Programme

  • Keynotes: 30 minutes + 10 minutes discussion
  • Young Scientists Special Session: 25 minutes + 5 minutes discussion
  • Talk: 15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion
Format
  • Full HD 16:9
  • 4:3 is also possible

Speaker’s Desk including PC, microphone. Please bring your presentation on a USB stick or download it from an online provider. 

Format
  • A0 portrait format.

Conference language is English.


Monday, 9th May

12:00 Registration opens
12:50 Welcome: Katja Bühler (UFZ, DE) & Markus Weitere (UFZ, DE)
 
Biofilm ecology and ecotoxicology I
Session chairs: Mechthild Schmitt & Ahmed Tlili
13:00 Keynote: Anna Maria Romani Cornet (University of Girona, ES)
Title: Biofilm ecology: structure, dynamics, actors and factors in a stress world.
13:40 Christine Anlanger (UFZ, DE)
Title: Hydraulic control of biofilm diversity and function in streams.
14:00 Dorothee L. Kurz (ETHZ, CH)
Title: Mechanisms driving intermittency in preferential flow paths in porous media biofilms.
14:20 Nuria Perujo (UFZ, DE)
Title: The role of biofilms for phosphorus removal in fluvial ecosystems: concentration- and time-dependent processes.
14:40 Sergio Tomas-Martinez (Delft University of Technology, NL)
Title: Stable isotope labelling to track the metabolic turnover of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) of Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis.
15:00 Coffee break and poster session 1
 
Biofilm ecology and ecotoxicology II
Session chairs: Anna Maria Romani Cornet & Markus Weitere
16:00 Keynote: Dr. Ahmed Tlili (Eawag, CH)
Title: How important are aquatic biofilms to assess ecotoxicological effects?
16:40 Louis Carles (Eawag, CH)
Title: Impact of wastewater microorganisms on the microbial communities of stream biofilms and their sensitivity to micropollutants.
17:00 Francesca Di Pippo (IRSA-CNR, IT)
Title: Microplastic-associated biofilms in lentic ecosystems: biodiversity, structure and possible implication for freshwater ecosystems.
17:20 Henriette Lyng Røder (University of Copenhagen, DK)
Title: Selection for – and impact of – evolved genotypic variants in multispecies biofilms.
17:40 Marta Rudzite (Imperial College London, GB)
Title: How Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses Type VI Secretion system to shape the structure of polymicrobial communities.
18:00 Welcome reception at KUBUS foyer

Tuesday, 10th May

 
Biofilm application I
Session chairs: Ingmar Riedel - Kruse & Katja Bühler
09:00 Keynote: Haluk Beyenal (Washington State University, US)
Title: Electrochemically active biofilms.
09:40 Lucian Staicu (University of Warsaw, PL)
Title: Industrial microbial mat-sourced Shewanella strain: versatile polymetallic and anaerobic respirer.
10:00 Andreas Netsch (DVGW / KIT, DE)
Title: On-line monitoring of biofilm accumulation on graphite-polypropylene electrodes applicable in bioelectrochemical systems using a heat transfer sensor.
10:20 Benjamin Korth (UFZ, DE)
Title: Metal disco: Perfect partnership opportunities for electroactive biofilms?
10:40 Coffee break
 
Biofilm application II
Session chairs: Dorina Strieth & Mark van Loosdrecht
11:00 Keynote: Johannes Gescher (TU Hamburg, DE)
Title: Productive biofilms on electrode surfaces.
11:40 Yagut Allahverdiyeva (University of Turku, FI)
Title: Towards efficient chemicals production with microalgal artificial biofilms.
12:00 Jonas Kollmen (TU Kaiserslautern, DE)
Title: Influence of phototrophic biofilms on plant growth promoting properties of soil.
12:20 Johannes Eberhard Reiner (KIT, DE)
Title: Scalable biofilm reactors as key component of a reaction cascade for the production of 2,3‑butanediol from food waste.
12:40 Lunch break & poster session 2
 
