13:00

Axel Brakhage
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute, Jena

Welcome

13:10

Marc Stadler
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

New bioactive secondary metabolites from cultures of Asian edible mushrooms and tropical basidiomycetes

13:55

Dirk Hoffmeister
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute, Jena

Substrate specificity signatures of fungal peptide synthetases and like enzymes

14:40

Markus Nett
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute, Jena

Biosynthetic pathways to novel antibiotics – Discovery and engineering

15:25

Coffee Break

16:00

Michael Fischbach
University of California, San Francisco, USA

Insights from a global view of secondary metabolism: Small molecules from the human microbiota

16:45

Vito Valiante
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute, Jena

Bioprospecting using synthetic biology for secondary metabolites in fungi

17:30

Uwe Horn
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute, Jena

Introduction to the HKI Bio Pilot Plant

17:55

Lisa Mahler
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute, Jena

Exploiting microbial diversity with a droplet-based ultra-high throughput screening

18:30

Visit Bio Pilot Plant

09:00

Thomas Schweder
Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald

Heterologous expression of biosynthetic gene clusters in Bacillus subtilis

09:45

Wolfgang Wiechert
Forschungszentrum Jülich

What Bioengineers can do for Biology: Bioreactors in the “omics” age

10:30

Eckhard Thines
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

Fungal secondary metabolites from plant pathogenic fungi and their impact on plant/ pathogen-interactions

11:15

Coffee Break

11:45

Peter Neubauer
Technische Universität Berlin

Combined cell and bioprocess engineering strategies for reconstitution of valinomycin production in Escherichia coli

12:30

Christian Hertweck
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute, Jena

Decoding and harnessing complex microbial assembly lines