Away from their desks and out of the lab: the b-ACT matter team spent a day at the Nimbschen Monastery Hotel near Grimma to review the current status of research and transfer projects at b-ACT Matter.
Dr. Henri Franquelim and Dr. Rohan Karande presented the innovative research of their junior research groups on the development of biomimetic systems and biomaterials. The LivMat and REPLACER projects, for example, offer opportunities to transform the chemical industry with new bacterial technologies.
In the transfer sector, Prof. Tilo Pompe presented his research group’s start-up project, in which point-of-use sensor assays are developed and used as mobile detection methods for chemical compounds in environmental samples. Dr. Christian Sonnendecker from the start-up EST3R Biotech presented the latest optimizations in the design of plastic-degrading enzymes on the way to high-throughput processes for industrial use.
