February 17 February 2025 - Online

11u00-13u00: Online introduction to get to know the lecturers, other participants and practicalities of the BIP. The expectations for the literature review will be explained during this session.

Monday 17 March 2025 - Stadscampus

  • 9:00-9:15 - Welcome with coffee 
  • 9:15-9:30 - Opening session 
  • 9:30-11:00 - Ms Kristel Sniegowski, KU Leuven (BE), on ‘Basic molecular techniques to identify wild yeast isolates and the search for POF genes' 
  • 11:00-11:15 - Break 
  • 11:15-12:45 - Ms Vesna Jerkovic/Charlotte Saussez/Aurélie Semoulin, HELHa (BE), on ‘Bacterial transformation: theoretical and practical aspects'
  • 12:45-13:45 - Lunch break  
  • 13:45-15:00 - Ms Paulien Leemans, UAntwerp (BE) – ‘Gene regulation in prokaryotes’
  • 15:00-15:15 - Break 
  • 15:15 -15:45- Ms Iris Cornet, UAntwerp (BE)– ‘Industrial Biotechology'
  • 15:45-16:30 - Mr Boris Gilis, UAntwerp (BE) - 'Transforming Waste Oil into High-Value Biochemicals for a Sustainable Future'
  • 16:30-17:30 - Break 
  • 17:30-19:00 - Guided city tour Antwerp 
  • 19:00-21:00 - Welcome’s drink @Stadscampus

Tuesday 18 March 2025 - Campus Groenenborger

  • 8:30-12:30:
    • Workshop I - Ms Julia Weiss, UPCT (ES), on ‘Binary plasmid isolation and analysis‘- laboratory 
    • Workshop II - Ms Kristel Sniegowski, KU Leuven (BE), on ‘Detecting POF genes in yeast isolates with PCR and gel electrophoresis‘- laboratory 
    • Workshop III – Mr Boris Gilis & Mr Jordi Geerts, University of Antwerp, on ‘Fueling the future: 2nd generation bioethanol’ part 1: reactor-set up 
  • 12:30-14:00 - Lunch break 
  • 14:00-18:00:      
    • Workshop I - Ms Vesna Jerkovic/Charlotte Saussez/Aurélie Semoulin, HELHa (BE) on ‘Bacterial transformation‘- laboratory 
    • Workshop IIa (14:00-16:00) - Ms Kristel Sniegowski, KU Leuven (BE), on ’ Evaluating the quality of a Sanger sequence, database search with sequences for identifying Fungi’ - informatic lab 
    • Workshop IIb (16:00 - 18:00) - Aneta Tarczewska & Dominika Bystranowska, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (PL), on 'Size matters: SEC and PAGE basics for protein separation'
    • Workshop III - M Rita Pacheco -  ‘Inhibition of Acetylcholinesterase activity- Dose- Response relationships‘ – laboratory 

Wednesday 19 March 2025 - Stadscampus

  • 9:00-10:30 - Rita Pacheco, ISEL (PT) – “Small molecule drugs- Design and Drug Discovery“ 
  • 10:30-11:30 - Aneta Tarczewska & Dominika Bystranowska, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (PL) - "Ordered vs. disordered, which protein conformation is more omnipotent?"
  • 11:30-11:45 - Break 
  • 11:45 -13:15 - Mr Vuk Savković, Hochschule Merseburg (DE), on ‘Directed evolution and rational design as powerful tools in protein engineering’  
  • 13:15-14:00 - Lunch break  
  • 16:00-17:30 - Company visit: Antwerp Brewing Company  

Thursday 20 March 2025 - Campus Groenenborger

  • 8:30-12:30
    • Workshop I - Marcos Egea Gutiérrez-Cortines UPCT (ES), on ‘Usage of publicly available tools: sequence data bases and construct design for CRISP/Cas’  – informatic lab 
    • Workshop II - Ms Paulien Leemans/Iris Cornet, UAntwerp on ‘Investigation of heat shock effects on the gene expression in E. coli – Part 1: RNA extraction (RNA integrity and purity) and reversed transcription‘– laboratory 
    • Workshop III – Mr Boris Gilis&Jordi Geerts, University of Antwerp, on ‘Fueling the future: 2nd generation bioethanol’ part 2: analysis 
  • 12:30-14:00 - Lunch break 
  • 14:00-18:00 
    • Workshop I – Mr Boris Gilis&Jordi Geerts, University of Antwerp, on ‘Fueling the future: 2nd generation bioethanol’ part 2: analysis'
    • Workshop II - Ms Paulien Leemans/Iris Cornet, UAntwerp on ‘Investigation of heat shock effects on the gene expression in E. coli – Part 2: Bioinformatical analysis of RT-qPCR data.'
    • Workshop III - Mr Vuk Savković , Hochschule Merseburg (DE), on‘Searching for the most efficient enzyme variant (known so far) for a particular biochemical transformation’ 

Friday 21 March 2025 - Stadscampus

  • 9:00 -10:30 - Ms Julia Weiss, UPCT (ES), on ‘Plant genetic engineering‘ 
  • 10:30-11:15 - Ms Iris Cornet, UAntwerp (BE), on ‘Process optimization in Industrial biotechnology using recombinant microorganisms.  
  • 11:15-11:30 - Break 
  • 11:30-13:00 - Mr Marcos Egea Gutiérrez-Cortines and Ms Julia Weiss, UPCT (ES), on  ‘Molecular pharming strategies‘ (TBD) 
  • 13:00-14:00 - Break 
  • 14:00 - Prepare your lab report