27-28 April 2021, 9:30-14:30 BST
Hosted by The Carbon Recycling Network (BBSRC-NIBB), this FREE, two-day ONLINE conference brought together academic and industrial partners to identify and address key challenges in this area of Carbon Recycling. The programme included talks from invited speakers from academia and industry, as well as from selected submitted abstracts.
Invited Speakers:
- Byung-Kwan Cho, KAIST-Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Craig Woods, Deep Branch
- Doris Hafenbradl, Electrochaea
- Pauline Ruiz & Pia Skoczinski, nova-Institute
- Arren Bar-Even Memorial Prize Lecture awarded to Nico Claassens, Wageningen University
Download programme here.
DAY 1: TUESDAY 27 APRIL 2021All times are BST | ||
| 09:25-09:30 | JOINING TIME | |
| SESSION 1 | CHAIR: Nigel Minton, The Carbon Recycling Network, UK | |
| 09:30-09:35 | Nigel Minton The Carbon Recycling Network, UK | Welcome & Opening Words |
| 09:35-10:05 | Pauline Ruiz & Pia Skoczinski nova Institute, Germany | INVITED TALK: CO2 as a Renewable Carbon Feedstock for Chemicals, Fuels and Polymers |
| 10:05-10:30 | Sheena Hindocha The Knowledge Transfer Network, UK | Accelerating Net Zero Chemical Manufacturing |
| 10:35-11:00 | Fraser Brown Ingenza Ltd, UK | Improving Sustainability in Biobased Manufacturing |
| 11:00-11:15 Break | ||
| SESSION 2 | CHAIR: Tithira Wimalasena, Corbion, The Netherlands | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Craig Woods Deep Branch, UK | INVITED TALK: Hydrogen oxidising bacteria as an animal feed material
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| 11:45-12.10 | Christian Klask University of Tübingen, Germany | Interrogating the Autotrophy in Clostridium ljungdahlii by Manipulation of RNF complex-associated Genes |
| 12.10-12.35 | Stefan Pflügl Technische Universität Wien, Austria | Blending industrial blast furnace gas with H2 enables Acetobacterium woodii to efficiently co-utilize CO, CO2 and H2 |
| 12:35-13:05 Lunch break | ||
| SESSION 3 | CHAIR: Sean Simpson, LanzaTech, USA | |
| 13:05-13:10 | Sean Simpson, LanzaTech, USA | Welcome back and introduction to Arren Bar-Even Memorial Prize Lecture |
| 13:10-13:40 | Arren Bar-Even Memorial Prize Lecture: Nico Claassens Wageningen University, The Netherlands | INVITED TALK: Current status and future of the Reductive Glycine Pathway for the one-carbon world
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| 13:40-14:05 | Esteban Marcellin The University of Queensland, Australia | The rhythm of the gas |
| 14:05-14:30 | Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski Leiden University, The Netherlands | Engineering carbon-neutral photorespiration in Synechococcus elongatus by implementing the beta-hydroxyaspartate cycle |
| 14:30-14:35 | Nigel Minton The Carbon Recycling Network, UK | Final words for Day 1 |
| 14:35 Close of Day 1 | ||
| DAY 2: WEDNESDAY 28 APRIL 2021 All times are BST | ||
| 09:25-09:30 | JOINING TIME | |
| SESSION 4 | CHAIR: Reuben Carr, Ingenza Ltd, UK | |
| 09:30-09:35 | Reuben Carr, Ingenza Ltd, UK | Welcome & Introduction to Day 2 |
| 09:35-10:05 | Byung-Kwan Cho KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | INVITED TALK: Systems Biology of Acetogenic Bacteria for Sustainable Bioproduction from C1 Feedstocks
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| 10:05-10:30 | Maximilian Flaiz Ulm University, Germany | Light up Acetogens: Acetone Production with Fluorescent Eubacterium limosum Strains Cultivated using the C1-Carbon Source Methanol |
| 10:35-11:00 | Kaspar Valgepea University of Tartu, Estonia | Absolute proteome quantification in the gas-fermenting acetogen Clostridium autoethanogenum |
| 11:00-11:15 Break | ||
| SESSION 5 | CHAIR: Sonia Heaven, University of Southampton & Director EBnet, UK | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Doris Hafenbradl Electrochaea, Germany | INVITED TALK: Ancient Archaea Microorganisms recycle CO2 and produce renewable methane in large scale |
| 11:45-12.10 | Eileen Yu Loughborough University, UK | Strategies for increasing multi-carbon bio-products from CO2 by Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) |
| 12.10-12.35 | Ken Omersa Omnagen Ltd, UK | A Self-Powered CO2 Converter |
| 12:35-12:45 | Nigel Minton The Carbon Recycling Network, UK | Closing Words |