AGENDA SCIENTIFIC MEETING CYANOFACTORY
18-20 NOVEMBER 2013, PORTO, PORTUGAL
| MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER [CyanoFactory MEMBERS ONLY] | |
| Breakfast | |
| 09.00-09.15 | Welcome, Schedule, What is new in CyanoFactory (PT & PL) |
| 09.15-10.00 | Update WP1: ToolBox for cyanobacterial synthetic biology (UU) |
| 10.00-10.45 | Update WP2: DataWarehouse/Bioinformatics (UM) |
| 10.45-11.00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11.00-11.45 | Update WP3: Improvement of chassis growth, functionality and robustness (IBMC) |
| 11.45-12.30 | Update WP4: Introduction of custom designed hydrogen producing units (UU) |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30-14.15 | Update WP5: Improvement of photosynthetic efficiency towards H2-production (RUB) |
| 14.15-15.00 | Update WP6: Biosafety (UL) |
| 15.00-15.15 | Coffee/Tea |
| 15.15-16.00 | Update WP7: Analyses of the purpose designed cyanobacterial cells to identify bottlenecks and suggest further improvements (USFD) |
| 16.00-16.45 | Update WP8: Metabolic modelling of the engineered cells (UPVLC) |
| TUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER [CyanoFactory MEMBERS ONLY] | |
| Breakfast | |
| 09.00-09.45 | Update WP9: Development of an efficient photobioreactor unit (KSD) |
| 09.45-10.30 | Update WP10: Assembly and performance assessment of a larger prototype photobioreactor system (CNR-ISE) |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11.00-11.45 | Update WP12: Dissemination, publication policy (UU) |
| 11.45-12.30 | Update WP11: Management (UU) |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30-14.30 | Mid-term evaluation |
| 14.30-15.00 | Workshop Ljubljana |
| 15.00-15.15 | Coffee/Tea |
| 15.15-16.00 | Individual WP and common issues |
| 16.00-16.45 | Collaborations between WPs |
17.00-19.30 |
Steering Committee Meeting |
| 20:00 | Dinner at Casa Agrícola |
| WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER [OPEN DAY] | |
| Breakfast | |
| 09.00-10.00 | INVITED LECTURE: The CyanofactoryTM - A synthetic biology approach to develop a novel marine cyanobacterial bioprocesses Koji Sode (Dept. Biotechnology and Dept. of Industrial Technology and Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology; Japan), coordinator of Cyanofactory project in Japan |
| 10.00-11.00 | INVITED LECTURE: Understanding and Engineering cyanobacteria for low-value hydrocarbon fuel production Patrik Jones (Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences; United Kingdom), coordinator of EU project DirectFuel |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11.30-12.30 | INVITED LECTURE: Engineering cyanobacteria into biosolar cell factories. Klaas Hellingwerf (Laboratory for Microbiology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam; Netherlands) member of the management team of a major Dutch initiative in research in solar energy: "Towards BioSolar Cells |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30-14.30 | INVITED LECTURE: How Synechocystis adapts to changes in environment: A meta-analysis of its transcriptional responses. Matthias Futschik (Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Laboratory, Centre for Molecular and Structural Biomedicine, University of Algarve; Portugal); Research group leader in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at University of Algarve |
| 14.30-15.30 | ”CyanoFactory” by Peter Lindblad (Dept Chemistry – Angstrom Laboratory, Uppsala University; Sweden), coordinator of FP7 project Cyanofactory |
| 15.30-16.30 | Collaborations with other projects with similar activities and goals |
| 16.30-17.00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 17.00-18.00 | Collaborations with other projects with similar activities and goals |
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