4th IP Retreat TapNature

Wednesday 22 Oct 2025, 08:00 → 21:30 Europe/Berlin

Leipziger KUBUS

Bruno Bühler, Lukas Wick

08:00 → 08:30 Check-In

08:30 → 08:45 Intro welcome

Speakers: Bruno Bühler, Lukas Wick

08:45 → 10:15 EBB: PP presentation / guest speaker talk

Talk by
Rohan Karande or
René Backes

Convener: René Backes

08:45 EBB – Introduction and Highlights of the PP

Speakers: Benjamin Korth, Heike Sträuber

08:55 Modeling and Optimization of Ferricyanide Bio-Reduction in a Capillary Reactor – Biophotovoltaic System

Speaker: Susmit Chakraborty

09:15 Powering P. putida - On a Path towards Understanding Anodic Electro-Fermentation

Speaker: Laura Pause

09:35 Nature-Inspired Concepts for Developing Microbial Processes

Guest speaker Dr. Rohan Karande (University of Leipzig)

Speaker: Rohan Karande

09:55 Raw Material Change – Replacing Fossil Carbon with Renewable Alternatives

Guest speaker Dr. René Backes (DBFZ)

Speaker: René Backes

10:15 → 10:30 Coffee break

Free table talks

10:30 → 12:00 City Tech: CityTech - Science and future of PP

Dr. Anett Richter

Convener: Anett Richter

10:30 CityTech - Science and future of PP

Speaker: Ariette Schierz

10:35 Municipal Heat Action Planning and the importance of Blue-Green Infrastructure

Speaker: Anett Richter

11:00 Introduction of the NEXOGENESIS project

Speaker: Sabina Khan

11:10 Grey Goes Green: Towards local urban water cycles by treating greywater with green roofs

Speaker: Sarya Derado

11:20 KONATES - Thermal energy storage in contaminated aquifers

Speakers: Anett Georgi, Carsten Voigt

11:40 Solution Lab URBAN LE

Speaker: Roland Müller

12:00 → 12:45 Lunch break and poster session

12:45 → 14:15 MYSUN: From modeling photosynthetic metabolism to biocatalytic applications

Prof. Dr. Ralf Steuer

Convener: Ralf Steuer

12:45 Modeling of cyanobacterial metabolism

Speaker: Ralf Steuer

13:15 When a chaotropic agent turns into a nutrient – Guanidine assimilation and riboswitch-based gene regulation in cyanobacteria for synthetic biology applications

Speaker: Stephan Klähn

13:35 Establishing an in vivo cascade in cyanobacteria for light-driven redox biocatalysis on gram scale.

Speaker: Adrian Tüllinghoff

13:55 From Lab-Scale Catalytic Biofilms to Living Materials

Speaker: Johannes Lambrecht

14:15 → 14:30 Coffee break

Free table talks

14:30 → 16:00 FACE: FACE - Science and future of PP

14:30 Introduction to FACE: Scientific activities and future development

Speaker: Anja Miltner

14:40 Soil microbes in a world full of pesticides: Why spatial heterogeneity matters and how we may predict the fate of pesticides on agricultural fields in the future

Speaker: Marie Uksa

14:55 Microbial transformation of organic micropollutants in redox-differentiated bank filtration systems

Speaker: Jimmy Köpke

15:10 Underexplored interactions: how microplastics and inorganic fillers affect the fate of plasticizes

Speaker: Mariam Karagulyan

15:25 Nature Strikes Back: Unleashing Hydrolases to Reshape the Future of Plastics

Speaker: Christian Sonnendecker

16:00 → 20:30 Open end table talks

Poster session Follow-up
Open end with Bretzels and drinks with