Professor Ralf Pude of the university of Bonn is decisively involved in the development of an insulating material from natural resources and wins with the project High-capacity insulating plaster from renewable raw materials at the fourth idea market of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Bonn / Rhine-Sieg among 50 founders and idea givers the audience award.

Hannah Schneider (IBG-2, FZ Jülich) was selcted to present her research approach at the Falling Walls Conference in November in Berlin. She convinced the jury with her approach to optimize and adjust root properties and thereby increase nutrient uptake. On the long eng, this would increase plant yield and therefore is an important contribution for worldwide food security.

Reseachers from the groups of Prof. Michael Bott and Dr. Jan Marienhagen, FZ Jülich, have developed a new bacterial strain of Corynebacterium glutamicum which can produce interesting chemical substances. e.g. the antioxidant Reseratrol by using sugar.

The deadline for the BioSC International Summer School "From plant to product - value chains in a sustainable bioeconomy" was extended until 08 of June 2016!

More information: www.biosc.de/summerschool2016

Food Security in the context of bioeconomy

Dr. Nicole Schönleber (CEO Food Security Center, University of Hohenheim) will give a BioSC Lecture on 1st of June (4 p.m.) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. The seminar will provide an overview of the research and educational objectives of the Food Security Center in the context of (global) strategies on bioeconomy. Food Security is one of the major objectives of bioeconomy.

The new MiBioLab (Microbial Process Lab) will be set up at IBG-1 with Prof. Marco Oldiges, who is a member of BioSC. Aim of MiBioLab is to provide innovative technologies for the development of production processes for microorganisms. The project volume is expected to be almost € 4 million.