20 years anniversary symposium

• Transforming Tradition: How Fermentation Shapes Today’s Biotech 
  room 1.02-1.05, chaired by Carlien Verberne
   
  - How to scale and commercialize a methane biofilter
  Thom de Jager, BSc (Fermentation Technician HAN BioCentre - Biobased Innovations) & Bob Ignacio, PhD (Impact Developer HAN BioCentre / Biotech Booster)
   
  - From Waste to Taste: Fermenting rejected tomatoes into a marketable and delicious product
  Patrick Lemmens (LLTB - Limburgse Land en Tuinbouwbond) & Laura Claret Fernández, PhD (Principle Scientist Fermentation Technology & DSP HAN BioCentre - Biobased Innovations) 
   
• Building Better Medicines: The Role of Key Technologies
  room 2.01, chaired by Dennis Löwik
   
  - Machine learning-driven discovery of synthetic infochemicals to control vector-borne disease
  Koen Dechering, PhD (Vice President Business Development TropIQ) 
   
  - Organoids in Drug Discovery and Toxicity Screening 
  Bart Smeets, PhD (Associate Professor RUMC & HAN BioCentre - Drug Discovery) 
   
• Multipurpose use of fiber hemp
  room 1.01, chaired by Karin Struijs
   
  - Biorefinery of fiber hemp
  Karin Struijs, PhD (Principle Scientist Biorefinery & Analytical Chemistry HAN BioCentre - Biobased Innovations) 
   
  - Secondary plant metabolites from fiber hemp
  Bo Saals, MSc (PhD candidate WUR)  
   
  - HEMP…. THE GREEN GOLD FOR OUR COMMON FUTURE 
  Rene Sauveur (Founder & Owner Pantanova bv)  
   
• Unlocking the full potential of Biochemistry: Inside the Molecular Toolbox
  room 1.06, chaired by Christof Francke
   
  - Biobased Innovation and the central role of unlocking Biochemical diversity
  Christof Francke, PhD (Professor Biobased Innovations HAN)
   
  - Microbial oil from paper
  Lectoraat Biobased Innovations 
   
  - Uncovering biodegradation 
  Lectoraat Biobased Innovations 

• Towards Valorisation of Lignin
  room 1.01, chaired by Piret Saar-Reismaa
   
  - Towards the valorisation of lignin: The need for novel, green technologies
  Karin Struijs, PhD (Principle Scientist Biorefinery & Analytical Chemistry HAN BioCentre - Biobased Innovations) 
   
  - Sustainable Materials from Lignin 
  Sandra Corderí Gándara, PhD (Researcher Biobased Building Blocks & Products MNext) 
   
• The Future of Drug Discovery and Development
  room 2.01, chaired by Dennis Löwik
   
  - Scaffold Hopping Approach on New 15-lipoxygenase-1 Inhibitor Discovery
  Stefan van Rootselaar, PhD (Lecturer-Researcher HAN BioCentre - Drug Discovery)
   
  - Towards a New Class of Alpha-Helix Mimetics to Modulate Protein-Protein Interactions 
  Emma Schuler, MSc (PhD candidate Radboud University) & Florian Zielke, MSc (PhD candidate Radboud University) 
   
• Unlocking New Possibilities in Fermentation Technology
  room 1.02-1.05, chaired by Laura Claret Fernández
  - Cellular Agriculture NL & role of HAN in this consortium 
  Chantal Christis, PhD (Program Manager CAN) & Carlien Verberne, MSc (Program Manager HAN BioCentre) 
   
  - Unlocking New Possibilities in Fermentation Technology 
  Wim de Laat, MD PhD (Founder & co-owner The Protein Brewery & The Protein Express) 
   
  - Bacterial Cellulose 
  Yvonne Das, MSc (Co-founder & CTO BIOMA lab) 
   
• Threads of Tomorrow: Data-Driven and Sustainable Textiles
  room 1.06, chaired by Christof Francke
   
  - On the central role of data in a circular biobased economy (short introduction) 
  Christof Francke, PhD (professor Biobased Innovations HAN)
   
  - Sustainability in textiles  
  Anke ten Berge, PhD (Senior Researcher Sustainable & Functional Textiles, Saxion) 
   
  - From Cotton to Color with a DoE approach
  Bram Visscher, MSc (Fermentation Researcher HAN) 

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