Program

Registration

Registration for participants arriving on Day 1

Opening Ceremony

Opening Ceremony

Session 1: Strain Engineering for Sustainable Bioeconomy Applications

Objective : Improving yeast strains for advanced biosynthetic pathways, optimizing by product and waste assimilation, and fostering sustainable production.

• 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM : Plenary Lecture by Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, Imperial College London, UK 🇬🇧

Title : Engineering biology in yeast cells and communities for a sustainable bioeconomy

• 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM : Oral presentations
• 2:30 PM – Florence Bordes (Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, France 🇫🇷): Easy and efficient tools for multiple gene integrations and deletions in the yeast Y. lipolytica
• 2:50 PM – Marta López-Rubio (University of Salamanca, Spain 🇪🇸): Production of vitamin B2 in Ashbya gossypii through precision fermentation
• 3:10 PM – Ewelina Celinska (Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland 🇵🇱): Towards a sustainable source of proteins from Yarrowia lipolytica
• 3:30 PM – Brigitte Gasser (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU, Austria 🇦🇹): Flo8 – A versatile regulator improving sustainable recombinant protein production in Komagataella phaffii
• 3:50 PM - 4:15 PM : Coffee break & Poster session
• 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM : Oral presentations
• 4:15 PM – Gennaro Agrimi (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy 🇮🇹): Biocatalytic depolymerization and upcycling of plastics using engineered Yarrowia lipolytica
• 4:35 PM – Inge Van Bogaert (Ghent University, Belgium 🇧🇪): Turning non-pathogenic yeasts into powerful long-chain dicarboxylic acid production hosts
• 4:55 PM – Putu Virgina Partha Devanthi (Constructor University, Germany 🇩🇪): Can the re-introduction of a functional GUT1 allele (GUT1JL1) improve succinic acid production from glycerol in S. cerevisiae?
• 5:15 PM – Hulya Karaca Atsaros (Anadolu University, Turkey 🇹🇷): Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for enhanced taxadiene production
• 5:35 PM – Markus M. M. Bisschops (Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands 🇳🇱): General stress response & growth-uncoupled production: saving energy and increasing expression
• 5:55 PM – Bojan Žunar (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Croatia 🇭🇷): Engineering Debaryomyces hansenii for hypersaline surface display

Session Topics:

• Metabolic engineering for optimized byproduct and waste utilization
• Cloning pathways for de novo molecule synthesis in yeast
• Enzyme optimization for biosynthetic efficiency
• Yeast strain development and adaptation for industrial bioeconomy applications

Registration

Registration for participants arriving on Day 2

Session 2: Fermentation Technology and Bio-Based Compounds Production

Objective: Leveraging byproducts and waste in yeast fermentation to produce highvalue, sustainable compounds.

• 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM : Plenary Lecture by Andreas K. Gombert, University of Campinas, Brazil 🇧🇷

Title : Microbial ecology and (meta)genomics for a better understanding and improvement of bioethanol production from sugarcane

• 8:45 AM - 10:05 AM : Oral presentations
• 8:45 AM – Volkmar Passoth (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden 🇸🇪): Oleaginous Rhodotorula spp. for biochemicals, food and a safe environment
• 9:05 AM – Boris Gilis (University of Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪): Waste valorisation: A biochemical approach to long-chain dicarboxylic acid production
• 9:25 AM – Camille Botcazon (ATV Technologies, France 🇫🇷): KOSMETOIL project: developing fermented natural oils for the cosmetic field
• 9:45 AM – Nabila Imatoukene (URD ABI, AgroParisTech, France 🇫🇷): Development of a tailored culture medium for improved de novo biosynthesis of ferulic acid in fed-batch biphasic fermentation with Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• 10:05 AM - 10:35 AM : Coffee break & Poster session
• 10:35 AM - 12:35 PM : Oral presentations
• 10:35 AM – Octavio García Depraect (University of Valladolid, Spain 🇪🇸): Acidogenic fermentation as a platform for the sustainable production of organic acids for yeast applications
• 10:55 AM – Iris Cornet (University of Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪): Rhodosporidium kratochvilovae, a promising yeast for the conversion of lignocellulosic inhibitors into microbial oil
• 11:15 AM – Tomás Zubak (IMDEA Energy Institute, Spain 🇪🇸): Yarrowia lipolytica as a robust cell factory for the valorisation of high-salinity effluents via the carboxylate platform: case of microbial oil production
• 11:35 AM – José L. Martínez (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 🇩🇰): Evidencing the capability of Debaryomyces hansenii for the use of VFAs from organic digestates as feedstock for bioproduction
• 11:55 AM – Emmanuel Omachoko Anthony (AgroParisTech, France 🇫🇷): Valorisation of acetic acid-rich forced endive root juice to produce volatile aroma compounds using Kluyveromyces marxianus
• 12:15 PM – Christian Kennes (University of La Coruña, Spain 🇪🇸): Sustainable co-production of lipids and carotenoids by Rhodosporidium toruloides using carbon dioxide and acetate as alternative carbon sources

Session Topics:

• Valorization of industrial byproducts and wastes in fermentation
• Optimization of fermentation parameters for valuable compound production
• Development of co-cultures for enhanced fermentation efficiency
• Fermentation scaling and yield improvement techniques

Lunch Break

Lunch Break

Session 3: Pre-treatment, Downstream Processing, Bioreactor Design, and Process Scale-Up

Objective : Exploring advanced techniques in pre-treatment, extraction, purification, bioreactor design, and scalability for bio-based production.

