4. WORKSHOP 4

 “SPRING WATERS AS A SOURCE OF NEW ENZYMES FOR THE INDUSTRY

- Date: November 26-27 2015

- Location: Ourense, Spain

- Program:

26th November 2015 (3rd Floor, CEI building)
(9:00 – 9:15h) INAUGURATION
• D. Virxilio Rodríguez Vázquez. Vice-Chancellor Ourense Campus. UVIGO. Spain
• D. Javier Soto. Managing Director at Caldaria
• Dr. José Berenguer. Coord. Project HotDrops. CBMSO-UAM. Madrid. Spain
• D. Ramiro Martinez. Novozymes - Spain

(9:15 – 9:55h) ENZYME SELECTION
• Dra. María Isabel González Siso (UDC, Spain) “Metagenomics of thermal springs: biotechnological potential"
• Dra. Liisa van Vliet (University of Cambridge, UK) “High-throughput biology in microfluidic droplets”

(9:55 – 10:15h) INDUSTRIAL BIOCATALYSIS
• Dr. Jaume Mir (Biochemize SL, Barcelona, Spain) “Back to the beginning (with some differences): the use of enzymes and microorganisms in chemistry”

(10:15 – 10:55h) BASICS
• Dr. Juan Hermoso (Instituto Química-Física "Rocasolano", CSIC, Madrid, Spain) “Protein structure, key to Biotechnology and Biomedicine”

(10:55 – 11:00h) CLOSING
• Dr. Jacobo Cruces (Galchimia SL, O Pino, A Coruña, Spain)
27th November 2015 (Auditorium, CEI building)

PANEL ON THE “AGROBIOTECH INNOVATION MEETING”
(10:00-11:00) Subject: Enzymes and Bioprocesses
Moderator: Dr. José Berenguer de Carlos. CBMSO-UAM. Madrid. Spain

Inscription: http://www.tecnopole.es/gl/encontro-agrobiotech-innovacion

2.  WORKSHOP 2 & 3

“MICROFLUIDICS FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS / INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR SCIENTISTS”

- Date: 23-25 March 2015

- Location: Cambridge

- Program:

Monday 23 March:

Morning: Introduction to Microfluidics

Afternoon: Making chips

Tuesday 24 March:

Morning: Visit to Dolomite (to be confirmed)

Afternoon: Business Workshop

Wednesday 25 March:

Morning: Making droplets

Afternoon: Making droplets and doing an exercise

1. WORKSHOP 1

"Genetic manipulation of thermophiles"

Led by Proffessors José Berenguer and Aurelio Hidalgo.

- Date:

From May 19th to 23rd

- Location:

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Biology Building (Faculty of Science)

Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid

- Program:

Lectures

Thermophiles, phylogeny and adaptations

Bacterial thermophiles as models

Archaeal thermophiles as models

Selection of thermostable variants within thermophiles

Engineering thermostable variants from conventional enzymes

Construction of metagenomic libraries

Lab experiments

Growth of thermophiles under lab conditions (P1)

Transformation in thermophiles (P2)

Isolation of mutants in Thermus thermophilus (P3)

Conjugational transfer of gene markers within Thermus thermophilus (P4)

Overproduction of thermozymes in E. coli (P5)

Selection of thermostable variants by folding interference (P6)

Maximum number: 24 persons

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