‼️ Deadline extended‼️ Great news! The abstract submission deadline for oral presentations at #NextGenBiocat has been postponed! Don't miss the chance to share your research with valuable scientists in the field. 🔹 New deadline: 16th of March NextGenBiocat BiocatLabPolimi

Only 5 more days left to register for #NextGenBiocat (or fewer if we reach maximum capacity)! Register and submit your poster abstract at nextgenbiocat.org.

Ready and excited to welcome you all in Milano! 🎉🎊🎉 NextGenBiocat

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Our first speaker Christian Schnepel with a presentation on Next-generation enzymes for new chemicals and pharmaceuticals! NextGenBiocat BiocatLabPolimi

Let' move on with Henrik Terholsen University of Groningen and Philip Jamieson University College Dublin with a presentation about nitroreductases and flow synthesis of aryl aldehydes! NextGenBiocat

2nd session with Adrian Bunzel (ETH Zurich), Giacomo Londi (Pisa University) and Rosario Vanella (Basel University) with contributions about AI applied to enzyme evolution, Protein-driven e¯ transfer in FAP and Mutational patterns of substrate specificity in promiscuous enzymes.

Our 3rd section with Felix Kaspar (University of Groningen), Luca Nespoli (University of Milan), and Filip Boratynski (Wroclaw University) with presentations on lipid synthesis by a glycerolprenylase, flow biocatalysis and innovative biovalorization techniques NextGenBiocat

Session n. 4 Tom Roberts (Keele University) and Jana Vojcikova (University of Lille) presenting flow biocatalysis applied to UDP-sugars and immobilization of oxidation enzymes on MOF for methane-to-methanol synthesis. NextGenBiocat

2nd invited speaker of today Ruben Ragg with a contribution titled "Getting published in 2025 and beyond: how to adapt to a rapidly changing publication landscape" NextGenBiocat

The 3rd invited speaker in the-today-session is Iustina Slabu (Janssen Pharmaceutica) with a lecture titled "Harnessing biocatalysis for sustainable pharmaceutical innovation" NextGenBiocat

Morning Session with amazing scientists from industry Andrea Knight (Codexis Inc.) and Lucy A. Harwood (AstraZeneca) presenting "Engineering enzymes for RNA oligonucleotide manufacturing" and "Biocatalysis in early-phase drug discovery" NextGenBiocat

2nd session with Amber L. Barry (UCD) and Mona Haase (University of Dusseldorf) talking about convergent biocatalysis for the synthesis of alkaloids and application of methyltransferases for natural product preparation. NextGenBiocat

Let's move to Kristina Pisak (UCL), Jelena Spasic (Graz University) and Simon Przetak (University of Dusseldorf) with presentations on biocatalytic cyclopropanation, monooxygenases for aliphatic ester preparation and advanced alkylation via prenyltransferases. NextGenBiocat

We have just started the #BiocatCodeExpander satellite event coordinated by Ivana Drienovska NextGenBiocat

Andrea Hupfeld (University of Regensburg) is the first invited speaker of #BiocatCodeExpander satellite event! Ivana Drienovska NextGenBiocat

PhD Pitches from #BiocadCodeExpander Jan Hendrick Illies (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Lauren Quintero (Universitat Rovira I Virgili), Cecilia Córdoba Quintero (CIC biomaGUNE) and Odyssefs Ioannis Pantrlakis (Graz University) Ivana Drienovska NextGenBiocat

PhD Pitches part 2. Rosa Teijeiro (Freie Universitat Berlin), Liu Yang (University of Groningen) and Emilia Iglesias-Moncayo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Ivana Drienovska NextGenBiocat

Last invited speaker of #BiocatCodeExpander satellite event is Amanda Jarvis (University of Edinburgh) with a presentation titled "Using genetic code expansion to access artificial metalloproteins" Ivana Drienovska NextGenBiocat

Thank you to all of you! BiocatLabPolimi NextGenBiocat