C3-Konferenzzeitplan – Himmelfahrtstagung on Bioprocess Engineering 2026

Himmelfahrtstagung on Bioprocess Engineering 2026

Monday – 05-11-2026

08:20

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Welcome Address

Chair(s) Dr. Jochen Schaub (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Holtmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Room: E 1 - 3

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Form of presentation: Lecture

Duration: 10 Minutes

08:30

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Keynote Polona Žnidaršič-Plazl "Flow Biocatalysis - From Biocatalyst and Medium Engineering to Reactor Design"

Chair(s) Prof. Dr. Kathrin Castiglione (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Room: E 1 - 3

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Form of presentation: Lecture

Duration: 45 Minutes

08:30

Flow Biocatalysis: From Biocatalyst and Medium Engineering to Reactor Design

Prof. Dr. Polona Znidarsic Plazl | University of Ljubljana | Slovenia

09:15

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Biocatalytic and Hybrid Biomanufacturing Concepts

Chair(s) Prof. Dr. Kathrin Castiglione (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Room: E 1 - 3

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Form of presentation: Lecture

Duration: 60 Minutes

09:15

Expanding the Toolbox for Biocatalytic Halogenation by Identification and Characterization of Three Heterologous Expressed Vanadium Chloroperoxidases

Sonja Schönrock | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany

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09:45

Electrifying Lactococcus lactis to sustain food industry

Dr. Bin Lai | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig/DE | Germany

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10:15

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Coffee Break

Room : E 1 - 3

Duration : 45 Minutes

11:00

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Biocatalytic and Hybrid Biomanufacturing Concepts

Chair(s) Prof. Dr. Kathrin Castiglione (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Room: E 1 - 3

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Form of presentation: Lecture

Duration: 30 Minutes

11:00

Adaptive laboratory evolution of yeast enables ethyl butyrate production in a microbial co-culture with coupled extraction

Katharina Oehlenschläger | RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau | Germany

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11:30

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Poster Pitch Session 1 (P 02, P 03, P 04, P 06, P 08, P 10, P 13, P 15)

Chair(s) Prof. Dr. Andreas Liese (Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH))

Room: E 1 - 3

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Form of presentation: Lecture

Duration: 30 Minutes

11:30

P 02: Development of In-Situ Product Recovery for Microbial Phenol Production with Pseudomonas taiwanensis

Constantin Maaß | RWTH Aachen University | Germany

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11:33

P 03: On-line determination of protein aggregation using Dynamic Light Scattering

Raphael Nieß | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany

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11:36

P 04: Antibiotic-free plasmid selection and maintenance via inducible complementation

Katherine E. Brechun | Gen-H; Genetic Engineering Heidelberg GmbH | Germany

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11:39

P 06: Experimental and in-silico study of biofilm on the scale of micro pores

Loisa Borde | Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg | Germany
Maike Werdin | Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg | Germany

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11:42

P 08: From Microtiter plate to Stirred tank reactor: Oxygen Transfer Rate in Cell Culture

Philipp Lichtenberg | RWTH Aachen University | Germany

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11:45

P 10: Engineering Pseudomonas taiwanensis VLB120 for hydroxylation of L-lysine fueled by the Weimberg pathway

Julian Handke | TU Dortmund University | Germany

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11:48

P 13: Protein-Dependent Performance of Sec-Type Signal Peptides in Corynebacterium glutamicum

Vera Waffenschmidt | Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH | Germany

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11:51

P 15: Mimicking industrial-scale mixing conditions in a laboratory-scale single multi compartment bioreactor system

Jonas Barczyk | Institut of bichemical engineering, Stuttgart University | Germany

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12:00

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Engineering of Cell Factories and Novel Production Hosts

Chair(s) Prof. Dr. Jorgen Magnus (RWTH Aachen University)

Room: E 1 - 3

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Form of presentation: Lecture

Duration: 60 Minutes

12:00

Next-Generation rAAV Production Cells via Targeted miRNA Engineering

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Otte | University of Applied Sciences Biberach (HBC) | Germany

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12:30

Rational design of a L-lysine overproducing Vibrio natriegens strain

Elly Straube | TU Dresden | Germany

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13:00

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Lunch Break

Room : E 1 - 3

Duration : 60 Minutes

14:00

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Engineering of Cell Factories and Novel Production Hosts

Chair(s) Prof. Dr. Jorgen Magnus (RWTH Aachen University)

Room: E 1 - 3

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Form of presentation: Lecture

Duration: 60 Minutes

14:00

Automation Across Scales: High-Throughput Strain Engineering and Bioprocess Validation of Indigoidine Production in Corynebacterium glutamicum

