Joint IP-day
IPs “Controlling Chemicals’ Fate” &
“Sustainable Biotechnology and Bioeconomy”
KUBUS – November 5, 2019
Shaping the IP Research of the Future
Programme
8:30 Welcome & Introduction
Lecture Hall 1A
Bruno Bühler & Lukas Wick
9:00
Spotlights Lecture Hall 1A
Alkyl-coenzyme M: At the crossroads of alkane oxidation and production Florin Musat, ISOBIO
TerrestrialMetagenomeDB: a public repository of curated and standardized metadata for terrestrial metagenomes
Felipe Borim Corrêa, UMB
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: Investigation of a large-scale environmental contamination and new treatment concepts for contaminated water
Anett Georgi, TUCHEM & Urs Berger, ANA
Perspectives of green infrastructures for resource efficient drainage systems Ganbaatar Khurelbaatar, UBZ
Spotlight on the energy harvest of electroactive microorganisms: The impact of the applied anode potential
Benjamin Korth, UMB
10:00 Coffee Break Foyer
10:30 Project Idea Pitches Lecture Hall 1A
Paving the way for a sustainable use of chemicals Ivonne Nijenhuis, ISOBIO
Evaluating proxies for pesticide degradation from large scale environmental observatory data
Lukas Wick, UMB
Application of multi-element stable isotope analysis from molecular to global scales
Steffen Kümmel, ISOBIO
Green H2 - production, capture, and storage Katja Bühler, SOMA
Designing artificial microbial mats in microreactors: applications and opportunities Rohan Karande, SOMA
Joint IP-day
IPs “Controlling Chemicals’ Fate” &
“Sustainable Biotechnology and Bioeconomy”
KUBUS – November 5, 2019
Biodegradation of organic micropollutants in carbon-rich anaerobic processes Heike Sträuber, UMB
Effect of carbonaceous pyrogenic materials on the functions of constructed wetlands
Andrii Butkovskyi, UBT
Controlling the fate of poly- and perfluorinated compounds in the environment – PFAS
Katrin Mackenzie, TUCHEM
Solving the novel scientific challenges associated with persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT) substances in the aquatic environment
Urs Berger, ANA
Microfluidic single-cell analysis for biotechnology: From monitoring towards understanding
Christian Dusny, SOMA
Microbial systems data science: Potential large scale collaborations João Pedro Saraiva, UMB
M³: modeling microbial metabolism Florian Centler, UMB
Assessment of biogeochemical effects upon underground energy storage Hans-Herrmann Richnow, ISOBIO
11:45 Feedback & Open Discussion of Project Ideas Lecture Hall 1B
12:45 Lunch Foyer
13:30 STROMER & FATE – Our PhD Colleges Lecture Hall 1A
Powering up the PhD college STROMER Falk Harnisch, UMB
PhD college FATE: Investigating the fate and effects of antibiotics from sources to sinks Niculina Musat, ISOBIO & Anja Worrich, UMB
14:30 Poster Pitches Lecture Hall 1A
Spatial profiles of perfluoroalkyl substances and mercury in fish from Lake Victoria, East Africa
Kenneth Arinaitwe, ANA
Biogeochemical effects of temperature changes on microbial communities and groundwater contaminations
Mohammad Sufian Bin Hudari, ISOBIO
Joint IP-day
IPs “Controlling Chemicals’ Fate” &
“Sustainable Biotechnology and Bioeconomy”
KUBUS – November 5, 2019
Overcoming oxygen limitations in productive Pseudomonas taiwanensis VLB120 biofilms
Ingeborg Heuschkel, SOMA
Influence of spatio-temporal heterogeneities on microbial redox dynamics and nutrient cycling
Swamini Khurana, UMB
Determination and occurrence of tire and road wear particles in road environment Philipp Klöckner, ANA/HDG
Characterizing the fate of HCHs in soil and plant systems - implications for food web studies
Xiao Liu, ISOBIO
Design and development of hydrogen producing cyanobacterial strains Sara Lupacchini, SOMA
Factors affecting pesticide degradation in different soil models Mahsa Namini, UBT
Effect of temperature, pH and organic carbon variations on microbial turnover of glyphosate in German and Colombian soil
Karolina Nowak, UBT
Reduction of halogenated pollutants in water: comparison of available reagents and catalysts
Ali Shee, TUCHEM
Mapping in vivo mycosphere pH characteristics at micrometer scale Bijing Xiong, UMB
