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15:00 – 16:00 | Registration (Foyer of Emil-Figge 50) |
16:00 – 16:20 | Opening remarks & Welcome addresses |
16:20 – 17:20 | PL1 - Alessandra Eustaquio, University of Illinois at Chicago Reverse genetics and heterologous expression for natural product discovery |
17:20 – 18:30 | Poster pitches I Chair: Markus Nett, TU Dortmund University Session “Discovery” (posters P1-P22) Session “Evolution, Regulation & Function” (posters P23-P31) |
18:30 – 20:00 | Poster presentation I on site with finger food and drinks as well as online with interactive user interface (Gather Town) |
Lecture Session “Discovery” Chair: Hajo Kries, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena | |
09:00 – 09:15 | SL1 – Therese Horch Alternative benzoxazole assembly discovered in anaerobic bacteria provides access to privileged heterocyclic scaffold |
09:15 – 09:30 | SL2 – Sophie Jünger Discovery and biosynthesis of methanobactin-like peptides in non-methanotrophic bacteria |
09:30 – 09:45 | SL3 – Pakjira Nanudorn Atropopeptides are a novel family of ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides with a complex molecular shape |
09:45 – 10:00 | SL4 – Sebastian Walesch Revisiting Angiolams, a class of neglected antibiotics from myxobacteria |
10:00 – 10:15 | SL5 – Elena Seibel Amycolatopsis spp. – a neglected source for novel natural products and biosynthetic pathways |
10:15 – 11:00 | Coffee break on site and virtual (Gather Town) |
11:00 – 12:00 | PL2 - Emily Patricia Balskus, Harvard University Chemical discovery in the microbial world |
12:00 – 12:30 | VAAM Business Meeting |
12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
Lecture Session “Biosynthesis” Chair: Eric Helfrich, Goethe University Frankfurt | |
14:00 – 14:15 | SL6 - Sophie Klöppel Structural and biochemical insights into the transesterifying thioesterase domain from FR900359 biosynthesis |
14:15 – 14:30 | SL 7 - Mahmudul Hasan Evolutionary insights into the biosynthesis of coenzyme 3PG-F420 |
14:30 – 14:45 | SL8 - Nancy Magnus Identification of non-canonical terpene biosynthetic routes in bacteria |
14:45 – 15:00 | SL9 - Lena Barra NAD as a building block in natural product biosynthesis |
15:00 – 15:15 | SL10 - Silja Mordhorst Structural and biochemical characterisation of the peptide arginase OspR from landornamide biosynthesis |
15:15 – 15:45 | Coffee break on site and virtual (Gather Town) |
15:45 – 16:45 | PL3 –Gregory Challis, University of Warwick Gladiolin biosynthesis as a model for understanding complex metabolite assembly by trans-AT polyketide synthases |
16:45 – 18:00 | Poster pitches II Chair: Stephan Lütz, TU Dortmund University Session “Biosynthesis” (posters P32-P45) Session “Engineering & Synthesis” (posters P46-P64) |
18:00 – 19:30 | Poster presentation II on site as well as online with interactive user interface (Gather Town) |
19:30 | Dinner and Get together |
Chair: Helge Bode, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg Hendrik Wolff Award | |
08:30 – 09:00 | Award lecture |
Lecture Session “Engineering & Synthesis” Chair: Till Schäberle, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen | |
09:00 – 09:15 | SL11 – Irina Voitsekhovskaia Generation of novel glycopeptide antibiotics using mutasynthesis approach |
09:15 – 09:30 | SL12 – Huiyun Peng Programming nonribosomal peptide synthetases with DNA templates |
09:30 – 09:45 | SL13 – Kilan Schäfer Biochemical and metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the production of cannabinoid precursors |
09:45 – 10:00 | SL14 – Fabrizio Alberti Pleuromutilin biosynthesis and production of its congeners through heterologous gene expression in fungi |
10:00 – 10:15 | SL15 – Svetlana Kalinina Novel microscale semi-synthetic approach toward biologically active isoindolinones from S. chartarum |
10:15 – 11:00 | Coffee break on site and virtual (Gather Town) |
Lecture Session “Evolution, Regulation & Function” Chair: Yvonne Mast, Leibniz Institute DSMZ, Braunschweig | |
11:00 – 11:15 | SL16 – Wiebke Hanke Effects of the Gq inhibitor FR900359 on soil nematodes |
11:15 – 11:30 | SL17 – Athina Gavriilidou Sugar and spice: reclassifying glycopeptides and related antibiotics |
11:30 – 11:45 | SL18 – Judith Boldt Transcription of BGCs and production of natural compounds in the myxobacterium Sorangium sp. |
11:45 – 12:00 | SL19 – Maria Stroe On the role of natural products as virulence factors in fungi with a predatory lifestyle |
12:00 – 12:15 | SL20 – Sergii Krysenko Polyamine and ethanolamine utilization in Streptomyces coelicolor |
12:15 – 12:30 | Poster awards and Closing remarks |