The 4th Digital Congress of the European Society of Applied Biocatalysis (ESAB)
4th Digital Congress of the European Society of Applied Biocatalysis (ESAB)
The European Society of Applied Biocatalysis (ESAB) is organizing the 4th Digital Congress of the European Society of Applied Biocatalysis (ESAB) hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) on November 23-25, 2026.
This online event will offer a unique opportunity to present your research to a global audience and engage with leading experts in the field of biocatalysis.
Registration and abstract submission
If you will pay by bak transfer, please contact the ESAB treasurer:
Elisabeth Jacobsen: elisabeth.e.jacobsen@ntnu.no, who will send an invoice.
Upon registration, we will contact you with details on how you can access the event.
Abstract submission deadline for oral presentations: October 5, 2026.
Please download the abstract template from the link and submit your word file abstract by e-mail to:
Elisabeth Jacobsen: elisabeth.e.jacobsen@ntnu.no. Please indicate if the abstract is for a poster or an oral presentation. A confirmation e-mail will be sent immediately.
Acceptance of abstracts will be noticed before October 10. In order to be included in the programme the registration fee has to be paid.
Poster abstracts can be sent until November 1, 2026. Acceptance of abstracts will be noticed before November 12, which is the deadline for payment (in order to be included in the programme).
Plenary Lecturers
Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb Department of Biochemistry & Synthetic Metabolism, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
Title: Synthetic Biology meets AI: Engineering New Biocatalytic Strategies for CO2 Conversions
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Prof. Dr. Anthony Green Department of Chemistry & Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Click for abstract and bio: Building Enzymes with New Function
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Prof. Dr. Martin Hayes AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Dr. Carlos Martinez Pfizer Worldwide, R&D, Groton, USA
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Prof. Dr. Yang Yang University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Click for abstract and bio: New Strategies for Stereoselective Radical Biocatalysis
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Prof. Dr. Sarah Lovelock Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Prof. Dr. Huimin Zhao University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, IL, USA
Click for abstract and bio: Expanding the Boundary of Biocatalysis: From Directed Evolution to Autonomous Experimentation
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Prof. Dr. Michael Christopher Jewett Stanford Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA
Click for abstract and bio: Synthetic Biology for People and Planet Health
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kroutil The Elk Group, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Click for abstract and bio: Expanding The Toolbox For C-H Oxidation, Amine Formation And C-C Bond Formation
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Prof. Dr. Xiaoguang Lei College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, P. R. China
Title: Transformative Amide Synthesis Enabled by Biocatalysis
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Prof. Dr. Pimchai Chaiyen School of Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand
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Dr. Michael Breuer Department of White Biotechnology Research – Biocatalysis, BASF SE, RGR/DB, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
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Prof. Dr. Blake A. Simmons, Joint BioEnergy Inistute, Emeryville California, USA and Lawrence Berkeley National Library, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Click for abstract and bio: Flying the Future: Advances Aviation Fuels at the Joint BioEnergy Inistitute (JBEI)
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Keynote Lecturers
Prof. Dr. Margit Winkler ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Wädenswil, Switzerland
Title: Featuring Aldehydes and Ketones in Chemoenzymatic Heterocycle Synthesis
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Prof. Dr. Silvia Osuna ICREA & Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Title: Coevolution and Correlation-mediated Allosteric Networks for Enzyme Design
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Prof. Dr. Francesco Mutti, Van´t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, HIMS-Biocat, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title: Alcohol Dehydrogenases as Acyl-Forming Biocatalysts: Oxidative Coupling to Amides and Thioesters and Overoxidation to Carboxylic Acids
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Prof. Dr. Markus Jeschek, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Prof. Dr. Kenichi Matsuda, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Prof. Dr. Francesca Paradisi, Departement für Chemie, Biochemie und Pharmazie, University of Bern.
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Topics
Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering
Biocatalysis and Functional Genomics
Advances in the Analysis of Enzymatic Reactions
Novel Enzymes
Enzyme Engineering
Experimental Tools and Methodologies for Screening Enzyme Functions
Biocatalyst Development and Production
Enzymatic Reaction Mechanisms
Electro- and Photobiocatalysis
Biocatalysis for Green and Sustainable Processes
Biocatalytic Process Engineering and Intensification
Scaling Biocatalytic Processes from mg to tons
Flow Biocatalysis
Industrial Biocatalysis
Biomanufacturing
Biocatalysis Education
Bioeconomy
Biocatalysis and Molecular Medicine
Biocatalysis in Drug Discovery & Development
Sustainable Enzymatic Synthesis of RNA
Biocatalysis meets Informatics
Use of new AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques in biocatalysis
e Chemistry
Biocatalysis in Non-Conventional Media
Multistep Enzyme Catalyzed Processes
Biocatalytic Total Synthesis
Other
Sponsoring opportunities
500 EURO: Company logo on conference web site.
1 000 EURO: Company logo on conference web site and advertisement of materials, products or services during conference breaks.
A limited number of short 5 minute presentations will be available on a first served basis. Please contact us if you wish to discuss other options or questions in this regard.
Payment by bank transfer.
Please contact ESAB Treasurer: elisabeth.e.jacobsen@ntnu.no
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