Thursday, October 14, 2010
2.30 pm — 3.00 pm
Welcome address
Bärbel Friedrich ML (Academic Director of the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald)
Introduction
Rudolf K. Thauer ML (Member of the Presidium of the Leopoldina)
Availability of biomass as energy source
Chair: Rudolf K. Thauer ML (Marburg)
3.00 pm — 3.35 pm
Terrestrial biomass carbon and its use
Christian Körner ML (Basel)
3.35 pm — 4.10 pm
Above-ground net primary production and greenhouse gas inventory
Ernst-Detlef Schulze ML (Jena)
4.10 pm — 4.30 pm
Human appropriation of net primary production
Christian Lauk (Wien)
4.30 pm — 5.00 pm
Coffee break
5.00 pm — 5.30 pm
Microalgae - an alternative energy source in future?
Rainer Buchholz (Erlangen)
5.30 pm — 6.00 pm
Use of microalgae for the production of energy carriers
Ulrike Schmid-Staiger (Stuttgart)
6.00 pm — 6.30 pm
Eco- and energy balances of bioethanol production
Thomas Senn (Hohenheim)
6.30 pm — 7.00 pm
General Discussion
7.00 pm — 8.30 pm
Dinner
8.30 pm — 9.15 pm
Net primary production of marine micro algae
Victor Smetacek (Bremerhaven)
Friday, October 15, 2010
Conversion of biomass into fuels
Chair: Bernhard Schink ML (Konstanz)
8.30 am — 9.00 am
Practical experience with large-scale ethanol production in a tropical country
Joao Jornada (Rio de Janeiro)
9.00 am — 9.30 am
Socio-economic and ecological implications of large-scale production of energy crops in Brazil. A case study on ethanol
Gerd Kohlhepp (Tübingen)
9.30 am — 10.00 am
Butanol fermentation - The scientific perspective
Peter Dürre (Ulm)
10.00 am — 10.30 am
Butanol fermentation - The industrial perspective
Ulrich Kettling (München)
10.30 am — 11.00 am
Coffee break
11.00 am — 11.30 am
Biotechnology of anaerobic processes: industry perspectives
Thomas Schäfer (Copenhagen)
11.30 am — 12.00 pm
Biogas production from agricultural feedstocks: bottlenecks and necessary process improvements
Peter Weiland (Braunschweig)
12.00 pm — 12.30 pm
Conversion of algal biomass to biodiesel - efficiency and economic and environmental implications
H. Chris Greenwell (Durham)
12.30 pm — 1.00 pm
Biofuels versus hydrocarbons - new chemistry towards new pollutants
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus ML (Bielefeld)
1.00 pm — 1.30 pm
General Discussion
1.30 pm — 3.00 pm
Lunch
Biological and bio-inspired solar H2 production
Chair: Bärbel Friedrich ML (Berlin/Greifswald)
3.00 pm — 3.30 pm
Biological catalysts involved in biosolar hydrogen production
Wolfgang Lubitz (Mülheim)
3.30 pm — 4.00 pm
A cyanobacterium design cell for the production of H2
Matthias Rögner (Bochum)
4.00 pm — 4.30 pm
Enhancement of hydrogen production with green algae
Thomas Happe (Bochum)
4.30 pm — 5.00 pm
Coffee break
5.00 pm — 5.30 pm
Chemical catalysts for a water splitting system
Holger Dau (Berlin)
5.30 pm — 6.00 pm
Model compounds of the FeFe hydrogenase active site
Leif Hammarström (Uppsala)
6.00 pm — 6.30 pm
Noble metal-free catalytic nanomaterials for H2 production and uptake
Vincent Artero (Grenoble)
6.30 pm — 7.00 pm
General Discussion
7.00 pm — 8.30 pm
Dinner
8.30 pm — 9.15 pm
Sustainable Energies: Workable Solutions or Expensive Toys?
Gerd Ganteför (Konstanz)
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Working group
9.00 am — 14.00 am
Conceptual design of the report