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

Poster pitches II

Chair:   Stephan Lütz, TU Dortmund University

Session “Biosynthesis” (posters P32-P45)

Session “Engineering & Synthesis” (posters P46-P64)

Chair:   Helge Bode, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg

Hendrik Wolff Award

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

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