Tuesday, 09.09.2025

18:00    Pre-conference dinner (self-paid)
Location: LivingRoom Aachen, Büchel 22, 52062 Aachen

Wednesday, 10.09.2025

09:00 - 10:00  Coffee & registration

Super-C building, Generali and Ford hall, 6th floor

10:00 - 10:15  Welcome address

HKW building, lecture hall HKW2, 3rd floor

Lars M. Blank, RWTH Aachen, Germany

10:15 - 11:00  KEYNOTE 1: Ibrahim M. Banat - GLYCOLIPIDS – THE SILVER BULLET?

Session 1: New strains – new molecules

Chair: Lars M. Blank

11:00 - 11:20  Marla Trindade - Diversifying aminolipid production through genetic engineering to deliver biotechnological solutions

11:20 - 11:40  Björn Sandrock - Two gene clusters are required for mannosylerythritol lipid biosynthesis in Sporisorium reilianum

11:40 - 12:00  Jiaxin Cui - Biosynthesis, function and biotechnological application of the glycine-glucolipid in the marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis

12:00 - 12:20  Carmine Buonocore - Unlocking the production of new rhamnolipids mixtures through pathway engineering and heterologous expression in Pseudomonas putida

12:30 - 13:30  Lunch break (Super-C)

13:30 - 14:15  KEYNOTE 2: Susanne Zibek - Why do mannosylerythritol lipids (MEL) and cellobiose lipids (CL) make us curious?

Session 2: Strain Engineering

Chair: Eric Deziel

14:20 - 14:40  Rebecca Jacqueline Hollenbach - Innovative process strategies for competitive enzymatic glycolipid synthesis

14:40 - 15:00  Marie Dielentheis-Frenken - Engineering the polyextremotolerant fungus Aureobasidium pullulans for high-titer polyol lipid production

15:00 - 15:20  Min Jiang - Integrated high-throughput screening and nitric oxide-driven regulation enhance rhamnolipid production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

15:20 - 15:40  Loïc Mues - Effect of regulator knock-out such as CodY on surfactin production is strongly dependent of oxygen transfer rate

16:00 - 16:40  Coffee break (Super-C)

16:10 – 16:30  “Meet the company” – Evonik (Super-C)

Session 3: Process Development

Chair: Till Tiso

16:40 - 17:00  Nuno Faria - Development of a scalable Platform for mannosylerythritol lipid production from renewable resources

17:00 - 17:20  Carina Michel - Continuous fermentation design for the production of biosurfactants from sustainable carbon sources

17:20 - 17:40  Jose Bueno-Mancebo - Expanding the potential of thermophilic microorganisms for sustainable biosurfactant production in solid-state fermentation

17:40 - 18:00  Elvio Henrique Benatto Perino - Fed-batch bioreactor cultivation of Bacillus subtilis using vegetable juice as an alternative carbon source for lipopeptides production: A shift towards a circular bioeconomy

18:00 - 22:00  Poster party with finger food and drinks (Super-C)

Thursday, 11.09.2025          

08:00 - 09:00  Coffee & networking (Super-C)

09:00 - 09:45  KEYNOTE 3: Rudolf Hausmann - Current progress for biomanufacturing surfactin, rhamnolipid and a novel glycolipid biosurfactant

09:45 - 10:30  KEYNOTE 4: Inge van Bogaert - The strength of omics analysis: from transport mechanisms in S. bombicola to cellobiose biosynthetic pathways

10:30 - 11:10  Coffee break (Super-C)

10:40 – 11:00  “Meet the company” - Stepan (Super-C)

Session 4: Downstream processing and analytics

Chair: Rudolf Hausmann

11:10 - 11:30  Philipp Otzen - Structure elucidation of polyol lipids using HPLC-HRMS and MS/MS molecular networking

11:30 - 11:50  Xanel Vecino - Dialysis-based recovery of biosurfactants from corn steep water: from lab to pilot scale

11:50 - 12:10  James Winterburn - What’ve we got here? Sophorolipid Identification and quantification

12:10 - 12:30  Robbie Pott - Recovery of mannosylerythritol lipids using alcohol/salt aqueous two-phase extraction

12:30 - 13:30  Lunch break (Super-C)

13:30 - 14:15  KEYNOTE 5: Catherine Mulligan - Environmental Applications of Biosurfactants

Session 5: Applications

Chair: Marla Trindade

14:20 - 14:40  Leonie Asfora Sarubbo - Industrial applications for biosurfactants

14:40 - 15:00  Laura Beatriz Romero de Zeron - Separation and characterization of biosurfactant from vermicompost tea

15:00 - 15:20  Thuy-Linh Phi - Opportunities of biosurfactants in the field of nanocellulose science

15:20 – 15:40 Matthew Twigg - Two birds, one stone: the antimicrobial enhancing and microbiome protective bioactivities of glycolipid-type biosurfactants.

16:00 - 16:30  Coffee break

17:00 - 18:30  City tour

18:00 - 19:00  Pre-dinner networking

19:00 - 23:00  Conference dinner

                        Location: Forum M Aachen
                       Matthiashofstraße 28-30, 52064 Aachen

Friday, 12.09.2025

08:00 - 09:00  Coffee & networking (Super-C)

09:00 - 09:45  KEYNOTE 6: Márcia Nitschke - Biosurfactants in food chain: opportunities and challenges.

Session 6: Industrial perspectives

Chair: Sophie Roelants

09:50 - 10:20  Niki Baccile & Jochen Kleinen - On the importance of colloid science to develop biosurfactants-based products

10:20 - 10:40  Ben Michael Dolman - Achieving cost performance improvement using biosurfactants through engineering application science and collaboration

10:40 – 11:00 Peter Schmiedel – Unexpected self-assembly of the biosurfactant mannosylerithritol lipid and conventional anionic surfactant

11:00 – 11:40  Coffee break (Super-C)

11:10 – 11:30  “Meet the company” – Procter & Gamble (Super-C)

11:40 – 12:00 Ulrich Schwaneberg - Lessons learned on protein engineering for laundry formulations

12:00 - 12:45  KEYNOTE 7 (BioSC Lecture): Wim Soetaert - The rocky path from research to commercialization of biosurfactants.

12:45 - 13:00  Closing remarks