List of speakers and titles of their talks (in progress)

  • Altan Erarslan (Kocaeli University, Turkey)
    An alkaline protease from a novel obligate alkaliphilic strain Bacillus marmarensis GMBE 72T
  • Anastasios Melis (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
    Photosynthetic biofuels
  • Arnold Demain  (Drew University, USA) [Plenary speaker]
    Contributions of microorganisms (and microbiologists) to the energy problem
  • Betül Kırdar (Bosphorus University, Turkey)
    Systems biology as a driver of biotechnology
  • Celal Gökçay (METU, Turkey)                                                                                Highlights of Some of the Biotechnological Work Undertaken at METU Environmental Engineering Department 
  • Cumhur Çökmüş (Ankara University, Turkey)
    Screening of thermophilic Bacilli isolated from hot springs in Turkey for Alpha-Glucosidase production and characterization of enzymes
  • Dörte Becher (Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany)
    Targeting the entire proteome of gram positive bacteria - possibilities and limitations of modern proteomics
  • Donald Cowan (University of the Western Cape Bellville, South Africa)
    Metagenomics: From Microbial Diversity to Gene Discovery
  • Gülay Özcengiz (METU, Turkey)                                                                                            Immunoproteomics for Designing Novel Whooping Cough Vaccines
  • Hüseyin Avni Öktem (METU, Turkey)                                                                                Nanobiosensors
  • Jose Adrio ( Neuron BP, Spain)
    Production of lipids (single cell oils) from crude glycerine, the major subproduct of the biodiesel industry
  • Kürşad Turgay (Freie University, Germany)
    General and regulatory proteolysis in     Bacillus subtilis
  • Mahinur Akkaya (METU, Turkey)                                                                                      Mediated Gene Silencing in Plants for Functional Analysis
  • Nermin Gözükırmızı (İstanbul University, Turkey)
    Biotechnological research on native Hordeum vulgare L. cvs. 
  • Nesrin Hasirci  (METU, Turkey)                                                                                             Importance of Chemistry for Cell Adhesion 
  • Paloma Liras (University of Leon, Spain)
    Carbon sources utilization by     Streptomyces clavuligerus: the enigmatic lack of glucose utilization
  • Petek Çakar  (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
    Metabolic and evolutionary engineering of stress resistance in yeast
  • Peter Biely (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
    Microbial Xylanolytic Enzymes: Production, Properties and Applications 
  • Peter Neubauer (Technical U. Berlin, Germany)
    RNA-based Sandwich Hybridisation for Diagnostics of Food Contaminants and Bioprocess Dynamics
  • Pınar Çalık  (METU, Turkey)                                                                                                Determination of Intracellular Reaction Rates for Recombinant Protein Reaction 
  • Şebnem Harsa (İzmir Inst.Technology, Turkey)
    Functional Food Ingredients for Gut Health
  • Tolga Can (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
    Discovering the modular organization of genome-scale biological networks
  • Tuncer H. Özdamar (Ankara University, Turkey)
    Analysis and engineering of     Bacillus subtilis reactions for pathway flux amplification
  • Uğur Sezerman (Sabancı University, Turkey)
    Biomarker Discovery and Detection:A Microarray Based Optical Sensor for Multiple Cardivascular Risk Factors Analysis
  • Vasif Hasirci  (METU, Turkey)                                                                                      Biodegredable Polymers in Tissue Engineering 
  • Yair Aharonowitz (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
    B12-sensing riboswitches control DNA and methionine biosynthesis in Streptomyces