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- Chair Prof Maria Reis

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- Engineering-Chair Prof. Auxi Prieto

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- Chair Prof João Sousa

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 I – Chair Prof Anders Daugaard

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-  Chair Prof Manfred Zinn

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. Dr Joao Sousa, Head of Emerging technologies, Paques Biomaterials, Netherlands

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

09:50  Biopolymers: From Development to Market to Post-Consumer
Laura Dell’Abate, Bioprocess R&D Group Leader, Novamont, Novara, Iraly

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  Commercialization of innovative biopolymers
Rick Passenier, Co-Founder and Board Member GO!PHA, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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 – Chair Prof Ramesh Babu Padamati

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
Prof Anders Daugaard, 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- Chair Biorbic

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. Anders Daamgard, Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark

12:30  Biodegradation and non biodegradation- 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