ECO-BIO 2018 will bring together representatives from both academia and industry to highlight progress and recent developments and the necessary steps to make the biobased economy a reality.Taking place over two and a half days, ECO-BIO 2018 will comprise plenary talks and forum discussions, parallel sessions, posters and an exhibition together with optional company visits. ECO-BIO 2018 provides a platform where industries, scientists, NGOs, and governments will meet each other to discuss the needs of a biobased economy from an academic, environmental and societal point of view.
Abstracts are invited on the following topics for presentation in the lively poster sessions:
- Track 1: Scientific Discovery
- new feedstocks (algae, specialty crops, etc.)
- industrial microbiology
- synthetic biology
- nanobioscience
- metagenomics and mining, computational engineering
- bioactive compounds from nature
- Track 2: (Industrial) Technological Development
- pretreatment
- renewable products (high performance materials, specialty chemicals, building blocks, food, feed & nutritional ingredients, health, personal & home care, etc)
- bioenergy
- consolidated bioprocessing/integration and intensification of bioprocesses
- use of residual streams (MSW, CO/CO2, ….)
- Track 3: Impact assessment of biobased solutions
- ecological aspects (soil, water, human, climate)
- soil and crop management, nutrient cycles
- social, environmental and economic impacts
- biomass supply
- policy and public perception
- Track 4: Innovation and valorization
- biorefinery concepts
- new value chains/clusters
- start-ups/SMEs
- green tech capital/investors
Location:
IrelandBenefits
Through various forum discussions, sessions and exhibitions, you will get to know about :
- The latest research and innovation in biobased products and processes
- How the biobased economy is embedded in society
- Encouraging new research partnerships to enable new cascaded biobased value chains
- Once the paper is accepted, the authors will get to present the paper at the conference.
Eligibilities
- Open for all.
- Abstracts must be on the given topics.
Application Process
Applicants must follow all the procedures given in the link below:
Application Deadline: January 19, 2018
Application ClosedOfficial link
