European Summer School on Industrial Biotechnology
In 2023, the 5th ESSIB will be hosted by the University of Hamburg with the focus on "Functional metagenomics: from nature to biochemical functions"
The European Summer School on Industrial Biotechnology (ESSIB) has been started as an annual advanced training course for PhD students and postdocs, preferably (but not exclusively) from European countries with research projects in the fields of biotechnology, biochemistry, molecular biology, biochemical engineering, and bioinformatics. ESSIB brings together students from different fields of life sciences and introduces them into the field of industrial biotechnology. Lectures and practical courses present the current challenges in biotech industry, up-to-date methods, and strategies, and discuss about the scientific perspectives of industrial biotechnology and its contribution to sustainable growth. Thus, ESSIB is a complete educational program based on lectures, practical laboratory experience, and contacts with companies active in the field.
Download the ESSIB 2023 programme here
The ESSIB is organized by two academic partners, currently the University of Milano-Bicocca and the University of Stuttgart. Each year, the summer school will be hosted by a different partner of the consortium and will have a different focus. The first ESSIB 2014 was organized by the University of Milano-Bicocca, with the focus on "Stability, folding and misfolding of recombinant proteins". The ESSIB 2015 was organized by the University of Stuttgart, with the title "Design of Biocatalysts: Concepts, Methods, and Applications". The ESSIB 2016 was organized by the Autonomous University of Barcelona with the title "Bioprocess design and optimisation for the production of recombinant proteins - Concepts, tools, methods and current challenges". The ESSIB 2017 was organized by the Wageningen University with the title "Food and Biorefinery Enzymology".