ECO-BIO 2018

Start Date Mar 4, 2018
End Date Mar 7, 2018
Event Type Conference
Subject Area Nanobiotechnology Biology - Life science Agriculture - Husbandry - Fisheries Environment New energy - Renewable energy Others

DESCRIPTION

ECO-BIO 2018 will bring together representatives from both academia and industry to highlight progress and recent developments and the necessary steps to make the biobased economy a reality.

Taking place over two and a half days, ECO-BIO 2018 will comprise plenary talks and forum discussions, parallel sessions, posters and an exhibition together with optional company visits.

Topics:

Track 1: Scientific Discovery
- new feedstocks (algae, specialty crops, etc.)
- industrial microbiology
- synthetic biology
- nanobioscience
- metagenomics and mining,
- computational engineering
- bioactive compounds from nature

Track 2: (Industrial) Technological Development

- pretreatment
- renewable products (high performance materials, specialty chemicals, building blocks, food, feed & nutritional ingredients, health, personal & home care, etc)
- bioenergy
- consolidated
- bioprocessing/integration and
- intensification of bioprocesses
- use of residual streams (MSW, CO/CO2, ….)

Track 3: Impact assessment of biobased solutions

- ecological aspects (soil, water, human, climate)
- soil and crop management, nutrient cycles
- social, environmental and economic impacts
- biomass supply
- policy and public perception

Track 4: Innovation and valorisation

- biorefinery concepts
- new value chains/clusters
- start-ups/SMEs
- green tech capital/investors

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