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9:15-10:00
Opening
Welcome
Organising Committee
Keynote Lecture
Luca Montanarella
The European Green Deal for sustainable soil management in Europe
I session: “Multiple bio-products by biorefinery from organic waste and waste waters”
10:00-11:00
Keynote Lecture
Gerasimos Lyberatos
Selected bioprocesses for the production of biofuels and energy
11:00-12:00
Selected oral presentations
Alice Lanfranchi
Effect of the hydrodynamic cavitation pre-treatment of bio-waste on the subsequent acidogenic fermentation, PHAs synthesis and anaerobic digestion processes
Matteo Grana
Start-up of the VFA production from waste sludge at the municipal WWTP of Sesto San Giovanni
Miriam Menini
Microbial electrosynthesis systems (MES) for CO2 bioconversion
12:00-12:30
Invited speaker
Maurizio Bettiga
An easy prediction: your best idea will perish in the valley of death. How to save and grow it into a biotech process
12:30-13:00
Round Table
II session: “Microalgae in the circular economy”
15:00-16:00
Keynote Lecture
Francisco Gabriel Acién Fernández
SABANA project: demonstrating the application of microalgae in agriculture and aquaculture
16:00-17:00
Selected oral presentations
Laura Capobianco
Development of strategies to control contamination in heterotrophic microalgae cultures
Caterina Celi
Multi-stage cascade extraction of bioactive compounds from microalga Phaeodactylum tricornutum in a biorefinery concept
Emanuele La Bella
Phycoremediation: a sustainable biotechnology as an alternative system for the wastewater management in farm holiday
Flavio Martini
The potential use of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Chlorella sorokiniana as biostimulants on maize plants
17:00-17:30
Invited speaker
Sara Badenes
Integrating microalgae production with industrial outputs
17:30-18:00
Round Table
III session: “Microorganisms for waste recycling: potential producers of high value bio-based products”
10:00-11:00
Keynote Lecture
Mauro Majone
Converting organic waste into biodegradable plastics
11:00-12:00
Selected oral presentations
Marco Andreolli
Thauera sp. Sel9: a newly isolated bacterial strain suitable for polyhydroxyalkanoate production from volatile fatty acids
Silvia Bellini
Circular economy approach for poly hydroxybutyrate biosynthesis through R. eutropha DSM 545
Francesco Regis
Microbial cell factories for the conversion of carbon dioxide into formic acid and production of electricity by direct formic acid fuel cell
12:00-12:30
Invited speaker
Fabio Fracchetti
Exploitation of microbial biodiversity in bio-based processes: patentability and marketing authorization of specific products
12:30-13:00
Round Table
IV session: “Waste biomass utilization, sustainable soil management and climate change mitigation”
15:00-16:00
Keynote Lecture
Rattan Lal
Transforming biowaste into asset through soil carbon sequestration
16:00-17:00
Selected oral presentations
Atilio De Frias
Sargassum seaweed valorization for biogas production
Claudio Cacace
Reuse of wasted bread, bioprocessed and not, as soil amendment
Gilbert Koskey
Vermicompost derived from wheat straw and dung residues enhance soil AMF activity and crop productivity
Giorgio Galluzzi
Soil organic carbon sequestration and dynamics in two fluvial terraces along a chronosequence
17:00-17:30
Invited speaker
Claudio Mondini
Use of models to evaluate C sequestration in amended soils: the case of RothC
17:30-18:00
Virtual Poster Session and Round Table
18:00-18:30
Closing remarks