Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy – Resources, Utilization, Engineering and AgroEcosystems - Fall meeting Topic 7

28 Oct 2024, 16:00 → 30 Oct 2024, 12:30 Europe/Berlin

Lecture hall CL (Building 04.7, Room 201) (Jülich)

Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy – Resources, Utilization, Engineering and AgroEcosystems: Fall meeting Topic 7

Welcome to our third on-site fall meeting “Towards a sustainable Bioeconomy”, on 28.-30. October 2024 in Jülich.

The goals of our Fall Meeting are

• to present and discuss inspiring science from the three subtopics of Topic 7,
• to get to know the research and the colleagues of the different participating centers
• to stimulate Topic 7 internal exchange on research and products from Program-oriented Funding (PoF), and
• to develop collaborations within the Topic 7.

The program

To achieve the goals, entertaining and inspiring presentations, discussions and poster sessions are being prepared with a focus on scientific discussions and exchange. You find the program HERE.

Who is invited?

We cordially invite scientists and PhD students working within Topic 7 to the onsite event at the Central Library in Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Registration

Registration will be open until September, 30 on this website.    
Please register as soon as possible.

Hotel contigents

Accomodation needs to be booked individually. HERE you find a list with hotels nearby.

Interactive FZJ map: HERE

Bus shuttle for external guests:

28. October: Jülich à  conference venue

·        04:20 p.m. Jülich Gut Alte Burg

·        04:35 p.m. bus stop Walramplatz (Hexenturm and Stadthotel)

·        04:40 p.m. Hotel Royal Jülich (Dürener Str. 37 a-c)

28. October: conference venue à  hotels

·        09:00 p.m. Zentralbibliothek

29. October: Jülich à  conference venue

·        07:40 a.m. Jülich Gut Alte Burg

·        07:55 a.m. bus stop Walramplatz (Hexenturm and Stadthotel)

·        08:00 a.m. Hotel Royal Jülich (Dürener Str. 37 a-c)

29. October: conference venue à  hotels

·        10:00 p.m. Zentralbibliothek

30 October 2024: hotels à conference venue

·        08:10 a.m. Jülich Gut Alte Burg

·        08:25 a.m. bus stop Walramplatz (Hexenturm and Stadthotel)

·        08:30 a.m. Hotel Royal Jülich (Dürener Str. 37 a-c)

Bus Train Taxi Plan.pdf

List_of_hotels.pdf

map.pdf

Program.pdf

Monday 28 October

16:00 → 17:00 Arrival and Registration

17:00 → 17:10 Welcome to FZJ

Speaker: Prof. Peter Jansens (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

17:10 → 17:40 Welcome and Introduction to Program and Topic 7

Speaker: Prof. Michael Bott (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-1))

17:40 → 18:20 Biomass Research at Helmholtz Energy - Contributions to Closing the Anthropogenic Carbon Cycle

Plenary talk

Speaker: Prof. Jörg Sauer (KIT)

18:20 → 20:30 Poster session with snacks and drinks

vegetarian and vegan food only

19:00 → 20:00 PowerPoint karaoke (optional)

PowerPoint karaoke is an entertaining game or improvisation exercise where participants must give a 2-5 minute presentation without knowing the content of the slides in advance. The slides are randomly selected. Each participant must prepare slides for such a presentation beforehand.

Tuesday 29 October

08:30 → 08:45 Introduction of the day

Speaker: Prof. Michael Bott (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-1))

08:45 → 09:45 Session 1

Convener: Prof. Michael Bott (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-1))

08:45 Phage Biotechnology: Development of sustainable biocontrol strategies

Speaker: Prof. Julia Frunzke (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-1))

09:05 Do we obtain valid data from climate change incubations using soils of today?

Speaker: Prof. Marie Muehe (UFZ)

09:25 Molecular bioinformatics: Transforming data for understanding and prediction

Speaker: Prof. Holger Gohlke (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-4))

09:45 → 10:00 Coffee Break

vegetarian and vegan food only

10:00 → 11:00 Session 2

Convener: Prof. Andreas Schmid (UFZ)

10:00 Cross-scale planning tools for the implementation of urban water infrastructures

Speaker: Dr Jan Friesen (UFZ)

10:20 TUNING MULTI-ENZYME CATALYSED PROCESSES – modular set-up and integration with microbial and chemical transformations

Speaker: Prof. Dörthe Rother (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-1))

10:40 Biophotovoltaics for white hydrogen production

Speaker: Dr Bin Lai (UFZ)

11:00 → 12:20 Session 3

Convener: Prof. Nicolas Brüggemann (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-3))

11:00 Holistic lignocellulose valorisation concepts - addressing feedstock recalcitrance and diversity

Speaker: Dr Holger Klose (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2))

11:20 Mechanisms of nitrogen retention by carbon management in the post-harvest period

Speaker: Dr Rüdiger Reichel (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-3))

11:40 Unexpected Potentials in Marine Bioeconomy: Bio-inspired Lightweight Design

Speaker: Dr Christian Hamm (AWI)

12:00 Harnessing Cloud Computing for Advanced Metagenomic Analysis

Speaker: Prof. Alexander Sczyrba (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-5))

12:20 → 12:30 Group photo

In participating in the group photo, you are providing your consent for the publication of images taken of you during the event.

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch Break

vegetarian and vegan food only

13:45 → 14:45 Breakout Session

Meeting point Foyer CL (Building 04.07, Room 200A) 15 minutes in advance.

13:45 AI in Sustainable Life-Science Processes

Speaker: Prof. Holger Gohlke (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-4))

13:45 Research Connect: Connecting Scientists for Future Partnerships

Meeting point for people interested in scientific collaborations, including the SynCom information booth.

