Program

 

                 Tuesday, September 27, 2022                

Pre-conference dinner at the „Wirtshaus Garbe“ (http://www.wirtshausgarbe.de/) next to the Hohenheim campus (self-payer) starting from 6 p.m.


                 Wednesday, September 28, 2022                

09:00-10:00        Coffee & Registration

10:00-10:15        Welcome address (Rudolf Hausmann)

10:15-11:00        KEYNOTE: Ibrahim Banat - A Journey into Biosurfactants Research and Development for Over Three Decades

------- Session 1: Rhamnolipid biosurfactants -------

11:00-11:20        Gloria Soberón-Chávez - Use of Pseudomonas chlororaphis for the heterologous production of rhamnolipids

11:20-11:40        Sonja Kubicki - Burkholderia species naturally producing O-methylated rhamnolipids

11:40-12:00        Denise Maria Guimarães Freire - Rhamnolipid scale-up production from corn ethanol industry by-product and preliminary economic analysis

12:00-12:20        Till Tiso - Combined strain and process engineering to overcome challenges in foaming rhamnolipid production fermentations

LUNCHBREAK 12:30-13:30

13:30-14:15        KEYNOTE: Monica Höfte - Perspectives of Lipopeptides Producing Bacteria as Biocontrol Agents in Agriculture

------- Session 2: Lipopeptide biosurfactants -------

14:30-14:50        Alexis C. R. Hoste - Study of the impact of bacterially produced lipopeptides on SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) in vitro

14:50-15:10        Noomen Hmidet - Lipopeptides of B. methylotrophicus DSC1: Production, stuctural analysis and biotechnological applications

15:10-15:30        François Coutte - Spray-drying performances of the three families of lipopeptides biosurfactant produced by Bacillus subtilis

15:30-15:50        Chantal Treinen - Exploring new strategies for efficient and robust surfactin production in Bacillus bioprocesses

COFFEE BREAK 16:00-16:30

------- Session 3: Glycolipid biosurfactants -------

16:30-16:50        Lars Blank - Plastics as carbon source for microbial biosurfactants

16:50-17:10        Amira Oraby - Optimization potentials for the fermentation of cellobiose lipids derived from life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis

17:10-17:30        Lars Bippus - Life Cycle Assessment for process optimization of Mannosylerythritol lipids (MEL) production

17:30-17:50        Niki Baccile - Biosurfactants or bioamphiphiles? Thoughts and opportunities concerning microbial glycolipids

POSTER PARTY with German beer, sausage and pretzels 18:00-22:00

 

                 Thursday, September 29, 2022                

8:00-9:00             Coffee & Registration

9:00-9:45             KEYNOTE: Sanket J. Joshi - Biosurfactants applications in enhanced oil recovery (EOR)

9:45-10:30           KEYNOTE: Leonie Asfora Sarubbo - Biosurfactants as a sustainable technology for the control of oil spills

COFFEE BREAK 10:30-11:00

------- Session 4: Biosurfactant applications -------

11:00-11:20        Izak Schlebusch - Extraction of hazardous heavy metals from South African mine wastewater by biosurfactant precipitation

11:20-11:40        Baiyu Zhang - Development of a lipopeptide-based dispersant for marine oil spill response

11:40-12:00        Niki Baccile - Hydrogelling properties of microbial glycolipids

12:00-12:20        Matthew Twigg - Glycolipid biosurfactants as novel anti-cancer agents

LUNCHBREAK 12:30-13:30

13:30-14:15        KEYNOTE: Christoph Syldatk - Enzyme-catalyzed synthesis of glycolipid biosurfactants

------- Session 5: Enzymatic synthesis and natural surfactants -------

14:30-14:50        Daniela Tsekova - L-Asp based monomeric and gemini surfactants - surface activity and biological study

14:50-15:10        Grzegorz Pasternak - Biosynthesis of surfactants in bioelectrochemical systems

15:10-15:30        Rossana Pitocchi - Biosurfactant proteins form fungi grown in hostile environments

15:30-15:50        Diego Romano Perinelli - Surface and emulsifying properties of soyasaponin-based surfactants from legumes

COFFEE BREAK 16:00-16:30

------- Session 6: Downstream processing of biosurfactants -------

16:30-16:50        Xanel Vecino - Screening of anionic resins for the formulation of heterogeneous membranes for the removal of lactic and concentration of biosurfactants from corn steep waters

16:50-17:10        Fredy Wsbaldo Baron Nunez - Analysis of downstream process strategies for the production Mannosylerythritol lipids (MEL)

17:10-17:30        Kirsten Van Niekerk - Aqueous Two-phase separation for lipopeptide purification

17:30-17:50        Sigrid Görgen - Adapted cell factories for production of biosurfactant on cheap substrates

CONFERENCE DINNER 19:00

 

                 Friday, September 30, 2022                

8:00-9:00             Coffee & Registration

9:00-9:45             KEYNOTE: Wim Soetaert - Bridging the Gap from Biosurfactants Research to Commercialization

9:45-10:30           KEYNOTE: Tomotake Morita - Tailor-made mannoylerythritol lipids

COFFEE BREAK 10:30-11:00

------- Session 7: Industrial perspectives -------

11:00-11:20        Alexandra Trambitas & Jochen Kleinen - Rhamnolipids is revolutionating the laundry detergent market

11:20-11:40        Marcin Lukaszewicz - The beauty of lipopeptides: from theory to practice

SHORT BREAK 10:40-11:50

11:50-12:10        Ben Dolman - Overcoming technoeconomic challenges to build first ktonne scale sophorolipid plant and begin mass market biosurfactant application

12:10-12:30        Teresa Gea - Challenges in the scaling and commercialization of sophorolipids by solid state fermentation

12:30-12:50        Sofie Lodens & Sophie Roelants  - The Waste2Func project: Valorisation of food waste into microbial biosurfactants

12:50-13:00        Closing remarks and end of the Conference (Rudolf Hausmann)