Symposium
International Rhodobacter Symposium 2025
The second international Rhodobacter Symposium follows after a successful first edition. We would like to again bring together the scientific community working with the intriguing purple bacteria such as Rhodobacter (Cereibacter) sphaeroides. This edition is organized with support of the EU Cost Action PurpleGain. It will be an informal symposium centered around different topics related to their physiology and applications in biotechnology.
Preliminary programme
The symposium will only have plenary sessions that go into various important aspects of purple bacterial applications and physiology. The scientific committee has invited several outstanding speakers (see below). Information about the programme will follow as soon as it becomes available.
The symposium will focus on the following topics:
- Purple bacteria biotechnology
- Genetic tools
- Microbial physiology
The symposium is now opened for abstract submission. You can use this abstract format to prepare your contribution. Please submit your abstracts to ruud.weusthuis@wur.nl before April 15, 2025. The scientific committee will select oral and poster presentations. A limited number of speakers will be eligible for financial compensation by PurpleGain.
Registration
Registration for this symposium is free of charge; however, we request contributions for lunch and dinner. You can select these options during your registration.
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Speakers
| Name | University | Presentation title |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. Timothy J. Donohue | Ira L. Baldwin and UW Foundation Fetzer-Bascom Professor of Bacteriology University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA | Biological jewels derived from mining Rhodobacter species |
| Dr. Andrew Hitchcock | Royal Society University Research Fellow School of Biosciences University of Sheffield, UK | Regulation of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in Rhodobacter sphaeroides: controlling metabolic flux at the heme/bacteriochlorophyll branchpoint |
| Prof. Gao-Yi Tan Ph.D | State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering School of Biotechnology East China University of Science and Technology, China | Efficient Bioproduction of Heme and Porphyrin Compounds Enabled by CRISPR/Cas Technology |
| Prof. Dr. Raul Muñoz | Institute of Sustainable Processeses University of Valladolid, Spain | The potential of mixed purple bacteria cultures in resource recovery from livestock wastewaters |
| Prof. Arpita Bose | Department of Biology Washington University in St. Louis, USA | Beyond the electric side of photosynthesis in purple non sulfur bacteria |
| Johannes G Rebelein | Microbial metalloenzymes, Max Planck institute for terrestrial microbiology, Marburg, Germany | Nitrogenase Activities in Rhodobacter capsulatus |
Scientific committee
We are happy to announce we have been able to select a strong Scientific committee:
- Tim Donohue, University of Wisconsin
- Neil Hunter, University of Sheffield
- Matthew McIntosh, Justus Liebig University
- Elena Melilo, Isobionics
- Katarina Cankar, Wageningen University and Research
- Jules Beekwilder, Isobionics
- Ioanna Vasiliadou, University of Western Macedonia
- Baptiste Leroy, University of Mons
- Daniel Melchor Puyol Santos, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Joana Fradinho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Organising committee
- Ruud Weusthuis, Wageningen University & Research
- Aurin Vos, Wageningen University & Research
- Miranda Berger, Wageningen University & Research
- Jules Beekwilder, Isobionics
Sponsors
This Symposium is sponsored by Isobionics and BASF.