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FUNDED BY:
The German-Ukrainian Core of Excellence in Natural Products Research (CENtR) invites:
of specialties related to the school's topics to join the Summer School 2026. Participation is free (Funded by the BMFTR).
When? August 9-16, 2026
Where? Lviv and the Carpathians
An 8-day program combining theory and practice: an intensive theoretical course and active communication in a picturesque location in the Carpathians, including lectures by leading international and Ukrainian scientists in the biology of natural compounds and their producers followed by a practical course in the biotechnology laboratory of Explogen LLC in Lviv.
This year, the School has a special significance, as it is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Department of Genetics and Biotechnology of the Faculty of Biology of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
10:00-11:00. Dr. Nataliia Machushynets
(Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Classes of Bacterial Natural Products and Their Biosynthetic Logic
11:00-12:00. Dr. Kai Blin
(Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Introduction to the antiSMASH Ecosystem
12:00-13:00. Dr. Stefan Böttcher
(Saarland University, Germany)
Structure Elucidation of Natural Compounds by the Use of Modern Spectroscopical Methods
10:00-11:00. Prof. Dr. Andriy Luzhetskyy
(Saarland University, Germany)
Natural products - Quo vadis
11:00-12:00. Prof. Dr. Justyna Ruchała
(University of Rzeszow, Poland)
Hidden Yeasts in Extreme Environments: How to Discover New Cell Factories
12:00-12:45. Dr. Anna Kachor & Andriy Zatushevskyy
(CENtR, Ukraine)
Actinobacteria: from biology to case studies
12:45-13:15. Yana Nohach
(CENtR, Ukraine)
Vector system for Saccharopolyspora erythraea
14:15-15:00. Prof. Dr. Peter Leadlay
(University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Evolution and Revolution in Natural Product Biosynthesis
15:00-16:00. Dr. Taras Peretyatko
(Ivan Franko Lviv National University; National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ukraine)
Antarctic microorganisms and their biotechnological potential, field and laboratory research
16:00-17:00. Dr. Rebecca Casson
(John Innes Centre, United Kingdom)
Nature's Chemists: The Plant Medicine Toolbox
10:00-11:00. Prof. Dr. Hajo Kries
(University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Biosynthetic Engineering of Nonribosomal Peptides
11:00-12:00. Dr. Jennifer Herrmann
(HIPS, Germany)
Antibiotic development: from compound to pre-clinical studies
12:00-12:45. Dr. Bohdan Tokovenko
(BASF, Germany)
The Academic and Industrial Science
Participants
Dr. Bohdan Tokovenko
BASF, Germany
Dr. Oksana Bilyk
Recircle, UK
Viktoriia Vonsovych
University of Bonn, Germany
Moderator
Nadiia Lekhniuk
CENtR, Ukraine