• 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM : Plenary Lecture by Elodie Vlaeminck, Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP), Belgium 🇧🇪

Title : Scaling yeast fermentation and downstream processing: Sustainable production of triacylglycerols with Y. lipolytica

• 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM : Oral presentations
• 2:45 PM – Nicola Di Fidio (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy 🇮🇹): Cardoon and wheat straw biorefinery for the production of lactic acid, oil and β-carotene by integrated thermo-physical and biotechnological approaches
• 3:05 PM – Sarah Mahfoud (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France 🇫🇷): Yeast for the future of food and feed: downstream processing for alternative protein recovery
• 3:25 PM – Margarita Smirnova (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway 🇳🇴): Valorization of lignocellulose side-streams containing HMF and furfural into oils for industrial use via oleaginous yeasts
• 3:45 PM – Elise Viau (Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, France 🇫🇷): Exploring innovative bioprocess routes for ethyl acetate production by K. marxianus using lignocellulosic hydrolysate
• 4:05 PM - 4:30 PM : Coffee break & Poster session
• 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM : Oral presentations
• 4:30 PM – Alejandro Berzosa (University of Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸): Cascade extraction of bioactive compounds from yeast biomass using pulsed electric fields
• 4:50 PM – Dana Byrtusova (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway 🇳🇴): Fed-batch optimization and scale-up of Rhodotorula and Schizochytrium sp. for bio-based epoxy coatings
• 5:10 PM – Oleksii Parniakov (Elea Technology GmbH, Germany 🇩🇪): Influence of pulsed electric fields with other procedures on extraction from brewer’s spent yeast cells
• 5:30 PM – Juan Manuel Martínez (University of Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸): PEF-assisted extraction of carotenoids: Yield enhancement through autolysis and green solvents
• 5:50 PM – Mickaël Villeneuve (Verrerie Dumas, France 🇫🇷): Automated bioreactor for process optimization: The BLEW® solution
• 6:10 PM – Mohamed Koubaa (TIMR, ESCOM/UTC, France 🇫🇷): Sustainable scale-up production of odd-chain fatty acids by Y. lipolytica

Session Topics:

• Advanced pre-treatment, extraction, and separation techniques for yeast bio-based compounds
• Bioreactor design, optimization, monitoring, and control in yeast-based production
• Scale-up strategies for industrial yeast fermentation

Gala Dinner (optional)

Gala Dinner (optional)

Registration

Registration for participants attending only Day 3

Session 4: Techno-Economic Analysis, Life Cycle Assessment, and Industrialization

Objective : Evaluating the environmental impact, financial viability, and promoting process industrialization.

• 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM : Plenary Lecture by Patrick Carré, Terres Inovia, France 🇫🇷

Title : Techno-economic analysis of microbial oil production: a case study on odd-chain fatty acids

• 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM : Oral presentations
• 9:15 AM – Ana-Karen Sanchez-Castaneda (AgroParisTech, France 🇫🇷): Fermentative production of 2-phenylethanol by yeasts using agro-industrial wastes: a techno-economic and environmental assessment
• 9:35 AM – Marco Vitale (IMDEA Energy Institute, Spain 🇪🇸): Toward frameworks for performance evaluation of (yeast-based) sustainable aviation fuel production: gaps and opportunities in science for policy
• 9:55 AM – Isabella Pisano (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy 🇮🇹): Cascading biorefinery of cheese whey permeate: integrated bioethanol and biomethane production through lab-scale validation and techno-economic process modeling
• 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM : Coffee break & Poster session
• 10:45 AM - 11:45 PM : Oral presentations
• 10:45 AM – Fernanda Thimoteo Azevedo Jorge (Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant, Belgium 🇧🇪): Sustainable lactic acid fermentation at low pH using second generation feedstocks: a techno-economic assessment
• 11:05 AM – Paola Branduardi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy 🇮🇹): Production and carbon footprint of microbial oil from waste lemon peel extract
• 11:25 AM – Jean-Marc Nicaud (INRAE, Micalis Institute, France 🇫🇷): The yeast Yarrowia lipolytica, workhorse chassis for industrial applications

Session Topics:

• Life cycle assessment for bio-based processes and products
• Minimizing environmental impact in bio-based production
• Techno-economic analysis of sustainable fermentation processes
• Production process industrialization and market integration

Closing ceremony and awards

Closing Ceremony and awards

• Presentation of awards
• Announcement of the YBC 2027 location

Lunch break

Lunch break

Visit to ATV biotechnology platform

Optional visit to ATV Biotechnology platform