TIME

SCHEDULE

17:00

18:00

Opening Keynote

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Welcoming Reception

09:00

Plenary: Anne Marie Wehenkel

Coffee Break

10:00

Session 1

Development and Growth

Chairs

Dennis Claessen

Dagmara Jakimowicz

Invited Speakers:

Session 2

Phylogenomics and taxonomy

Chairs

Martha Trujillo

Wen-Jun Li

Invited Speakers:

12:15

Lunch

13:30

Plenary: Zixin Deng

14:45

Session 3

Synthetic Biology and Genetics

Chairs

Lixin Zhang

Tilmann Weber

Session 4

Genomics of Natural Products Biosynthesis

Chairs

Marnix Medema

Nadine Ziemert

TIME

SCHEDULE

09:00

Plenary: Kira Weissman

Coffee Break

10:00

Session 5

Natural Products Discovery and Biosynthesis

Chairs

Brad Moore

Christine Beemelmanns

Session 6

Primary metabolism and its connection with secondary metabolism

Chairs

Evi Stegmann

Kenji Ueda

12:15

Networking Lunch Student-Mentors

13:30

Plenary: Lone Gram

14:45

Session 7

Industrial Applications and Biotechnology

Chairs

Paul Hoskisson

Olga Genilloud

Session 8

Actinobacterial interactions

Chairs

Cameron Currie

Arinthip Thamchaipenet

TIME

SCHEDULE

09:00

Plenary: Byung Kwan Cho

Coffee Break

10:00

Session 9

Regulatory Networks in Actinobacteria

Chairs

Gilles van Wezel

Sebastien Rigali

Session 10

Ecology of Actinomycetes

Chairs

Geertje van Keulen

Daniel Rozen

12:15

Lunch-Workshops

Free Afternoon

19:00

Feast and NO famine BBQ

TIME

SCHEDULE

09:00

Plenary: Jos Raaijmakers

Coffee Break

10:00

Session 11

Systems Biology

Chairs

Nigel Mouncey

Lorena Fernández Martínez

Session 12

New Developments in Actinobacterial Biology

Chairs

Justin Nodwell

Coffee Break

12:30

Plenary: Justin Nodwell – Closing Remarks