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee break

vegetarian and vegan food only

15:15 → 17:00 Internal Topic 7 Board Meeting

Topic Board members only

15:15 → 17:00 Lab/ Field tours

Participation in the Lab tours is reserved for external participants.
Meeting point Foyer CL (Building 04.07, Room 200A) 15 minutes in advance.

15:15 AGRASIM

AGRASIM is a new research facility of six terrestrial ecosystem mesocosms, which allow experimental simulation of the effect of present and future environmental conditions on, amongst others, agricultural plant performance, water and greenhouse gas fluxes, and carbon and nutrient dynamics in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum.

Speaker: Prof. Nicolas Brüggemann (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-3))

15:15 AgriPV - Marginal Field Labs

At the tour on our Agri PV site we will present different types of Agri-Horti-Photovoltaic systems, wherein the harvest of solar induced electricity and biomass from plants under solar panels can be performed. We will show how plant growth can be studied under the solar roofs with high-tech fully automated robotic systems. It helps us and the farmers of our region to learn, how to effectively combine farmland and regenerative energy production on the same piece of land.

Speakers: Dr Matthias Meier (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2)), Dr Onno Muller (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2))

15:15 AutoBioTech - Automation of biotechnology

The tour at IBG-1 will present the new technology platform AutoBioTech for automation and digitalization of microbial strain and bioprocess development. Protocols for automated cloning, transformation and identification of recombinant clones are established to speed up strain development and exploit the catalytic power of microbes for biotechnology and bioeconomy.

Speaker: Dr Julia Tenhaef (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-1))

15:15 Phenotyping - tomography to high throughput

In our tour we will present the plant MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) installation, allowing to measure dynamics in structural and functional traits of plants. In particular, the method yields information on 3D root traits grown in natural field soils. Further we will visit the GrowScreen-Rhizo 3 installation which allows simultaneous phenotyping of root and shoot growth of crops grown in up to 900 soil-filled rhizotrons.

Speakers: Dr Kerstin Nagel (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2)), Dr Robert Koller (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2))

16:00 AutoBioTech - Automation of biotechnology

The tour at IBG-1 will present the new technology platform AutoBioTech for automation and digitalization of microbial strain and bioprocess development. Protocols for automated cloning, transformation and identification of recombinant clones are established to speed up strain development and exploit the catalytic power of microbes for biotechnology and bioeconomy.

Speaker: Dr Julia Tenhaef (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-1))

16:00 Phenotyping - tomography to high throughput

In our tour we will present the plant MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) installation, allowing to measure dynamics in structural and functional traits of plants. In particular, the method yields information on 3D root traits grown in natural field soils. Further we will visit the GrowScreen-Rhizo 3 installation which allows simultaneous phenotyping of root and shoot growth of crops grown in up to 900 soil-filled rhizotrons.

Speakers: Dr Kerstin Nagel (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2)), Dr Robert Koller (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2))

16:05 AgriPV - Marginal Field Labs

At the tour on our Agri PV site we will present different types of Agri-Horti-Photovoltaic systems, wherein the harvest of solar induced electricity and biomass from plants under solar panels can be performed. We will show how plant growth can be studied under the solar roofs with high-tech fully automated robotic systems. It helps us and the farmers of our region to learn, how to effectively combine farmland and regenerative energy production on the same piece of land.

Speakers: Dr Matthias Meier (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2)), Dr Onno Muller (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2))

16:10 AGRASIM

AGRASIM is a new research facility of six terrestrial ecosystem mesocosms, which allow experimental simulation of the effect of present and future environmental conditions on, amongst others, agricultural plant performance, water and greenhouse gas fluxes, and carbon and nutrient dynamics in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum.

Speakers: Adrian Haupenthal, Prof. Nicolas Brüggemann (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-3))

17:00 → 19:00 Postersession

19:00 → 21:30 Conference dinner

vegetarian and vegan food only

Wednesday 30 October

08:45 → 10:15 PhD presentations

Convener: Prof. Ulrich Schurr (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2))

08:45 Bio-upcycling of polyesters with engineered Pseudomonas taiwanensis

Speaker: Leonie Op de Hipt (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-1))

09:00 Deep Learning based SIF retrieval from hyperspectral imagery

Speaker: Jim Buffat (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2))

09:15 In Silico Analysis of Plant- and Soil Microbes-Mediated Carbon Stabilization For Different Weather Scenarios

Speaker: Mona Giraud (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-3))

09:30 Spatial Transcriptomics and Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis of Barley Meristem to Elucidate Mechanisms of Crop Development

Speaker: Hannah Doerpholz (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-4))

09:45 Utilization of a regulatory protein to redirect electron flux into hydrogen in cyanobacteria

Speaker: Marvin-Amadeus Itzenhäuser (UFZ)

10:00 Design and validation of reactive urban percolation systems for efficient pollutant biotransformation

Speaker: Xiangyu Ji (UFZ)

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee break

vegetarian and vegan food only

10:45 → 11:30 PhD presentations

Convener: Prof. Harry Vereecken (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-3))

10:45 Climate change impacts on metal accumulation in crops

Speaker: Aleksandra Pienkowska (UFZ)

11:00 Sustainable diets for shrimp aquaculture utilizing local by-products

Speaker: Enno Fricke (AWI)

11:15 "Basses Richesses” Disease Induces Heterogenic Allocation of Carbon in Growing Sugar Beet

Speaker: Kwabena Agyei (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-2))

11:30 → 11:45 Closing remarks

Speaker: Prof. Michael Bott (Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-1))