Biochemical colloquium of the Faculty of Life Sciences and b-ACT matter
||| May 27, 2025 |||
We cordially invite you to the joint Biochemical Colloquium of the Faculty of Life Sciences and b-ACT matter on May 27, 2025. The topic of the lecture by Prof. Dr. Philipp Seib is “Silk for pharmaceutics”.
How methane and CO₂ can help tackle plastic pollution
Country Overshoot Day marks the date each year when a country would have exhausted its annual biocapacity budget — if everyone in the world lived like its population. At Leipzig University’s b-ACTmatter research and transfer centre, innovative approaches are being explored to address the growing scarcity of resources in the face of a rising global population — through sustainable production processes and circular economy technologies.
PET Recycling: Biochemists found start-up
The enzyme PHL7 is making headlines – discovered in a compost heap at Leipzig’s Südfriedhof cemetery, it breaks down PET, such as plastic fruit trays from the supermarket, by more than 90 per cent in a record time of just 16 hours. That is twice as fast as previously known…
Joint Physics Colloquium − Biochemical Colloquium − b-ACT Colloquium
||| April 29, 2025 |||
We cordially invite you to the joint biochemical colloquium of the Institute of Biochemistry, the Peter Debye Institute and b-ACT matter, which will take place on April 29, 2025.
The topic of Prof. Dr. Rosalind Allens’ talk will be “Using physics to understand how bacteria infect urinary catheters”.