Wednesday 16 July: Biocatalysis
9:00 – 9:25
Biocatalysis for Sustainable Biosurfactants: Enzymatic Innovations in Rhamnolipid Synthesis
María José Hernaiz
Facultad de Farmacia UCM. Madrid
9:25 – 9:50
Immobilize to go further: from the design to the integration of immobilized biocatalysts.
David Roura
InSEIT AG, Switzerland
11:00 – 11:25
From Nature to Artificial Intelligence. Designing the Biocatalysis of the future
Manuel Ferrer
ICP-CSIC Madrid
11:25 – 11:50
Engineering Artificial Metalloenzymes: Protein-Metal Hybrids for Tunable Biocatalysis
Aitsiber L. Cortajarena
CIC biomaGUNE-BRTA. Donostia.
Wednesday 16 July: Food Biotechnology
9:00 – 9:25
Towards more balanced wines: Microbial control in times of climate change.
Mª Jesús Torija
U. Rovira i Virgili. Tarragona
9:25 – 9:50
Advantages and disadvantages of adaptive evolution in the improvement and diversification of lactic starter cultures
Beatriz Martínez Fernández
Instituto de productos lácteos de Asturias. Grupo Dairy Safe
11:00 – 11:25
Enzymatic modification of polyphenols to optimize their physicochemical and bioactive properties.
José Luis González Alfonso
ICP-CSIC Madrid
11:25 – 11:50
Applied Biotechnology: Technology Transfer in High-Value Cultures.
Verónica Romero Gil
Tafiqs in Foods, S.L. Marca registrada OLEICA
Wednesday 16 July: Biotechnology and Health
15:30 – 15:55
Nanostructured drug delivery systems for targeted antimicrobial therapy
Manuel Arruebo
Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragó
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
Isabel Portero
CEO Biohope
Wednesday 16 July: Environmental Biotechnology
15:30 – 15:55
20 years of microbial electrochemical technologies: from lab to full scale
Abraham Esteve
U: Alcalá/IMDEA AGUA
15:55 – 16:20
Bioengineering synthetic cellular organelles to enhance sustainable biocompund production
Henning Kirst
Ramón y Cajal. U. Córdoba. (IMIBIC)
Thursday 17 July: Industrial Biotechnology
9:00 – 9:25
Enzymes as key catalysts for the sustainable synthesis of bioplastics: from biomass to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid catalyzed by HMFO
Kirian-Bonet-Ragel
DEQBA-UAB. Barcelona
9:25 – 9:50
Sustainable Biotech? Prove it, show me the metrics
Pablo Domínguez de María
Sustainable Momentum S.L. (SusMom)
11:00 – 11:25
Advancing bioprocess engineering for sustainable and efficient production of bacterial polymers
Alberto Rodríguez-Martín
CIB-Madrid
11:25 – 11:50
From Discovery to Market: Strategies to Accelerate Biologics Development
Iván Martínez Monge
R&D Manager HIPRA Biotec services. Girona
Thursday 17 July: Environmental Biotechnology
9:00 – 9:25
Extracytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factors in the response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to environmental and host stimuli
Marián LLamas
Estación Experimental del Zaidín (EEZ-CSIC
Thursday 17 July: Plant Biotechnology
11:00 – 11:25
Lighting up plant biotechnology: autobioluminescence as a tool for prototyping synthetic gene circuits and monitoring plant viral infections
Marta Vazquez-Vilar
BMCP-CISC
11:25 – 11:50
A thorny issue
Pietro Gramazio
Instituto de Conservación y Mejora de la Agrodiversidad Valenciana (COMAV) – Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Friday 18 July: Microbial Biotechnology
09:00 – 09:25
How fungi will save us from the climate change apocalypse
Pablo Cruz Morales
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability
9:25 – 9:50
Title to be confirmed
Antonio Fernández
Chief Executive officer of Biomar
Friday 18 July: New challenges in Biotechnology
09:00 – 09:25
Next-Generation USP Development: Driving Innovation and Robustness in CHO-Based Bioprocessing
Evan Gilman
Leanbio
09:25 – 09:50
Rational design of efficient enzymes
Silvia Osuna
ICREA & Universitat de Girona, Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi, Departament de Química
10:10 – 10:30
Applications of AI in the manufacturing of biological drugs
Jordi Gibert
Head of Biotechnology Unit, Klinea Biopharmaceutical Engineering