Symposium | Innovative BioProduction Kobe (iBioK)｜Kobe University

13:00: Hideki Fukuda, President of Kobe University
13:05: Prof. Akihiko Kondo (Kobe Univ., Japan)
Bio-production of biobased fuels and chemicals: achievements and perspectives of iBioK
13:40: Prof. J.(Jack) N. Saddler (Univ. British Columbia, Canada)
The Transformation of the Canadian Forest Products Industry to a Biorefinery sector
14:20: Prof. Willem Heber van Zyl (Univ. Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Role of advanced lignocellulose conversion technologies in sustainable bioenergy production in southern Africa
15:00: Coffee Break
15:30: Prof. Lee R Lynd (Dartmouth College, USA)
Microbial Cellulose Utilization and Consolidated Bioprocessing
16:10: Prof. Merja Penttil(VTT, Finland)
Engineering of yeasts for production of organic acids from biomass sugars
16:50: Prof. Thomas W. Jeffries (Univ. Wisconsin, USA)
Genomics, transcriptomics and metabolic engineering in native xylose fermenting yeasts
18:00: Welcome reception and Banquet Kobe Portopia Hotel

10:00: Prof. Huimin Zhao (Univ. Illinois, USA)
Engineering Microbial Cell Factories for Production of Chemicals and Fuels
10:40: Prof. R. H. Cristoph Wittmann (Technical Univ. Braunschweig, Germany)
Systems metabolic engineering of industrial microorganisms
11:20: Prof. Pierre Monsan (INSA. Toulouse, France)
Molecular Engineering of Glucansucrases in the context of the Pre-Industrial Demonstrator "Toulouse White Biotechnology"
12:00: Dr. Charles A. Abbas (Archer Daniels Midland Company, USA)
Lost in Translation-Challenges to Scale Up at Biorefineries
12:40: Lunch
14:00: Prof. Ken-ich Yoshida (Kobe Univ., Japan)
Bio-production of biologically active substances: achievements and perspectives of iBioK
14:40: Dr. Petar Pujic (Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon1, France)
Frankia, symbiotic actinobacteria living in harmony
15:20: Prof. J Jozef Ann(Catholic Univ. Leuven, Belgium)
The twin-arginine translocation pathway in Streptomyces lividans: an alternative route for the enhanced production of heterologous proteins