SymposiumThe Future of Biotechnology and Biofilm Research

The Symposium The Future of Biotechnology and Biofilm Research will take place in the CvL-Lecture Hall of the IPM.

• 13∶15
  Welcome & Introductory remarks by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Ritter
  Dean of the MIN Faculty

• 13:30
  Prof. Dr. Mirjam Perner (Geomar Kiel)
  Microbes in climate change

• 14:00
  Prof. Dr. Karl-Erich Jaeger (Research Center Jülich & University of Düsseldorf) 
  Fun with enzymes: a story of old and new hydrolases

• 14:30
   Prof. Dr. Marie Schölmerich (ETH Zürich)
  Extrachromosomal elements in C1-metabolizing microbe

• 15:00
  Group photo on the terrace / Coffeebreak

• 15:30
  Prof. Dr. Hans-Curt Flemming (University of Duisburg-Essen)
  The perfect slime: The house of biofilm cells

• 16:00
  Prof. Rotem Sorek (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
  The arms race between bacteria and their viruses

• 16:30
  Prof. Dr. Alexander Probst (University of Duisburg-Essen)
  Advancing the microbiome toolkit in the post-genomic era

• 17:00
  Closing remarks by Prof. Dr. Ruth Schmitz-Streit