Biofilm application III
Session chairs: Haluk Beyenal & Jan Kreft
14:00 Keynote: Mark van Loosdrecht (Delft University of Technology, NL)
Title: Engineering biofilm morphology and development of the Nereda technology for wastewater treatment.
14:40 Keke Xiao (KIT, DE)
Title: Changes of ANAMMOX biofilm under stepwise increased ciprofloxacin stress.
15:00 Skander Hathroubi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE)
Title: Optimizing productivity and quality of bacterial cellulose by applying intermittent harvests.
15:20 Timothy Overton (University of Birmingham, UK)
Title: Polymer-Induced Biofilms for Biocatalysis.
15:40 Yan Gao (University of Paris-Saclay, FR)
Title: The impact of light regimes on Chlorella vulgaris biofilm structural dynamics and physiology.
16:00 Coffee break
 
Tools & modelling
Session chairs: Hannah Jeckel & Harald Horn
16:20 Keynote: Michael Wagner (KIT, DE)
Title: Biofilm imaging and its changes within the last decades.
17:00 Giorgio Pratofiorito (KIT, DE)
Title: Differentiating biofilm growth on spacer and membrane in flat sheet membrane units with optical coherence tomography.
17:20 Clara Toulouze (Toulouse Institute of Fluid Mechanics, FR)
Title: Gold optimized nanohybride for a selective labeling and imaging in micro tomography of biofilm grown in porous media.
17:40 Sudarsan Mugunthan (Nanyang Technological University, SG)
Title: Single molecule FISH – Novel tool for identifying extracellular RNA distribution in biofilms.
18:00 Closing day 2

Wednesday, 11th May
Tools & modelling continued...
Session chairs: Johannes Gescher & Benjamin Korth
09:00 Keynote: Jan Kreft (University of Birmingham, GB)
Title: Mathematical modelling of biofilms: what have we learnt?
09:40 Mario Plattes (LIST, LU)
Title: Zero-dimensional modelling and bacterial characterization of an aerobic granular sludge reactor.
10:00 Dorina Strieth (TU Kaiserslautern, DE)
Title: Comprehensive characterization of phototrophic biofilms.
10:20 Hannah Jeckel (Philipps-University Marburg, DE)
Title: Multispecies phase diagram reveals biophysical principles of bacterial biofilm.
10:40 Coffee break
11:00 Alexandra Jackson (Southampton University, GB)
Title: An elastomeric model biofilm system for assessing the effect of physico-mechanical properties of marine biofilms on drag.
11:20 Andrea Teuber (University of Ulm, DE)
Title: A novel bacterial sensing platform: Diamond thin-film waveguides based on quantum cascade laser mid-infrared spectroscopy.

Young Scientists Special Session
Session chairs: Katja Bühler & Markus Weitere
11:40 Introduction
11:45 Erika Muratov (DLR, DE)
Title: Next generation of decontamination technologies: challenging Bacillus subtilis biofilms with cold plasmas.
12:15 Rui Du (KIT, DE)
Title: Novel integration of partial denitrification and anammox in biofilm systems for nitrogen removal: Proof of concept from high-strength to low-strength waste water.
12:45 Ruben Gerrits (BAM, DE)
Title: Fungal biofilms are supported by extracellular polymeric substances and protective pigments in their substrate attachment and desiccation tolerance.
13:15 Lunch break & poster session 3
14:10 Olga Lamprecht (Eawag, CH)
Title: Bottom-up establishment and application of synthetic periphyton community.
14:40 Bumkyu Kim (University of Notre Dame, US)
Title: Genetically engineered culture with reduced EPS production results in improved performance for biofilm reactors.
15:10 Coffee break

Emerging technologies
Session chairs: Erika Muratov & Andreas Schmid
15:40 Keynote: Ingmar Riedel Kruse (University of Arizona, US)
Title: Engineering bacterial multicellularity with synthetic adhesins for green applications.
16:20 Moshe Herzberg (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IL)
Title: Linking adhesion of EPS with the temporal gene expression of microbial biofilms developed in wastewater on RO membranes: Meta-transcriptomic analysis combined with a QCM-D study.
16:40 Lan Li Wong (Nanyang Technological University, SG)
Title: Are surface (S-) layer proteins public good biofilm matrix exopolymers?
17:00 Mahir Bozan (UFZ, DE)
Title: Dual-species cyanobacterial biofilms for technical application.
17:20 Praveen Singh (RWTH, DE)
Title: Vibrio cholerae biofilm dispersal regulator causes cell release from matrix through type IV pilus retraction.
17:40 Eva M.Voglauer (FFoQSI GmbH, AU)
Title: Water hose biofilms in the meat processing environment harbor complex microbial communities.
18:00 Transfer to conference dinner & closing

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