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| After the ALAMY_6 Introduction Programme Committee Topics and Sessions Confirmed Invited Speakers Selected Oral Talks Poster board size Important dates Final programme Sponsors Registration and Abstracts Fees and Payments Conference buses Internet Weather forecast -------  A brand new journal "Amylase" | Selected Oral
talks The
following 20 Oral Talks have been selected from
the Abstracts
submitted for Oral Talks. Confirmed Oral
talks:  Birte
Svensson (Department
of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical
University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark): An update on
structural biology of starch-degrading enzymes and their regulation  Lubbert
Dijkhuizen (Microbial Physiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sceinces and
Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The
netherlands): Characterization of the starch-acting MaAmyB enzyme
from Microbacterium aurum
B8.A representing the novel subfamily GH13_XX
with an enlarged catalytic region and an unusual, multidomain
organization  Narayanan
Ramasubbu (Department
of Oral Biology, Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, Newark, NJ, USA): Special friendship between oral
streptococci and alpha-amylase in the oral cavity  James
H.
Geiger (Department of Chemistry, Michigan State
University, East
Lansing, MI, USA): The mechanism of branch chain
specificity in the plant branching enzyme I and II isoforms  Nicole M.
Koropatkin (Department
of Microbiology & Immunology, University
of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA): Host
intestinal glucoamylase inhibition and its effect on the gut microbial
community  Atsuo
Kimura  Leila
Lo Leggio (Department of Chemistry, University of
Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark): Structural studies on the AA13 family
of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases  Tjaard
Pijning (Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology
Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The
Netherlands): Crystal structure of a
4,6-alpha-glucanotransferase supports a diet-driven evolution of GH70
enzymes from alpha-amylases in oral bacteria  Darrell
Cockburn (Department
of Microbiology & Immunology, University
of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA): The amylolytic
systems of Eubacterium rectale and Ruminococcus
bromii rely on uniquely
adapted enzymes  Nushin
Aghajari (Molecular
Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, CNRS-University of
Lyon1, Lyon, France): News from
structure/function relationships studies on Rhizobium
sp. GH13 enzymes  Matthew S.
Gentry (Department of Molecular and Cellular
Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA): Reversible phosphorylation of glucans
requires unique carbohydrate binding platforms  Maher
Abou
Hachem (Department
of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical
University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark): Evidence for
an important role of lytic polysaccharide mono-oxygenases in the
degradation of
starch by Aspergillus nidulans  Adeline
Wychowski (Université Lille 1, Villeneuve
d'Ascq, France): Functional and structural
characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana
branching enzymes  Takashi Tonozuka (Department
of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and
Technology, Tokyo, Japan): Arthrobacter globiformis GH27 isomalto-dextranase
and Flavobacterium johnsoniae GH31
dextranase/glucosyltransferase – two dextran-hydrolyzing enzymes
belonging to
clan GH-D  Yoshinobu
Terada (Institute
of Health Sciencies, Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan): The design
of a slowly digestible glucan by the combinatorial use of amylomaltase
and
branching enzyme  Floor
Kooy (DuPont Industrial Biosciences, Leiden, The Netherlands): Random hydrolysis improves
sustainability in starch processing  Sibyl
F.D. Batey (Department
of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research
Park, Norwich, UK):  Deciphering the details of a novel
alpha-glucan synthesis pathway in Mycobacterium
tuberculosis  Fean
D.
Sarian (Institut
Teknologi
Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia & Aquatic Biotechnology and Bioproducts Engineering,
University of Groningen, Groningen, The
Netherlands): Identification of a novel alpha-amylase from marine Bacillus
megaterium
Nl3 representing a new GH13 subfamily  Marion
Claverie (Université
de Toulouse, CNRS, INRA, INSA, Toulouse, France): Biochemical and structural
characterization of a new GH70 enzyme from Leuconostoc
citreum NRRL B-1299  Il-Nam
Oh (Department of Food Science and Technology, Chungnam
National University,
Daejeon, Korea): Characteristics
of a carbohydrate binding module 20 from hyperthermophilic bacterium |