esEPG5 Programme
Some speakers have kindly provided their presentations which are available for download as PDF.
Monday 31st March 2008
Opening of Symposium & Welcome by Prof David White (Director of IFR)
Chair: Craig Faulds & Nathalie Juge (IFR)
| Alphons Voragen (Wageningen University, NL) "Could it be enzymes?”  |
Session 1: Cereal breeding, quality and protein profiles
Chair: Alison Smith (JIC) & Christophe Courtin (KUL)
| Sam Millar (Campden & Chorleywood,
UK) “Targeting wheat quality attributes in plant breeding” |
Sylviane Comparot (JIC,
Norwich, UK) |
| Christine Finnie (DTU, Denmark) “Intracellular, secreted and membrane proteomes of barley” |
| Peter Koehler (DFA, Germany) “Degradation of storage proteins in different cereals by peptidases induced by germination” |
| Birte Svensson (DTU,
Denmark) “Barley thioredoxins, thioredoxin reductases and quantitative disulphide proteomics involving cereal target proteins” |
Session 2: EU Project dissemination forum
Chair: Roger Fenwick (IFR)
| Pekka Lehtinen (VTT, Finland) “Exploiting bioactivity of European cereal grains for improved nutrition and health benefits (Healthgrain)” |
| Keith Waldron (IFR, UK) “Reducing food processing waste (REPRO)” |
| Johanna Buchert (VTT, Finland) “Control and exploitation of enzymes for added-value food products (COST 928)” |
| Kristiina Kruus (VTT, Finland) “Targeted discovery of novel cellulases and hemicellulases and their reacton mechanisms for hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass (DISCO)” |
Session 3: Tools to elucidate plant structure
Chair: Birte Svensson (DTU) & Henk Schols (Wageningen University)
| Rob Field (JIC, UK) “Dissecting carbohydrate metabolism with microarrays and small molecule inhibitors” |
| Luc Saulnier (INRA, France) “Wheat endosperm cell walls: exploration of the spatial heterogeneity of polysaccharide structure and composition using micro-scale enzymatic fingerprinting” |
| Sandra Hinz (Dyadic Nederland BV, The
Netherlands) "Highly efficient hemicellulase production in the fungal host Chrysosporium lucknowense C1" |
| Imen Boukari (INRA Reims, France) “Influence of lignin-carbohydrate interactions on enzymatic conversion of xylan: use of lignin-carbohydrates model systems” |
Tuesday 1st April 2008
Session 4: Enzyme structure-function relationships
Chair: Nathalie Juge (IFR) & Luc Saulnier (INRA)
| Harry Gilbert (Newcastle, UK) “The use of carbohydrate binding modules in the targeting of enzymes to the plant cell wall" |
| Jean-Guy Berrin (Univ Paul Cézanne, Marseille, France) “Development and improvement of xylanases for the degradation of cereal arabinoxylan” |
| Annick Pollet (KU Leuven, Belgium) “The secondary surface binding site of family 11 Bacillus subtilis xylanase is a key determinant for substrate selectivity” |
| Ellen Fierens (KU Leuven, Belgium) “TLXI, the thaumatin-like xylanase inhibitor from wheat: structural basis for its interaction with xylanases and its stability” |
| Maija Tenkanen (University of Helsinki,
Finland) “Enzymatic tailoring of cereal arabinoxylans” |
Session 4: Enzyme structure-function relationshipsChair:
Johanna Buchert (VTT) & Craig Faulds (IFR) |
| Stuart West (Biocatalysts Ltd, UK) “Feruloyl esterases: potential in grain processing” |
| Peter Biely (Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava, Slovakia) “Novel family of carbohydrate esterases involved in plant cell wall degradation: glucuronyl esterases” |
| Laurice Pouvreau (Wageningen University, Netherlands) “De-esterification mechanisms of xylo-oligosaccharides using new tools” |
| Marc van der Maarel (TNO-Univ Groningen, Netherlands) “The amylase enzyme network of the fungus Aspergillus niger” |
| Jan Delcour (KU Leuven, Belgium) “Amylolytic enzymes and bread firming” |
Session 5: Application of enzymes in grain processing (baking and brewing)
Chair: Christophe Courtin (KU Leuven) & Peter Koehler (DFA)
| Henrik Lundqvist (Novozymes, Denmark) “Use of lipases in baking” |
| Lutz Popper (SternEnzym GmbH, Germany) “Sulfhydryl oxidase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae” |
| Inge Celus (KU Leuven, Belgium) “Fractionation and characterisation of protein hydrolysates produced by enzymatic hydrolysis of brewers’ spent grain” |
| Jim Robertson (Institute of Food Research, UK) “The potential to release feruloylated oligosaccharides from brewers’ spent grain through selective enzyme digestion” |
| Charlie Bamforth (University of California, Davis, USA) “Current perspectives on the role of enzymes in brewing” |
Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Session 6: Application of enzymes in cereal-based industry (Bioenergy)
Chair: Luc Saulnier (INRA) & Alison Smith (JIC)
| Colin Mitchinson (Danisco-Genencor, USA) “Development of improved enzymes for the biorefinery” |
| Mirjam Kabel (Royal Nedalco, The Netherlands) "Enzymatic hydrolysis of arabinoxylan from corn kernels for enhanced production of bioethanol" |
| Anne S. Meyer (Technical University of
Denmark, Denmark) “The minimal enzyme cocktail concept for biomass processing” |
| Vijay Singh (University of Illinois, USA) “Use of proteases to replace SO2 in maize wet milling process” |
Session 7: Application of enzymes in cereal-based industry (Functional food ingredients)
Chair: Jens Sorensen (Danisco) & Birte Svensson (DTU)
| Robert Rastall (University of Reading, UK) “Processing grains to deliver health-promoting activities” |
| Shukun Yu (Danisco-Genencor, Denmark) “Enzymatic conversion of starch to calorie-free sugar, antioxidants and antimicrobials by the Anhydrofructose Technology” |
| Stefano Renzetti (University College Cork, Ireland) “Oxidising and proteolytic enzymes in gluten-free batters and breads” |
| Christophe Courtin (KU Leuven, Belgium) “Xylanase technology allows the production of AXOS enriched breads with prebiotic potential” |
