** This event has been cancelled. Please contact Le Studium for more information. **

Natural products (NP) are molecules produced and used by living organisms for defending or adapting purposes. Many NP are very toxic compounds with pharmacological activity that can be of therapeutic benefit in treating human diseases, like cancer. As such, NP are the active components of numerous traditional medicines, and more than 60% of currently prescribed drugs are nowadays either directly derived from or inspired by NP, while more than 25% of them are still directly extracted from plants. Additionally, NP sources are often unreliable to access and supply, vary in composition due to sourcing season or environment, and are susceptible to rising extinction rates, climate change and geopolitical conflicts issues. Therefore, it is urgent to identify and develop alternative biological systems for the sustainable bio-production of NPs. This interdisciplinary conference will analyze the current challenges around this theme, and aim to bring together all the cutting edge tools of metabolic engineering, necessary to build the next generation of microbial cell factories.

This international conference is organised in the framework of the ARD 2020 BIOPHARMACEUTICALS Programme.

Keywords

Traditional medicine; plant secondary metabolites; yeast metabolic engineering; microbial cell factories ; genome editing ; bio-reactor.

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION

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PRICING

(Including two lunches, a Wine & Cheese cocktail and the coffee breaks)