Final Programme




MARCH 2, 2011 – MORNING

09.00 - 10.00 REGISTRATION
CONFERENCE ROOM AND COUNCIL ROOM (VIDEOCONFERENCE)
PLENARY (CHAIR: G. FREDDI, J. MAREK)
10.00 - 10.10 SPADA Alessandro - President of Innovhub, Special Agency for Innovation - Member of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, Italy - Welcome
10.10 - 10.40 GUEBITZ Georg - TUGraz, Austria - Biotechnical Functionalisation of Renewable Polymeric Materials - highlights of the past 5 years and future prospects
10.40 - 11.20 KAPLAN David - TUFTS University, Boston, USA - High Tech Biotechnology Applications for Silk
11.20 - 11.30 SAROLLI Gianpaolo - Innovhub, Special Agency for Innovation of CCIAA, Milan, Italy - Focused Collaborations with Emerging Countries: when Europe Meets India with the European Business and Technology Centre
11.30 - 12.00 COFFEE BREAK - POSTER SESSION
CONFERENCE ROOM COUNCIL ROOM
SESSION A: BIOCATALYSTS AND BIOFUNCTIONALIZATION
(CHAIR: M. FRANSSEN)		 SESSION D: SMART MATERIALS AND NANOMATERIALS
(CHAIR: T. TZANOV)
12.00 - 12.20 A.101 - SANNIA Giovanni - University of Naples, Italy - Pleurotus ostreatus: Invaluable Source of Laccases for Industrial Production 12.00 - 12.20 D.101 - WINESTRAND Sandra - Karlstad University, Sweden - Active-packaging Films with Oxalate Oxidase
12.20 - 12.40 A.102 - BALDRIAN Petr - ASCR, Czech Republic - Targeted Search for Environmental Cellulases in Soil Metagenomes Using Tag-encoded 454-Titanium Pyrosequencing 12.20 - 12.40 D.102 - WEHRSCHUETZ-SIGL Eva - TUGraz, Austria - Polymer Integrated Sensor Materials for the Detection of Wound Infection
12.40 - 13.00 A.103 - SILVA Carla - University of Minho, Portugal - Thermobifida fusca Cutinase: Site Directed Mutagenesis and Substrate Recognition 12.40 - 13.00 D.103 - MUTLU Selma - Hacettepe University, Turkey - Construction of an Enzymatic Biofuel Cell by Surface Modification of Carbon Electrodes
13.00 - 14.30 LUNCH - POSTER SESSION

MARCH 2, 2011 – AFTERNOON

CONFERENCE ROOM COUNCIL ROOM
SESSION A: BIOCATALYSTS AND BIOFUNCTIONALIZATION
(CHAIR:G. SANNIA)		 SESSION D: SMART MATERIALS AND NANOMATERIALS
(CHAIR: M.C. TANZI)
14.30 - 14.50 A.104 - NYANHONGO Gibson - TUGraz, Austria - From Biofunctionalized Lignocellulose Materials to Biomedical Therapeutic Polymers: a Mechanistic Overview of Laccase Mediated Reactions 14.30 - 14.50 D.104 - DRAGHI Lorenza - Politecnico Milano, Italy - Sol-gel Coatings for Hemp Fabrics Ennoblement
14.50 - 15.10 A.105 - BOŽIČ Mojca - University of Maribor, Slovenia - Targeting of Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Properties of Chitosan Enzymatically Modified with Phenolics 14.50 - 15.10 D.105 - ROSACE Giuseppe - University of Bergamo, Italy - Hybrid Materials by Sol-Gel Process for Biosensing Applications on Textile Fabrics
15.10 - 15-30 A.106 - KIM Suyeon - University of Minho, Portugal - Laccase-Assisted Anchoring of Protein-Flavonoid Conjugates onto Linen Fabrics 15.10 - 15-30 D.106 - HACKER Christoph - Institut fuer Textiltechnik der RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Submicron Polymer Fibers from Melt Electrospinning for Biomedical Applications
15.30 - 15.50 A.107 - KOIKE Kenzo - Kao Corporation, Tokyo, Japan - A Novel Hair Dyeing Technology by Using Melanin Precursor Prepared by an Aspergillus Tyrosinase 15.30 - 15.50 D.107 - ATAMAN Demet - Hacettepe University, Turkey - Characterization of Aptamer Immobilized Gold Nanoparticles
15.50 - 16.20 COFFEE BREAK - POSTER SESSION 15.50 - 16.20 COFFEE BREAK - POSTER SESSION
CONFERENCE ROOM COUNCIL ROOM
SESSION A: BIOCATALYSTS AND BIOFUNCTIONALIZATION
(CHAIR:W. ZIMMERMANN)		 SESSION F: TEXTILE BIOPROCESSING
(CHAIR: A. CAVACO-PAULO)
16.20 - 16.40 A.108 - ANDREAUS Jürgen - FURB - Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Brazil - Modification of Polyester Fabrics with Purified Enzymes from Thermobifida fusca KW3B 16.20 - 16.40 F.101 - KÄLIN Albin - Bäck / SZ, Switzerland - Cradle to Cradle® Design a Principle Applied to the Textile Industry
16.40 - 17.00 A.109 - FRANSSEN Maurice - Wageningen University, The Netherlands - Enzyme-catalyzed Modification of Polyethersulfone Membranes 16.40 - 17.00 F.102 - PERIOLATTO Monica - Politecnico di Torino, Italy - Antimicrobial Finish of Silk Fabrics by Chitosan UV-Curing
17.00 - 17.20 A.110 - WU Jing - Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China - Extracellular Expression and Scale-up Production of Recombinant Cutinase from T. fusca 17.00 - 17.20 F.103 - DUTSCHK Victoria - Twente University, The Netherlands - Effects of Low-Pressure Plasma and Subsequent Enzymatic Treatment on Cellulose
17.20 - 17.40 A.111 - NIERSTRASZ Vincent - Ghent University, Belgium - NO BUG: Novel Release Systems and Biobased Utilities for Insect Repellent Textiles 17.20 - 17.40 F.104 - GLAMPEDAKI Pelagia - Twente University, The Netherlands - Functional Finishing of Aminated Polyester Using Biopolymer-based Polyelectrolyte Microgels
17.40 - 18.00 A.112 - TKAVC Tina - Perutnina Ptuj d.d., Slovenia - Comparative Study of Functionalized Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Surfaces Treated with Oxygen Plasma and Cutinase 17.40 - 18.00 F.105 - CEYLAN Özgür - Ghent University, Belgium - Small Scale Dyeing Method to Evaluate Novel Bioengineered Cotton Fibres: a Feasibility Study