Scientific Program
Here you can find the schedule:
List of topics:
- Renewable Resources
- Catalysts
- Reaction Engineering
- Downstream Processing
- Process Integration and Ecoefficiency
| Wednesday, 5th November 2008 | ||
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| 09:30 am | Registration | |
| Welcome | ||
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Udo Mager (Economic Development Agency Dortmund) | |
| Prof. Dr. Ursula Gather (Technische Universität Dortmund) | ||
| Prof. Dr. Gabriele Sadowski (Technische Universität Dortmund) | ||
| Session I / Keynote Chair: Prof. Dr. Andrzej Górak (Technische Universität Dortmund) | ||
| 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Dr. Michael Stückradt (Ministry of Innovation, Science, Research and Technology of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia) | |
| Prof. Dr. Stefanie Heiden (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt) | Biotech-Innovations - Key to Sustainability | |
| 11:00 am – 11:30 am | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 am – 12:15 pm | Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gregory Stephanopoulos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Keynote – Metabolic Engineering as Enabling Technology for the Production of Fuels and Chemicals: Past Accomplishments and a Vision for the Future |
| 12:15 pm – 01:45 pm | Lunch | |
| Session II / Renewable Resources Chair: Prof. Dr. Karl-Erich Jaeger (Forschungszentrum Jülich) | ||
| 01:45 pm – 02:10 pm | Prof. Dr. Rainer Diercks (BASF SE) | Raw Material Change in the Chemical Industry |
| 02:10 pm – 02:35 pm | Prof. Dr. Arno Behr (Technische Universität Dortmund) | Homogeneous Catalysis with Renewable Resources |
| 02:35 pm – 03:05 pm | Coffee Break | |
| Session III / Catalysts Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmid (Technische Universität Dortmund) | ||
| 03:05 pm – 03:30 pm | Prof. Dr. John Woodley (Technical University of Denmark) | Industrial Biocatalysis - A New Era |
| 03:30 pm – 03:55 pm | Dr. Jürgen Eck (B.R.A.I.N. AG) | Enabling Novel and Better Processes: Searching for the Ideal Biocatalysts |
| 03:55 pm – 04:20 pm | Prof. Dr. A.T. Martínez (Spanish National Research Council) | Tailor-made Oxidoreductases |
| 04:20 pm – 04:45 pm | Prof. Dr. Holger Zorn (Technische Universität Dortmund) | Fungal Secretomes – Nature’s Toolbox for White Biotechnology |
| Thursday, 6th November 2008 | ||
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| Session IV / Reaction Engineering Chair: Dr. Marcel Wubbolts (DSM Research) | ||
| 08:30 am – 08:55 am | Prof. Dr. Michihiko Kataoka (Kyoto University) | Screening of Novel Microbial Enzymes and their Application to Chiral Compound Production |
| 09:00 am – 09:25 am | Prof. Dr. Patrick Adlercreutz (Lund University) | Biocatalysis for the Sustainable Production of Surfactants and Coatings |
| 09:30 am – 09:55 am | Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmid (Technische Universität Dortmund) | Biocatalyst Design for Chemical Syntheses |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Coffee Break | |
| Session V / Downstream Processing Chair: Prof. Gerhard Schembecker (Technische Universität Dortmund) | ||
| 10:30 am – 10:55 am | Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kulozik (Technische Universität München) | Selective Fractionation of Proteins in a Systems Engineering Approach |
| 11:00 am – 11:25 am | Prof. Dr. Luuk A.M. van der Wielen (Delft University of Technology) | ABC of Biotechnology: Avoiding Bioseparation Costs |
| 11:30 am – 11:55 am | Prof. Dr. Andrzej Górak (Technische Universität Dortmund) | Monoclonal Antibody Purification: A European Research Initiative |
| 12:00 pm – 01:00 pm | Lunch | |
| Session VI / Process Integration and EcoefficiencyChair: Prof. Dr. Andrzej Górak (Technische Universität Dortmund) | ||
| 01:00 pm – 01:25 pm | Dr. Thomas Haas (Evonik Industries AG) | White Biotechnology and Polymer Chemistry: Chances for New Monomer Synthesis Processes |
| 01:30 pm – 01:55 pm | Dr. Marcel Wubbolts (DSM Research) | Integration of Chemistry and Biotechnology for Next Generation Biorefineries |
| 02:00 pm – 02:25 pm | Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schembecker (Technische Universität Dortmund) | Integrated Biochemical and Chemical Processes |
| 02:30 pm – 03:30 pm | Final Discussion / Concluding Remarks | |



