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Winter School

Circular Economy for the Sustainable Bio-based Products: from waste to soil

Online • 15-16 November 2021

Winter School

Circular Economy for the Sustainable Bio-based Products: from waste to soil

Online
15-16 November 2021

Programme

 
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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