PROGRAM

15:00  Registration

16:00  Opening Speech-

Prof Kevin O’Connor, Professor Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,   UCD

Prof Tanja Narancic, Assistant Professor at School of Biomolecular and   Biomedical Science, UCD

Prof Kate Robson Brown, VPRII, Vice President of Research, Innovation &   Impact, UCD

Plenary Talks – 

16:30  Coupling Biotechnology and Materials Science for PHA  Circularity
Prof M.. Auxiliadora Prieto Jiménez, Research Professor, CIB, CSIC, Madrid,   Spain

17:15  Catalyzed Chemical Synthesis of PHAs for Scalability,   Productivity, Tunability, and Recyclability
Prof Eugene Chen, Millennial Professor of Polymer Science & Sustainability,   Colorado State University, USA

18:00  Poster Session

19:00  Wine Reception

Novel Feedstocks

09:00  Untethering and debunking sticking points for scaling up PHA production in wastewater treatment
Dr Alan Werker, Research Theme Leader, Wetsus,, Netherlands

09:40  Bridging The Gap Between Biopolymer Science And Applications: Own Experiences
Prof. Manfred Zinn, Head of the Research Group Biotechnology and Sustainable Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences , HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland.

10:00  Engineering PHA from Waste Lipids: High-Cell-Density Cultivations and In-Line PAT
Prof Sebastian Riedel, Berliner Hochschule Für Technik (BHT), Berlin, Germany

10:20  Presentation 1- Selected from submitted abstracts

10:40   Presentation 2- Selected from submitted abstracts

10:55   Presentation 3- Selected from submitted abstracts

11:10  COFFEE BREAK

Metabolic Engineering

11:30  In Vivo Biopolymer Engineering: A New Frontier in Polysaccharide Design
Prof Jochen Schmid, Full Professor of Microbiology at the University of Münster, Germany,.

11:50  Engineering for Biosynthesis of Diverse PHAs from Carbon Dioxide
Prof Takeharu Tsuge, Dr. of Agriculture, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan

12:10  Biosynthesis of Artificial Polyhydroxyalkanoates -Mechanisms and Applications- Prof Ken'ichiro Matsumoto Professor of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan

12:30  Presentation 4- Selected from submitted abstracts

12:45  Presentation 5- Selected from submitted abstracts

13:00  LUNCH

Downstream Processing

14:00  Biological Recovery of PHA from Biomass Using Mealworms: Scale Up Challenges and Opportunities
Prof.  Dr. K Sudesh Kumar, School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Malaysia.

14:20  Integrated Scale-Up Strategies and Downstream Processing Innovations for Sustainable PHA Biomanufacturing
Prof. Maciek Guzik, Head of Bioprocess Development Laboratory, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland

14:40  Presentation 6- Selected from submitted abstracts

14:55   Presentation 7- Selected from submitted abstracts

15:10   Presentation 8- Selected from submitted abstracts

15:25  COFFEE BREAK

Applications of Biopolymers I

15:50  Protein Meets Biopolymer: Engineering Advanced Materials
Prof.  Bernd Rehm, Director, Centre for Cell Factories and Biopolymers, Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics, Griffith University, Australia

16:10  Natural and Sustainable Polymers of Bacterial Origin and their Biomedical Applications
Professor Ipsita Roy, Professor of Biomaterials, School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sheffield

16:30  Microbial polymer hydrogels as platforms for advanced technological uses. Prof. Filomena Freitas, Assistant Professor, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University, Researcher, BIOENG, Research Unit on Applied Molecular Biosciences – UCIBIO, Lisbon, Portugal

16:45   Presentation 9- Selected from submitted abstracts

17:00   Presentation 10- Selected from submitted abstracts

17:15  Wine Reception with Poster Session

18:30  END OF DAY

Biopolymers at Scale

08:30  Scale Up of PHA Production using Halomonas
Prof George Guo-Qiang Chen, Professor of Microbiology and Biomaterials, Tsinghua University, China

09:10  On the road towards industrial PHBV production from residual streams
Joao Sousa, Head of Emerging technologies, Paques Biomaterials, Netherlands

09:30  PLA Synthesis, Application & Recycling
Kees Joziasse, Total Energies Corbion

09:50  Starch based Biopolymers from Development to Market to post consumer
NOVAMONT

10:10  Scaling-up the TORWASH system for chemical recycling of bio-degradable plastic
Jan Pels, Senior Scientist in Biomass Utilization | co-founder of TORWASH | waste-to-fuel | plastics recycling, TORWASH, Delft University of Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

10:30  COFFEE

11:00  Polymers to  Market
To Be Announced

Conference Outing

12:45  PACKED LUNCH

13:15  Bus departs to Newgrange/Fourknocks

14:15  Arrival at Newgrange/Fourknocks

16:00  Departure from Newgrange to UCD

17:30  Arrival at UCD

19:00  Symposium Dinner and 

Ceili- Courtesy of Twist of Irish

Awards-

Lifetime Award

Bernard Witholt

Biotechnology Award

 Applications of  Polymers II

09:00  High Functionality and Marine Biodegradation of Biodegradable Polyesters and Polysaccharide Derivatives
Prof Tadahisa Iwata, The University of Tokyo, Japan

09:30  Byproducts and Waste Materials used for Biopolymer Composites
Professor in Polymer Chemistry at the Danish Polymer Centre (DPC), Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

10:10  Circular Design with Microbial Biopolymers: Turning Plastic Waste into Adhesives and Environmental Additives
Prof. Jasmina Nikodinovic-Runic, Principal Research Fellow , Group for Eco-Biotechnology & Drug Development,, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering;, University of Belgrade, Serbia

10:30  Presentation 11- Selected from submitted abstracts

10:45   Presentation 12- Selected from submitted abstract

11:00  COFFEE  

Social and Environmental

Social and Environmental

11:30  Impact of Plastic Pollution- microplastics
Prof Junli Xu,, Associate Professor at the School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, BIORBIC, UCD

12:00  From Lab to Life Cycle Assessment: Assessing Future Sustainability of Novel Biopolymers
Prof. Anders Daamgard, Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark

12:30  Biodegradation and non biodegradation- Prof. Dieter Jendrosek, Professor of Microbiology and Biochemistry at the University of Stuttgart, Germany

13:00  Prizes and Announcement of Next ISBP 2028

13:30  MEETING CLOSE