EEC XXIV in Toulouse, France!

The 24^th edition of the Enzyme Engineering Conference (EEC) will take place in Toulouse, France – for the first time! – from 24 to 28 September 2017.

This international congress, organised by Prof. Pierre Monsan (TWB) and Prof. Magali Remaud-Siméon (LISBP-INSA), is the main discussion forum on new scientific developments regarding enzyme technology and biocatalysis. It highlights emerging methodologies and focuses on both fundamental and practical aspects of this field.

This conference series typically draws international participation (200-250 people) both from industry and academia.

The specific topics will include:

• Computational design and artificial catalysts
• Enzymes and Synthetic Biology
• Sequence and function-based discovery
• Structure-Activity-Dynamics-Evolution
• Biocatalysis I Enzyme engineering I Process development
• Enzymes and Sustainable Development.

The programme gathers

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Wolfgang Aehle, B.R.A.I.N Aktiengesellschaft, Germany Miguel Alcalde, Institute of Catalysis, ICP, CSIC, Madrid, Spain Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology, USA (Opening Keynote Speaker) Yasuhisa Asano, Laboratory of Enzyme Chemistry, Biotechnology Research Center, Toyama, Japan Kai Baldenius, BASF, Germany Torben Borchert, Novozymes, Denmark Uwe Bornscheuer, Dept. Biotechnology and Enzyme Catalysis, University of Greifswald, Germany Véronique de Berardinis, Genoscope, CEA, France Marc Delcourt, Global-BioEnergies, France Robert DiCosimo, DuPont, USA Vincent G. H. Eijsink, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway Kurt Faber, Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry University of Graz, Austria Marc Fontecave, Chemistry of Biological Processes, Collège de France, France Daniela Grabs-Röthlisberger, Arzeda Corp., USA Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hauer, University of Stuttgart, Germany Molly He, Illumina, USA Bernard Henrissat, Laboratoire Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques (AFMB), France Don Hilvert, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland Yoshihiko Hirose, EnzymeWorks, Inc., Japan Florian Hollfelder;  University of Cambridge, UK Dick Janssen, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Dorothee Kern, Dept. of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, USA Byung-Gee Kim, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea Anu Koivula, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Tanja Kortemme, University of California, San Francisco, USA Takashi Kuriki, Ezaki Gliko, Japan Stefan Lutz, Department of Chemistry, Emory University, USA Marc Maestracci, Adisseo, France Philippe Marlières, Heurisko, USA Alain Marty, Carbios. France Oliver May, DSM, Netherlands Karl Heinz Maurer, AB Enzymes, Germany Vesna Mitchell, Codexis, USA Joelle Pelletier, Université de Montréal, Canada Antoni Planas, IQS Universitat Ramon RUll, Barcelona, Spain Gerard Roelfes, University of Groningen, Netherlands Olivier Rolland, Energie Nouvelle Claudia Schmidt Dannert, University of Minnesota, USA Ulrich Schwaneberg,  RWTH Aachen University, Germany Eriko Takano, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, UK Dan Tawfik, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Israel Andreas Vogel, C-LECTA, Germany Steve Withers, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Canada Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

The label “ESOF 2018 – Toulouse, European City of Science” was obtained for this event.

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*About ESOF Toulouse 2018: The biennial European event will take place in Toulouse “European City of Science” from 9 to 14 July 2018. “Sharing science: towards new horizons” will be the motto of this ESOF 2018 edition, a 6-in-1 event including various sections “Science”, “Science policy”, “Science to Business”, “Careers” and “Media & Science Communication” and a “Science in the City” programme dedicated to the general public. Health and its challenges, sustainable development, transport of the future, the digital world or ethics in science are some of the themes that will be tackled through conferences, exhibitions and satellite events.