Programme
On this page the programme and sessions can be found.
Programme overview
Sunday 15th June 2025
| TIME | SCHEDULE |
| 17:00 | Pieter Dorrestein |
| 18:00 | Welcoming Reception |
Monday 16th June 2025
| TIME | SCHEDULE | |
| 09:00 | Plenary: Anne Marie Wehenkel | |
| Coffee Break | ||
| 10:00 |
Session 1 Development and Growth Chairs Dennis Claessen Dagmara Jakimowicz Invited Speakers Susan Schlimpert Yasuo Ohnishi |
Session 2 Phylogenomics and Taxonomy Chairs Martha Trujillo Wen-Jun Li Invited Speakers Hilal Ay Imen Nouiou |
| 12:15 | LUNCH | |
| 13:30 | Plenary: Zixin Deng | |
| 14:45 |
Session 3 Synthetic Biology and Genetics Chairs Lixin Zhang Tilmann Weber Invited Speakers Dagmara Jakimowicz Hahk-Soo Kang |
Session 4 Genomics and Natural Products Biosynthesis Chairs Marnix Medema Nadine Ziemert Invited Speakers Eric Helfrich Jaclyn Winter |
Tuesday 17th June 2025
| TIME | SCHEDULE | |
| 09:00 | Plenary: Kira Weissman | |
| Coffee Break | ||
| 10:00 |
Session 5 Natural Products Discovery and Biosynthesis Chairs Brad Moore Christine Beemelmanns Invited Speakers Ben Shen Ling Ding Katherine Duncan |
Session 6 Primary metabolism and its connection with secondary metabolism Chairs Evi Stegmann Kenji Ueda Invited Speakers Sébastien Rigali Takeshi Hosaka Hyun-Uk Kim |
| 12:15 | Networking Lunch Student-Mentors | |
| 13:30 | Plenary: Lone Gram | |
| 14:45 |
Session 7 Industrial Applications and Biotechnology Chairs Paul Hoskisson Olga Genilloud Invited Speakers Cuauhtémoc Licona-Cassani Daniel Oves-Costales |
Session 8 Actinobacterial Interactions Chairs Cameron Currie Arinthip Thamchaipenet Invited Speakers Matt Hutchings Reed Stubbendieck |
Wednesday 18th June 2025
| TIME | SCHEDULE | |
| 09:00 | Plenary: Byung Kwan Cho | |
| Coffee Break | ||
| 10:00 |
Session 9 Regulatory Networks in Actinobacteria Chairs Gilles van Wezel Sébastien Rigali Invited Speakers Mohammad R Seyedsayamdost Dawn Bignell Chaoxian Bai |
Session 10 Ecology of Actinomycetes Chairs Geertje van Keulen Daniel Rozen Invited Speakers Tamara Martin Pozas Linda Kinkel |
| Lunch - Workshops | ||
| 13:30 | Free Afternoon | |
| 14:45 | Feast and NO Famine BBQ | |
Thursday 19th June 2025
| TIME | SCHEDULE | |
| 09:00 | Plenary: Jos Raaijmakers | |
| Coffee Break | ||
| 10:00 |
Session 11 Systems Biology Chairs Nigel Mouncey Lorena Fernández Martínez Invited Speakers Alejandra Prieto-Davó Hannah Augustijn |
Session 12 New Developments in Actinobacterial Biology Chairs Justin Nodwell Marie Elliot Invited Speakers Natalia Tschowri Julia Fruntzke |
| Coffee Break | ||
| 12:30 | Plenary: Justin Nodwell - Closing Remarks | |