Opening keynote & Welcome reception

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Session 1 Development and Growth
Chairs: Dennis Claessen & Dagmara Jakimowicz

Session 2 Phylogenomics and taxonomy
Chairs: Martha Trujillo

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Session 3 Synthetic Biology and Genetics
Chairs: Lixin Zhang & Tilmann Weber

Session 4 Genomics of Natural Products Biosynthesis
Chairs: Marnix Medema

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Session 5 Natural Products Discovery and Biosynthesis
Chairs: Brad Moore & Christine Beemelmanns

Session 6 Primary metabolism
Chairs: Evi Stegmann

Networking Lunch Student-Mentors

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Session 7 Industrial Applications and Biotechnology
Chairs: Paul Hoskisson & Olga Genilloud

Session 8 Actinobacterial interactions
Chairs: Cameron Currie & Arinthip Thamchaipenet

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Session 9 Regulatory Networks in Actinobacteria
Chairs: Gilles van Wezel & Sebastien Rigali

Session 10 Ecology of Actinomycetes
Chairs: Geertje van Keulen & Paco Barona

Lunch-Workshops

Feast and NO famine BBQ

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Session 11 Systems Biology
Chairs: Nigel Mouncey & Lorena Fernandez Martinez

Session 12 New Developments in Actinobacterial Biology
Chairs: Justin Nodwell

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