Tobias Michael Rosch | Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH | Germany

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14:30

Of nitrosative poisoning and antibiotics: Bracing Corynebacterium glutamicum for large-scale isobutanol production from wheat straw hydrolysate

Christoph Gunkel | Technical University of Munich | Germany

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15:00

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Poster Pitch Session 2 (P 11, P 17, P 19, P 21, P 22, P 23, P 24, P 25)

Chair(s) Dr.-Ing. Judith Stiefelmaier (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)

Room: E 1 - 3

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Form of presentation: Lecture

Duration: 30 Minutes

15:00

P 11: Biotechnological Production of Fumaric Acid by Rhizopus arrhizus

Jana Wilhelm | Thünen-Institute of Agricultural Technology | Germany

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15:03

P 17: Real-Time Assessment of Yeast Vitality in Bioprocesses: Coupling MIR-Spectroscopy with Neural Networks

Livius Strachotta | Technical University of Munich | Germany

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15:06

P 19: Real-Time Inline Monitoring of Bioprocesses Using Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy

Yaren Kars | Irubis GmbH | Germany

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15:09

P 21: Microalgae cultivation in a Floating Light Ball Reactor (FBLR®)

Prof. Dr. Timo Gehring | htw saar, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes | Germany

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15:12

P 22: The Pivotal Impact of Dissolved Oxygen on Lactate Metabolism Robustness in Mammalian Bioprocesses

Samuel Kienzle | Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG/University of Stuttgart | Germany

15:15

P 23: Mass-Heat Transfer Constraints in Complex Fermentations: Integrating Bio-energetics Models for ‘Xanthomonas campestris’ with Modern Biostatistical methods

Lehar Zaidi | Global Clinical Research Organization (CRO), USA-India | India

15:18

P 24: Establishment of a suspension-adapted Vero cell line for high-titer measles virus production

Prof. Dr. Denise Salzig | University of Applied Sciences Mittelhessen | Germany

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15:21

P 25: Enzymatic Oxidations with Unspecific Peroxygenases in Bio-Electrochemical Reactors

Roshini Ravi Shankar | Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) | Germany

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15:30

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Coffee Break

Room : E 1 - 3

Duration : 30 Minutes

16:00

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Poster Pitch Session 3 (P 27, P 28, P 30, P 31, P 32, P 33, P 34 )

Chair(s) Makram Fataeri (Universität Bielefeld)

Room: E 1 - 3

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Form of presentation: Lecture

Duration: 30 Minutes

16:00

P 27: Analysis across scales: integrated insights in metabolism and economic feasibility of recombinant protein production from carbon dioxide and hydrogen

Samira van den Bogaard | RWTH Aachen University | Germany

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16:03

P 28: Validation of Numerical Simulations of Stirred Tank Bioreactors using pH Indicator Mixing Experiments

Lauri Hoffmann | Hochschule Trier – Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Birkenfeld | Germany

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16:06

P 30: From Grass Pressing to Fermentation: Scale-Up of a Grass-Based Biorefinery

Wolfgang Laudensack | RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau | Germany

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16:09

P 31: An aerosol-based bioprocess concept for triterpenoid production in various basil cell cultures

Maximilian Koch | RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau | Germany

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16:12

P 32: High-throughput screening approach for media development enabling high-cell-density rhamnolipid production

Marie K. Lipa | RWTH Aaachen University - Angewandte Mikrobiologie | Germany

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16:15

P 33: Image-Based Quantification of Beggiatoa sp. Filament Morphology Enables Early Bioprocess Development

Ronja Weidemann | TU Dortmund | Germany

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16:18

P 34: Holistic Bioprocess Development by Integrated Downstream Processing Using Disc-Stack Centrifuges

Sarah Straaten | GEA Group | Germany

16:30

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Integrated Up- & Downstream Processing & Novel Reactor Concepts

Chair(s) Prof. Dr. Alexander Grünberger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Room: E 1 - 3

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Form of presentation: Lecture

Duration: 60 Minutes

16:30

From Concept to Product: Advancing Lysostaphin Production in Corynebacterium glutamicum using Automated Workflows and Model-based Screening

Lisa Prigolovkin | Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH | Germany

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17:00

Scaling Down to Innovate: Additive Manufacturing for Integrated Microfluidics and Biosensors in Biotechnology

Prof. Dr. Janina Bahnemann | Universität Augsburg | Germany

17:30

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General Meeting of the Working Party

Room : E 1 - 3

Duration : 30 Minutes

18:00

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Poster Party (Part 1)

Room : E 1 - 3

Duration : 150 Minutes