Thanks to all that joined BioToP Meets Industry and made the event a success! Special gratitude to the Austrian Science Fund FWF for funding the event with their Knowledge Transfer Event Grant and thereby helping to connect industry professionals with the next generation of protein biotechnology researchers.
Our symposium included selected research presentations by our PhD students, a poster session covering all current projects in BioToP and interactive discussion rounds designed to encourage open exchange between participants.
The networking dinner gave everyone additional time to connect in a relaxed setting.
Location: BOKU University - Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna
PROGRAM
10:00 Registration
10:30 Session 1
- Fiona Spreitzer Surface amino acid selection for well-expressible proteins
- Andreas Fradinger Plants-on-a-chip: microfluidics-based in-situ tracking of protein body formation in plant cells
- Chiara Amoroso Ancestral α-amino acid ester acyltransferases with higher thermostability for dipeptide synthesis
- Alice Cassiani Unravelling the structural role of the [2Fe-2S] cluster in actinobacterial coproporphyrin ferrochelatase
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Poster session
14:15 Session 2
- Dominik Hörtnagel Beyond classical models: How QM/MM simulations reveal enzymatic reaction mechanisms
- Miriam Fernández-Giro Find your protein look-alike: a numeric surface shape similarity search
- Stanislav Juračka Expanding the synthetic biology toolbox of Komagataella phaffii with promoters and terminators from diverse yeast species
- Sophie Huber REM-BAC - a scalable path to precision engineered producer cell lines
15:45 Coffee break
16:00 Discussion rounds
17:30 Networking dinner
Participants had the opportunity to:
- gain direct insights into current research in protein biotechnology,
- meet early-career scientists who will soon enter the job market, and
- engage in small-group discussions with doctoral researchers on topics related to science, career paths, and collaboration opportunities.