Program
Sunday, September 15th 2019
Registration
Welcome
Session I
Kyle Dunbar, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena, Germany
Elucidation of a noncanonical pathway for thioamidated nonribosomal peptide assembly
Laura Franz, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarbrücken, Germany
Understanding bottromycin biosynthesis
Coffee Break
Keynote lecture I
Douglas A. Mitchell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Big data genomics for discovery of new molecules and enzyme chemistry
Dinner
Poster Session I (No. 1 - 39)
Monday, September 16th 2019
Session II
Nils Böhringer, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany
Biosynthesis of Darobactin, a novel antibiotic that selectively kills Gram-negative pathogens
Cornelia Hermes, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Biosynthesis of the depsipeptide FR900359 – Investigation of the first NRPS module FrsA
Alicia Engelbrecht, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Biosynthesis of the cyclopropyl moiety of belactosin A
Roy Meoded, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Non-canonical polyketide synthases as a source for new enzymology
Coffee Break
Session III
Chantal Bader, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarbrücken, Germany
Supercritical fluid extraction for myxobacterial secondary metabolomics
Daniel Männle, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Comparative genomics to metabolomics: Nocobactin production in Nocardia
Daniel Last, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena, Germany
Surprise, surprise – A novel coenzyme F420 derivative
Lunch
Session IV
Julia Krumbholz, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Elucidation of a quorum sensing like regulatory network in Nostoc punctiforme PCC 73102
Thomas Böttcher, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Elucidating and controlling chemical interactions of human pathogens
Claudius Lenz, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
Out of the blue: Oxidative enzymatic coupling of Psilocybe indole alkaloids
Huijuan Guo, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena, Germany
Characterization of morphogens in the marine polyp Hydractinia echinata
Coffee Break
Session V
Svetlana Kalinina, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Auranthine – the main metabolite from Penicillium aurantiogriseum: Refined structure, absolute configuration, cytotoxicity and total synthesis
Jazmin Meza-Torres, Pasteur Institut, Paris, France
Listeriolysin S is a contact-dependent bacteriocin from Listeria monocytogenes that targets the bacterial cell membrane
Sari Rasheed, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarbrücken, Germany
Using zebrafish as a model for tuberculosis to test potential anti-tubercular natural products
Asfandyar Sikandar, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarbrücken, Germany
Adaptation of a bacterial multidrug resistance system revealed by the structure and function of AlbA
Poster Session (No. 40 - 77)
Conference Dinner
Tuesday, September 17th 2019
Session VI
Maria Lopatniuk, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
The platform for biosynthetic engineering of RiPPs
Marta Rodríguez Estévez, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Discovering new natural drugs and biosynthetic gene clusters through heterologous expression
Ryan Musumba Awori, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Refactoring a silent biosynthetic gene cluster in Xenorhabdus ishibashii yields a novel dodecapeptide
Caroline Autenrieth, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
High-Level production of industrially interesting carotenoids in the purple bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum using new synthetic biology tools ("Purple BioBricksTM") and rational design
Coffee Break
Keynote lecture II
Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, Princeton University, USA
Using old antibiotics to find new ones
Poster awards
Closing remarks
VAAM Business Meeting