Category: Event

Innovative Bio-based Materials and Technologies: Shaping Future Regional Development and Perspectives

We invite you to the b-ACT ^matter Symposium

on 24 March 2025
from 9 am to 6 pm

in the BIO CITY LEIPZIG.

We kindly invites you to engage in a dynamic discussion centered on bio-based materials and cutting-edge technologies for novel applications. Our goal is to offer a wider perspective on the future directions of this innovative research area. Together with our esteemed partners from international, national, and regional projects, alongside invited scientists, local and regional policymakers, and government, we will explore the following key topics:

1. New methodologies and principles in bioactive matter and AI for advancing sustainable technologies.
2. Technology transfer in natural and life sciences, with a focus on fostering innovation and start-ups in these fields.
3. Chemical production within a circular economy framework.
4. Resource management and sustainability, including critical areas such as energy, feed, and water.
5. Sensor technologies for applications in medicine and environmental monitoring.

The specific programme schedule can be found in the agenda.

Registration
Please register by using the online form.
If you have any questions, please contact us by Email.

VENUE
Leipzig University
Center of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BBZ)
Lecture hall (SR 1)
Deutscher Platz 5
04103 Leipzig

Agenda Symposium
Programme

Thanks to our sponsors:

On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, a science slam will take place at Leipzig University at 8:00 p.m., where Selina Hanisch from the b-ACT junior research group BioMat will also give a presentation. The event will be moderated by Jack Pop, known from the Circus of Science Leipzig. The supporting program and other slams will be held in German, Selina’s presentation will be in English. All interested parties are cordially invited to experience an entertaining evening together.

The event is free of charge.

Where?
Leipzig University
Chemistry & Minearology
Johannisallee 29
grand lecture hall 027

When?
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
8 -10 pm (entry: 7:30 pm)

What?
Interactive science event with slams from medicine, computer science, biochemistry, biotechnology and, of course, lots of memes! Link to the event page: Universität Leipzig: Science Slam: Vorhang auf für die Wissenschaft

Topic of the talk:
Exoelectrogenesis as an enduring extracellular electron transport pathway in photosynthetic bacteria

Referent:
Dr. Laura Wey
Photosynthetic Microbes Group, University of Turku, Finnland

When?
December 3, 2024 | 2:30 pm

Where?
in KUBUS 1CD
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Permoserstrasse 15
04318 Leipzig

In this seminar Dr. Laura Wey will present her research on exoelectrogenesis – the fascinating behaviour of photosynthetic microorganisms (and chloroplasts) whereby they export electrons to their external environment. Her work aims to elucidate the underlying biophotoelectrochemical mechanisms of exoelectrogenesis, identifying the electron sources and pathways involved, as well as how this process interacts with other auxiliary electron transport pathways within the cell. She will discuss how she has coupled photoelectrochemistry with photosynthesis spectroscopy to analyse photocurrent profiles alongside key photosynthetic parameters, such as P700 and ferredoxin redox kinetics, of mutants lacking photosystems or intracellular electron sinks, such as flavodiiron proteins and the NDH-1 complex. Their findings reveal that while intracellular electron transport pathways initially dominate, exoelectrogenesis persists long-term, continuing to generate photocurrent even in the presence of a strong heterologous intracellular electron sink.
She looks forward to sharing these findings and their potential implications for green energy and biotechnology.

All members of b-ACT matter are cordially invited!

We cordially invite you to the Joint Biochemical colloquium of the Institute of Biochemistry and b-ACT matter in December.

Topic of the colloquium:

Carbon dioxide utilization and microbiomes: Unraveling physiological traits of anaerobic (gas-fermenting) microbes

Referent:
Dr. Bastian Molitor

When?
December 10, 2024 | 16:00 to 17:30

Where?
The event will take place in presence.

Faculty of Life Sciences
Brüderstr. 34
Small lecture hall (2nd floor)

Can’t attend on site?
For all those interested who cannot attend on site, there is also the option of taking part via livestream:
https://uni-leipzig.zoom-x.de/j/65624868400
Meeting-ID: 656 2486 8400
Kenncode: 347108

The research of Dr. Bastian Molitor is mainly focused in microbes that thrive in the complete absence of oxygen (anaerobes), and that feed on gases such as hydrogen and carbon dioxide as substrates for growth. These microbes can be found in many natural and man-made environments, in the digestive tract of animals and humans, as well as in anaerobic digesters, where they encounter interactions with other microbes and get infected by microbial viruses.

September 18, 2024
The EU Marie-Curie-Network „DYnamic control in hybrid plasmonic NAnopores: road to next generation multiplexed single MOlecule detection DYNAMO“ is organizing a research and training network for developing the next-generation single molecule technologies using hybrid DNA and metallic nanostructures.
Within a three-day network workshop of the doctoral program, there will be a joint DYNAMO/b-ACT matter event on Wednesday, September 18, where doctoral students can present their research in lectures. The network will include academic and high-tech industry partners that are experts in optical spectroscopy, DNA nanostructure, nanopore technology, and single molecule detection. The DYNAMO objective is to prepare the next generation of highly skilled researchers that will advance the science of single molecule detection and characterisation.

