Monday, November 17

09:00-09:10 Opening Remarks
Hideaki Yamada

09:10-09:25 Production, purification and properties of microbial aldehyde oxidase
Takayuki Uwajima (Fukui University)

09:25-09:40 Closing and functional expression of a tryptophan 5-and a tryptophan 6-halogenases gene from two streptomyces strains
Karl-Heinz Van Pee (Technical University of Dresden)

09:40-09:55 Formaldehyde-fixing enzymes from Bacteria and Archaea
Nobuo Kato (Kyoto University)

09:55-10:10 Random mutagenesis of transcriptional regulator TyrR for high-level expression of tyrosine phenol-lyase in Erwinia herbicola
Hidehiko Kumagai (Kyoto University)

10:10-10:25 Genomics of a thermophilic and symbiotic bacterium Symbiobacterium thermophilum, a possible resource of novel enzymes
Teruhiko Beppu (Nihon University)

10:25-10:40 Structure of cytochrome P450nor in complex with an NADH analogue
Hirofumi Shoun (University of Tokyo)

10:40-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:15 Exploring the potential of P450 monooxygenases for biocatalysis
Rolf Schmid (University of Stuttgart)

11:15-11:30 Several strategies – One target: Enantioselective biocatalysis
Uwe Bornscheuer (Greifswald University)

11:30-11:45 Generation of lipases with different specificities and functionalities in baking
Miyoko Hashida (Novozymes Japan Ltd.)

11:45-12:00 Directed evolution of Subtilisin
Karl-Heinz Maurer (Henkel KgaA)

12:00-12:15 Enzymatic retrosynthesis of 2’-deoxyribonucleoside
Sakayu Shimizu (Kyoto University)

12:15- Lunch

14:00-14:15 Biocatalytic production of chiral diols
Christian Wandrey (FZ Juelich GmbH)

14:15-14:30 Application of (-haloketone-resistant formate dehydrogenase to the enzymatic reduction system
Hirokazu Nanba (Kaneka Co.)

14:30-14:45 Enzymatic preparation of chiral intermediates
Michael Breuer (BASF AG)

14:45-15:00 Characteriozation and application of newly found hydantoin racemase
Shunichi Suzuki (Ajinomoto Co., Inc.)

15:00-15:15 Degussa's hydantoinase technology: Screening, evolution and rapid scale-up
Oliver May (Degussa AG)

15:15-15:35 Coffee Break

15:35-15:50 Enzymatic gas-phase reactions for the production of chiral compounds
Jochen Buechs (RWTH Aachen University)

15:50-16:05 Development of fermentative production of pyruvate by metabolic control
Reiko Miyata (Toray Industries Inc.)

16:05-16:20 Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli cells to improve production of L-phenylalanine and other chorismate derivatives
Georg Sprenger (University of Stuttgart)

16:20-16:35 Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli: Construction of an efficient biocatalyst for D-mannitol formation in a whole-cell biotransformation
Hermann Sahm (FZ Juelich GmbH)

16:35-16:50 Genome breeding in Corynebacterium glutamicum
Masato Ikeda (Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.)

16:50-17:05 Network anaysis for reshaping flux distribution - applied systems biology for the purpose of metabolic design
Matthias Reuss (University of Stuttgart)

17:05-17:20 New electrochemical DNA sensor based on nanoaggregation induced by DNA-intercalator complex
Eiichi Tamiya (Hokuriku Institute of Advanced Technology)

18:30-20:30 Banquet

Tuesday, November 18

09:00-9:15 Characteristics of cold-active and thermostable alcohol dehydrogenase of a pychrophilic isolate from Antarctic seawater
Kenji Soda (Kansai University)

09:15-9:30 Analysis of organic solvent tolerance in Escherichia coli using gene expression profiles from DNA microarrays
Takeshi Kobayashi (Nagoya University)

09:30-9:45 Molecular display of a functional catalytic antibody on the yeast cell surface and its development
Mitsuyoshi Ueda (Kyoto University)

09:45-10:00 DualChipTM human aging -a low-density DNA microarray that efficiently targets stress- and aging-related genes
Monika Scheidel (Eppendorf AG)

10:00-10:15 Diagnostic DNA microarrays for rapid identification of microbial pathogens and their antibiotic resistance
Till Bachmann (University of Stuttgart)

10:15-10:30 Highly sensitive tests and biosensors for cyanide detection in coral reef fish using cyanide degrading microbial enzymes and formate dehydrogenase system
Reinhart Renneberg (Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology)

10:30-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-11:05 Electrochemistry-based applications of oxidoreductase reactions
Tokuji Ikeda (Kyoto University)

11:05-11:20 Lipid nutrients, marker genes and nuclear receptors elucidated by chip technology and reporter gene assay
Friedrich Spener (University of Muenster)

11:20-11:35 From aptamers to drug-leads
Michael Famulok (University of Bonn)

11:35-11:45 Closing Remarks
Rolf Schmid

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