On the 20th and 21st of September 2017, P4SB held its 5th General Assembly in Strasbourg. During this highly successful meeting, the attending participants defined the project's goals for the next 18 months.
The General Assembly had all of the project partners in attendance, with the exception of BacMine. Many thanks go to everyone involved for an enjoyable, productive, well-organized meeting in a great location, and especially to SOPREMA for so kindly hosting the event in their rooms.
Prof. Lars Blank and Dr. Nick Wierckx from RWTH have been interviewed for a radio report from Deutschlandfunk to give their opinion about bioplastics. Read this interview on this webpage.
You can also listen to the full report by clicking on "Hören" in the right corner of the first picture on the Deutschlandfunk webpage. You can hear the Aachen team in minute 18.
Niall Beagan gives poster presentation at 9th European Symposium on Biopolymers
At this year's European Symposium on Biopolymers (ESBP 2017), the P4SB Project was well-represented: Not only attended CSIS the event in Tolouse this July, but the UCD Dublin, too, had Niall Beagan in attendance, who presented a poster on behalf of himself and his colleages at UCD.
The poster focused on 'The conversion of polyethyleneterephthalate (PET) monomers into polyhydroxyalkanoate', and can be seen here!
For more Information about this presentation and the ESBP 2017, check out the ESBP Homepage or the P4SB Facebook!
Manoli, M.-T.; Nogales, J.; Prieto, A. System analysis of the PHA cycle with a focus on PhaZ in the metabolic robustness of Pseudomonas putida.
Prieto, A. An updated view on medium-chain length polyhydroxyalkanoate production.
Mato, A.; Tarazona, N.; Hidalgo, A.; Cruz, A.; Jiménez, M.; Rivas, G.; Pérez Gil, J.; Prieto, A. Phasins at hydrophylic-hydrophobic interfaces: a promising tool for new biotechnological applications.
Prof. Lars Blank from RWTH Aachen University has been interviewed by WIRED, an American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics about the degradation of plastic by bacteria and caterpillars.
The RWTH newspaper "Karman" interviewed Prof. Lars Blank about P4SB and its contribution plastic waste reduction. Read the full article (in German):http://www.karman-ac.de
