On February 29, the members of the Bioeconomy Council NRW received their certificates of appointment from Minister Neubauer. With Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr and Prof. Dr. Ralf Pude, three members of the BioSC have been appointed.
Photos: MWIKE NRW / A. Bowinkelmann
moreProfessor Joachim von Braun, former member of the BioSC, has been appointed Ambassador for Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).
Photo: IICA
moreIn order to strengthen the bioeconomy location of North Rhine-Westphalia, the state government has decided to establish the Bioeconomy Council NRW which will be involved in developing a bioeconomy strategy for North Rhine-Westphalia over the next two years. Among the 15 experts from industry, science and civil society are three members of the BioSC, Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann, Prof. Dr. Ralf Pude and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr, as well as Prof. Dr. Stefanie Bröring, BioSC member until 2022.
moreTwo research teams led by Dr. Till Tiso (Institute of Applied Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University, and member of the BioSC) have successfully acquired research projects to continue work from the BioSC projects SurfIn, Bio² and NovoSurf, among others.
(Photo: iAMB, RWTH Aachen)
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Figure: Seed Fund 3.0 PREDIG
As overall goal of the BioSC Seed Fund 3.0 project PREDIG, the team led by Dr Adélaïde Raguin (HHU Düsseldorf) has successfully developed a Web Application to simulate biomass saccharification, that is now online available and published in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.
Mehr InformationDe, PS, Glass, T, Stein, M, Spitzlei, T and Raguin, A (2023). PREDIG: Web application to model and predict the enzymatic saccharification of plant cell wall. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 21: 5463-5475. PREDIG
Waßenhoven, A., Rennings, M., Laibach, N., Bröring, S. (2023). What constitutes a “Key Enabling Technology” for transition processes: Insights from the bioeconomy's technological landscape. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 197: 122873. 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122873. Transform2Bio
Schonhoff, A., Stöckigt, G., Wulf, C., Zapp, P., Kuckshinrichs, W. (2023). Biosurfactants production with substrates from the sugar industry - environmental, cost, market and social aspects. RSC Sustainability, doi 10.1039/D3SU00122A Bio2
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