Agenda of the joint DYNAMO b-ACTmatter Lecture

9:00 – 10:30: Session 1: Structural DNA nanotechnology – DNA nanostructures, design principles, methods, supra-structure assembly (Lecturer: Dr. Henri Franquelim)
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30: Session 2: DNA-based colloidal assembly – colloidal assembly, CNT alignment, DNA-based lithography, applications (Lecturer: Prof. Ralf Seidel)
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30: Session 3: Tech Transfer and IP (Lecturer: Dr. Susanne Ebitsch)
16:00: End of Joint Lecture 

Joint colloquium of the Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences and b-ACT^matter

The Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences and b-ACT^matter jointly invite you to the next lecture of the Physics Colloquium.

Tuesday, 21 May 2024 at 4:30pm

Topic:

Active bacterial fluid

Prof. Dr. Eric Clément (PMMH-ESPCI-PSL, Sorbonne University, Paris)

Understanding the way motile microorganisms such as bacteria explore their environment is central to many ecological, medical and biotechnological issues. Fluids loaded with swimming micro-organisms have become a rich domain of applications and a conceptual playground for the statistical physics of “active matter”. Such active bacterial fluids display original emergent phases as well as unconventional macroscopic transport properties, hence leading to revisit standard concepts in the physics and hydrodynamics of suspensions.
Prof. Dr. Eric Clément will present some recent advances obtained in his group, on the anomalous spatial exploration undertaken by flagellated bacteria undergoing sequences of runs and tumbles. He will address the question of spontaneous emergence of a “critical fluid” for a dense suspension of bacteria, characterized by a vanishing viscosity and the presence of large scale collective motion.

Venue of the event

Universität Leipzig
Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences
Small Lecture Hall
Linnéstraße 5
04103 Leipzig

Everyone is welcome to a reception with coffee, drinks and cookies in the Aula following
the talk.

For an up-to-date semester program, sign-up for the physics colloquium mailing list,
and subscription to the digital calendars in CalDAV format, head to the colloquiums
web page .

On Thursday, 21 March 2024, industry leaders, scientists and technology transfer stakeholders discussed #trend technologies and innovations in the field of #chemistry as a building block of the future at the #futureSAX innovation forum in Delitzsch, Saxony

In the World Café Panel Life Science, Dr Susanne Ebitsch, Managing Director of the Research and Transfer Centre for Bioactive Matter, and Dr Oliver Uecke, COO Lipotype GmbH, discussed with participants the services that are still missing for a functioning circular economy:

o There is a lack of (sustainably financed) exchanges or databases for recyclable residual materials.

o In order to increase recycling rates in the plastics and textiles sector(Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitut e.V. (STFI)), suitable sorting processes and new technologies are needed that enable the recycling of composite materials, 3D printing waste(Better Basics Laborbedarf GmbH) and new plastics, for example.

Delitzsch will also be the location of the large-scale research centre Center for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC). In his keynote speech at the futureSAX Innovation Forum, Peter Seeberger, Head of the CTC, presented the vision of a future-oriented, cycle-based utilisation of raw materials and their recycling at the end of the product cycle.

USP of the region: There is space for innovative companies and living space, paired with creative science.

Thank you for the inspiring talks! Now let’s get to work.

Designing innovative solutions and exchanging ideas: How is chemistry finding practical use as a connecting element in the fields of materials science, life science and energy? Which innovative products, services and processes are already being used today? You will receive answers to these questions and further impulses at the futureSAX Innovation Forum in North Saxony.

Dr. Susanne Ebitsch, Managing Director of the Research and Transfer Centre for Bioactive Matter at the University of Leipzig, and Dr. Oliver Uecke, Managing Director of Lipotype GmbH and Chairman of biosaxony e.V. will jointly moderate the World Café Panel Services Life Science, in which innovative, future-oriented services for the transformation of the chemical industry will be discussed in an interdisciplinary manner.

You are cordially invited to our b-ACT^matter workshop on March 19 2024 entitled “Transforming Discoveries into Products”. This workshop will discuss the strategies and practices needed to transform your research results into products and services. It will also discuss how Leipzig University approaches the patenting and licensing of inventions and how to realize spin-off ideas.

When?
March  19 2024, 10.00 – 12.30

Where?
BBZ, Seminar Room 1.3,
Deutscher Platz 5, 04103 Leipzig

Learning Objectives

• A broad overview of the field of Technology Transfer;
• Gain insights into patenting and patent evaluation, and the licensing process;
• Increase knowledge on setting up a spin-off company, including the broad financing possibilities;
• Understanding which steps are necessary for developing a product or service

Flyer of Event

Contact
Dr. Susanne Ebitsch,
E-Mail

Please register by 29 February by E-Mail.