: Driving Innovation and Robustness in CHO-Based Bioprocessing KN1 Evan Gilman Leanbio |
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| 9.50 – 10.05 | Characterization of a Novel Fungal α-Glucosidase and Its Biotechnological Potential for Producing Bioactive Compounds O2 Eglè Narmontaitė CBM-CSIC. Madrid. |
9.50-10.10 Rational Design of Efficient Enzymes KN3 Silvia Osuna ICREA & Universitat de Girona, Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi, Departament de Química |
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| 10.05 – 10.20 | Exploring the diversity and metabolic potential of Preussia from xerophytic and marine habitats in the Mediterranean basin O3 Daniel Guerra-Mateo U. Rovira i Virgili. Tarragona |
10.10 – 10.30 Applications of AI in the manufacturing of biological drugs |
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| 10.20 – 10.25 | Exploring CoA-transferases for a new in vitro PHA production system F1 Santiago Roque de Miguel Biotecnología de Polímeros. CIB-CSIC. Madrid |
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| 10.25 – 10.30 | FadDI Function in the Sustainable Production of the Antimicrobial Biopolymer PHACOS F2 Marina Rodríguez Carreiro Biotecnología de Polímeros. CIB-CSIC. Madrid |
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| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Round table 3. Biotechnology and Industry Chairman: Francesc Godia (DEQBA-UAB) Participants: Participants: · Ion Arocena. General Manager Asebio Madrid · Albert Jané. CEO and Co-funder Vytrus Biotech. . Laura Alemany, Innovation Manager in Grifols · Gerard Caellas, CBO in SpliceBio Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences |
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| 12.00 – 13.00 | Plenary Conference Alfonso Valencia (BSC-CNS) “AI and Biotechnology: Challenges, Opportunities in Europe.” Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences |
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| 13.00 – 13.30 | Closing Ceremony Auditorium of the Faculty of Life Sciences |
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