Full CSIC Professor
Instituto de Catálisis y PetroleoquĂmica, ICP, CSIC, Spain
Miguel Alcalde is CSIC Research Professor and founder of EvoEnzyme S.L. (https://evoenzyme.com), a spin-off stemming from his research group.
The central research of Dr. Miguel Alcalde primarily focusses on the engineering of enzymes by directed evolution for a wide range of biotechnological purposes as well as synthetic biology studies for environmental, energy and industrial applications (https://miguelalcaldelab.eu).
Dr. Alcalde is a biologist by training, with postdoctoral stay at CALTECH in the group of Frances Arnold (Nobel laurate in Chemistry 2018). Coauthor of over 100 articles on enzyme engineering and applied biocatalysis and 14 filled patents, Prof. Alcalde has supervised 35 research projects and 12 PhD Thesis. He was working as a manager of National Research Agency of Spain in the area of biotechnology, (2019-2021) and was in charge of coordinating the section of molecular biotechnology and synthetic biology of SEBBM (Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2017-2020). He is current board member of the Biocatalysis division of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB).
Opening Keynote: The Golden Age of Directed Evolution of Enzymes
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
10:30 – 11:30 CET