iBB

A group of 15 Ph. D. students and 3 staff members from the Bioprocessing Group of the University of Wageningen (NL) will be visiting IBB on the morning of the 23rd October, as part of their field trip to Portugal. A session will take place at the amphitheater of Complexo Interdisciplinar from 9 to 13 h where 2 PhD students from WU and 2 PhD students from IBB will have the opportunity to present their work. The students from WU will also have the opportunity to present their work in a dedicated poster session. All members of IBB are invited to participate (see program below and click on photo to go to Bioprocess Engineering @WU).

9:00-10:00   Welcome and Introductory presentations (WUR, IBB)

10:00-11:00 Tour IBB and Coffee break

11:00-12:00 PhD presentations (WUR, IBB)

12:00-13:00 Poster session and Closure

"Professor Mark van Loosdrecht, leader from the Environmental Biotechnology Group of TUDelft, visited the Environmental Biotechnology Lab of iBB on September 26 in the context of the collaboration established with Doctor Nídia Lourenço, principal investigator of the FCT-funded BIOTEXTILE project (PTDC/EBB-BIO/120624/2010). The project aims to assess the applicability of Aerobic Granular Sludge technology for dye-laden textile wastewater treatment and Mark van Loosdrecht is the inventor of this technology, which is already considered the next generation of wastewater biotreatment processes. Van Loosdrecht has received numerous awards, both from academia and industry, including the 2014 Spinoza Prize from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), the highest scientific distinction in the Netherlands. He is interested in extending the collaboration with iBB and he is currently co-supervising one MSc student with Nídia Lourenço and one PhD student with Nídia Lourenço and Helena Pinheiro. "