MecP 2026

PROGRAMME

Politecnico di Milano – Milan, Italy

March 29th – April 1st 2026

SUNDAY 29/03/2026

14.00-16.00

Registration

SESSION 1

16.00-16.15	WELCOME ADDRESS AND INTRODUCTION
16.15-17.00	KEYNOTE LECTURE 1 Process solutions for multi-step biocatalytic cascades John Woodley
17.00-19.00	WELCOME RECEPTION

MONDAY 30/03/2026

SESSION 2

9.00-9.50	INVITED LECTURE 1 Intensification of chemo-enzymatic processes towards industrial volumetric productivities Selin Kara
9.50-10.10	ORAL PRESENTATION 1 Multi step cascades catalyzed by a single enzyme Wolfgang Kroutil
10.10-10.30	ORAL PRESENTATION 2 Production of biobased monomers for polyesters and polyamides using (chemo)enzymatic cascades Volker Sieber
10.30-11.00	COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 3

11.00-11.20	ORAL PRESENTATION 3 Immobilization for cascade biocatalysis James Weltz
11.20-11.40	ORAL PRESENTATION 4 100 years of enzyme immobilization, what’s next? Rob Schoevaart
11.40-12.00	ORAL PRESENTATION 5 Engineering alcohol dehydrogenase for enhanced cofactor recycling James L. Galman
12.00-12.20	ORAL PRESENTATION 6 Enzymatic synthesis of human milk fat substitute and other high value triglycerides by immobilized lipases: role of enzyme carriers and regulatory implications Alessandra Basso
12.30-13.30	LUNCH BREAK
13.30-15.00	POSTER SESSION

SESSION 4

15.00-15.50	INVITED LECTURE 2 Multi-enzyme cascades for the asymmetric synthesis of cyclic amines Joerg Schrittwieser
15.50-16.10	ORAL PRESENTATION 7 Biocatalytic four-step cascade turning phenols into tyramines Isabella E. E. Kroschel
16.10-16.40	COFFEE BREAK
16.40-17.00	ORAL PRESENTATION 8 Sustainable phosphate-catalyzed synthesis of non-symmetric pyrazines in water – Mechanistic insights, biocatalytic applications and industrial potential Jorge González-Rodríguez
17.00-17.20	ORAL PRESENTATION 9 Valorisation of sinapine-rich side streams: an enzyme cascade for the synthesis of biobased hydroxystyrenes Daniel Kracher

TUESDAY 31/03/2026

SESSION 5

9.00-9.50	INVITED LECTURE 3 Biocatalytic cascades in continuous flow Sebastian Cosgrove
9.50-10.10	ORAL PRESENTATION 10 Flowing green: intensified multi-step biocatalysis enabled by enzyme immobilization and advanced reactor technology Martina L. Contente
10.10-10.30	ORAL PRESENTATION 11 Reductive amination-based multi-enzyme approach for the synthesis of D-phenylalanines Krisztina Boros
10.30-11.00	COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 6

11.00-11.20	ORAL PRESENTATION 12 ATP-dependent multi-enzymatic cascade for sustainable amide bond formation Žiga Gerdina
11.20-11.40	ORAL PRESENTATION 13 Design and development of photobiocatalytic methods for the stereoselective synthesis of chiral alcohols Laura Rodríguez-Fernández
11.40-12.00	ORAL PRESENTATION 14 The enzymatic chameleon: rethinking alcohol dehydrogenases for the synthesis of amides and thioesters Matteo Damian
12.00-12.20	ORAL PRESENTATION 15 From C1 molecules to ethyl formate: a sustainable concatenated catalytic process Nina Klos

SESSION 7

Orario	Evento
12.20-12.50	FLASH PRESENTATIONS (6x 5 min) Engineered phototrophic mixed-species biofilms for continuous production of polycaprolactone precursors from cyclohexanol in multi-stage drip-flow reactors – Mahir Bozan Continuous δ-viniferin synthesis in a microreactor using magnetite-immobilized combined cross-linked enzyme nanoaggregates – Marko Božinović Photobiocatalytic deracemization of 3-hydroxypropanonitriles: advances in asymmetric synthesis – Sara Filgueira Selective oxyfunctionalization of aromatic hydrocarbons by recombinant CYP153A – Acetobacter malorum – Sara Foiadelli Engineered enzymatic cascades: overcoming challenges in P450 monooxygenase biocatalysis – Carolin Mügge From a transcriptomic approach towards a multi-step biodegradation process of polyethylene by Rhodococcus opacus R7 laccase and oxygenase enzymes – Jessica Zampolli
13.00-14.00	LUNCH BREAK
14.00-15.00	POSTER SESSION
15.00-19.00	FREE AFTERNOON / CITY TOUR
19.00-21.00	SOCIAL DINNER

WEDNESDAY 1/04/2026

SESSION 8

9.00-9.20	ORAL PRESENTATION 16 Scale-up of multi-step fungal glycosylation of chlorinated chalcones and integrated by-product valorization Agnieszka Krawczyk-Łebek
9.20-9.40	ORAL PRESENTATION 17 Developing fluorescence-based coupled enzyme cascade to screen NAD(P)H-dependent oxidoreductases Trisha Ghosh
9.40-10.00	ORAL PRESENTATION 18 Heterotrophic and phototrophic multistep biocatalysis for the production of nylon building blocks from renewables Lyn K. Möhrlin
10.00-10.30	COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 9

10.30-10.50	ORAL PRESENTATION 19 ThDP-dependent enzyme for multi-step biocatalytic synthesis Francesco Presini
10.50-11.10	ORAL PRESENTATION 20 CalA engineering: selectivity improvement, mechanistic insights, and unexpected applications Daniela Quaglia
11.10-12.00	KEYNOTE LECTURE 2 Multi-step enzymatic processes – Selecting, coupling and completing multiple reaction steps Roland Wohlgemuth
12.00-12.20	CLOSING REMARKS AND CONFERENCE PHOTO
12.30-13.30	LUNCH BREAK