Preliminary Technical Program for ME16

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Sunday, June 15, 2025
13:30-17:00	Registration and Badge Pick-Up
15:15-15:30	Opening Remarks
15:30-16:00	Keynote 1 Christopher Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
16:00-16:25	Lightning Session 1: New Frontiers of Metabolic Engineering Chairs: Verena Siewers, Chalmers University of Technology & Pavel Dvořák, Masaryk University
16:25-17:00	Break
17:00-18:00	Session 1: Metabolic Engineering for Biofuels and Biochemicals Chairs: Elke Negoigt, Constructor University Bremen & Gyoo Yeol Jung, Pohang University of Science and Technology Confirmed Presenters: Sang Yup Lee, KAIST Brian Pfleger, University of Wisconsin
18:00-18:30	Rapid Fire Session 1: 1-20 Chairs: Yanran Li, University of California Riverside
18:30-21:00	Poster Session 1A & Opening Reception

Monday, June 16, 2025
7:30-8:30	Registration and Badge Pick-Up
7:30-8:30	Breakfast
8:30-9:30	Session 2: Metabolic Engineering for Health Chairs: Ji-Sook Hahn, Seoul National University & Mattheos Koffas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Confirmed Presenters: Matthew Chang, National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Nathan Lewis, University of California San Diego Tae Seok Moon, Craig Venter Institute
9:30-10:00	Keynote 2 Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, Novo Nordisk Foundation
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-11:30	Session 3: Metabolic Engineering for Food and Feed Ingredients and Agriculture Chairs: Elena Brevnova, Aise Bio, UK & Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, Imperial College London Confirmed Presenters: Kevin Vestrepen, KU Leuven Tiangang Liu, Wuhan University Vayu Hill-Maini, Stanford University
11:30-12:00	Panel Discussion: Consumer Acceptance, Public Opinion, Regulation of GM-based Products
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-14:30	Poster Session 1B
14:30-15:30	Session 4: Metabolic Engineering for Gas Fermentation Chairs: Lars Nielsen, University of Queensland & Adam Thompson, LanzaTech Confirmed Presenters: Esteban Marcellin, University of Queensland Bastian Molitor, University of Tübingen
15:30-16:00	Lightning Session 2 Chairs: Birgitta Ebert, University of Queensland & Antonius van Maris, KTH
16:00-16:30	Break
16:30-17:30	Session 5: Metabolic Engineering for Plastic Recycling Chairs: Carrie Eckert, Oak Ridge National Laboratory & Pablo Ivan Nikel, DTU Confirmed Presenters: Lars Blank, RWTH Aachen University George Guo-Qiang Chen, Tsinghua University Allison Werner, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
17:30-18:00	Rapid Fire Session 2: 21-40 Chairs: Julie Ming Liang, Opera Biosciences & Eric Young, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
18:00-21:00	Poster Session 2A & Reception

Tuesday, June 17, 2025
7:30-8:30	Registration and Badge Pick-Up
7:30-8:30	Breakfast
8:30-9:10	Greg Stephanopolous Award Lecture
9:10-10:10	Session 6: Genome Editing Tools and Methods Chairs: Michael Bott, Forschungszentrum Jülich & Yaojun Tong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
10:10-10:40	Break
10:40-11:30	Session 7: Modeling, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence Chairs: Feiran Li, Tsinghua University & Aleksej Zelezniak, Chalmers University of Technology Confirmed Presenters: Vassily Hatzimanikatis, EPFL Bernhard Palsson, University of California San Diego
11:30-12:00	Panel Discussion: How will data and AI change the field?
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-14:30	Poster Session 2B
14:30	Ticketed Events - Copenhagen Tours **Pre-Registration Required! Make sure to register for only 1 tour when you register, if you need to add-on or change your tour contact customerservice@aiche.org.

Wednesday, June 18, 2025
7:30-8:30	Registration and Badge Pick-Up
7:30-8:30	Breakfast
8:30-9:30	Session 8: Metabolic Engineering of Cyanobacteria and Plant Cells Chairs: Weslee Glenn, Ayana Bio & Paul Hudson, KTH
9:30-10:00	Keynote 3 Nelson Barton, Genomatica
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-11:35	Session 9: Biomanufacturing: From Lab to Industry Chairs: Vratislav Stovicek, Arxada & Michael Koepke, LanzaTech Confirmed Presenters: Katja Parschat, Novonesis
11:35-12:00	Panel Discussion From Lab to Industry
12:00-13:30	Lunch & Networking
13:30-15:00	Session 10: Start-Up Pitch Competition Final Chairs: Claudia Vickers, BioBuilt Solutions and Queensland University of Technology & Markus Herrgård, BioInnovation Institute
15:00-15:30	Break
15:30-15:50	Lightning Session 3: Talks from SMEs
15:50-17:15	ME16 Award Ceremony International Metabolic Engineering Award Lecture James E. Bailey Award Poster Awards
17:45-19:00	Canal Tour
19:00-22:00	Conference Banquet

Thursday, June 19, 2025
7:30-9:00	Registration and Badge Pick-Up
7:30-9:00	Breakfast
9:00-10:00	Session 11: Evolutionary Protein and Strain Engineering Chairs: Adam Feist, University of California San Diego & Ditte Hededam Welner, DTU Confirmed Presenters: Christopher Johnson, NREL
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-11:30	Session 12: Metabolic Engineering for Biochemicals and Biomaterials Chairs: Kayla Nemr, Geno & Si Jae Park, Ewha Womans University Confirmed Presenters: Xiaoxia Xia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Chao Zhong, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology
11:30-12:00	Panel Discussion: Reflections on the present and future of Metabolic Engineering Moderator: Hal Alper, University of Texas Austin
12:00-12:15	Closing Remarks
14:00-17:00	IMES Early Career Researchers Workshop

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