Speakers

Preliminary List of Speakers

PLENARY SPEAKERS

JEF D. BOEKE

New York University, NY, USA

JUDITH E. BERMAN

Tel Aviv University, IL

MARKUS RALSER

Francis Crick Institute, London, UK,

Charité, Berlin, DE

HIROSHI TAKAGI

Nara Institute of Science and Technology, JP

CHRISTINA D. SMOLKE

Stanford University, CA, USA

JORIS WINDERICKX

KU Leuven, BE

invited speakers

Metabolism, metabolic engineering, systems biology

Matthias Heinemann	University Groningen, NL
Adam P. Rosebrock	Stony Brook University, US
Francesc Posas	IRB Barcelona, ES
Sandra Paiva	Univ. Minho, PT
Edda Klipp	Humboldt University Berlin, DE
Chris Hittinger	University Wisconsin-Madison, US
Jin Hou	Shandong University, CN
Irina Borodina	Technical Univ. of Denkmark, DK

Protein synthesis and folding, secretion; recombinant protein production

Kristin Koutmou	University Michigan, US
Hisao Moriya	Okayama Univ., JP
Yukio Kimata	NAIST, Nara, JP
Jeffrey Gerst	Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot, IL
Jens Nielsen	Chalmers University, Gothenburg, SE
Emile van Zyl	Stellenbosch University, ZA

Synthetic biology and genome editing

Sakkie Pretorius	Macquarie University, Sydney, AU
Pascale Daran Lapujade	TU Delft, NL
Tom Ellis	Imperial College London, UK
John Morrissey	University College Cork, IE
Akihiko Kondo	University Kobe, JP
Hyun Ah Kang	Chung-Ang University, Seoul, KR

Fermentation, food and beverages

Rosane Freitas Schwan	University Federale Lavras, BR
Lene Jespersen	Kopenhagen University, DK
Florian Bauer	University Stellenbosch, ZA
Jean-Marc Daran	TU Delft, NL
Kirsten Benjamin	Amyris, US
Jens Schrader	Dechema Research Inst., Frankfurt/M, DE

Evolution, ecology and taxonomy

Ed Louis	University Leicester, UK
Paula Goncalves	CREM, University Nova de Lisboa, PT
Vladimir Jiranek	University Adelaide, AU
Daniela Delneri	University Manchester, UK
Gianni Liti	IRCAN, University Cȏte d‘Azur, FR

Growth and stress response, cell cycle, mating and sporulation

Adrianna Skoneczna	Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
Félix Machín	HUNCS, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES
Kenneth H Wolfe	University College Dublin, IE
Alain Nicolas	Institut Curie, FR
Lisbeth Olsson	Chalmers University, Gothenburg, SE
Mark P Ashe	University of Manchester, UK

Pathogenesis and health

James Konopka	Stony Brook University, US
Clarissa Nobile	University of California Merced, US
Ee Sin Chen	National University, Singapore, SG
Patrick Lajoie	Western University, CA
Fedor Severin	Moscow State University, RU
Isabelle Sagot	CNRS, FR