Joint ESAB-SusChem Webinar on Biocatalytic and Sustainable Chemistry: Biocatalysis and Renewables

Joint ESAB-SusChem Webinar

Biocatalytic and Sustainable Chemistry: Biocatalysis and Renewables

Friday, 24^th  June 2022

14.00-16.00 Central European Time (CET)
08.00-10.00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
13.00-15.00 British Summer Time (BST)
20.00-22.00 China Standard Time (CST)

 
Chairs

• Pablo Domínguez de María (Sustainable Momentum SL, ESAB Working Group Sustainable Chemistry, SusChem Management Team)
• Andrés R. Alcántara (Complutense Univ. of Madrid, ESAB Working Group Sustainable Chemistry, SusChem Board)
  
  

Programme / Speakers (25 min. lecture, 5 min. discussion)

14:00 - 14:30 CEST	Biocatalysis – Opportunities and challenges for industrial production Prof. Dr. Stefan Buchholz Head of R&D for the Division Nutrition & Care, Evonik Operations GmbH, Germany
14:30 - 15:00 CEST	Biotransformations as Key Steps in the Conversion of Unsaturated Fatty Acids into Industrial Chemicals Prof. Dr. Harald Gröger Department of Chemistry, Industrial Organic Chemistry and Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
15:00 - 15:30 CEST	Chemobiocatalytic upgrading of furfural to C4 chemicals Prof. Dr. Ning Li School of Food Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
15:30 - 16:00 CEST	Enzymes for converting chitin/chitosans into highly valuable products Prof. Dr. Bruno Moerschbacher Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Münster University, Germany

Programme Flyer
Abstracts and Short Bios of the speakers