TSB: Foreign Researchers Forum

12.04.2011

Foreign Researchers Forum - Networking Opportunities in Berlin: Focus on Biotechnology

12. April 2011 | 18:00 Uhr - 21:30 Uhr

Topic for the TSB's Foreign Researchers Forum on the 12th April 2011 is Biotechnology, presenting BioTOP, which manages biotechnology as an area of excellence in Berlin-Brandenburg and selected current research projects.

The TSB Technologiestiftung Berlin organises the English-language event, „Foreign Researchers Forum" to introduce guest researchers and professors, as well as post-docs and students from abroad to some of the region's key stakeholders and projects and to present their own current research topics.

The three Forums planned for 2011 will focus on the Life Sciences in Berlin to mark the German Year of Science 2011, "Forschung für unsere Gesundheit" (Research for our Health).

Focus on Biotechnology

On the 12th April 2011 the focus will be on biotechnology, Dr. Kai Bindseil, director of BioTOP, which manages biotechnology as an area of excellence in Berlin-Brandenburg will give an overview of activities in the region followed by short presentations on research projects being carried out by guest researchers in Berlin.

The Forums are open to all and admission is free.

Please register by email or online if you will attend.
We look forward to seeing you there!

Programme:

• 18:00 Registration
  
  
• 18:15 Introduction: Mr. Morgan Delaney, TSB Technologiestiftung Berlin
  
  
• 18:30 Biotechnology in Berlin-Brandenburg: Dr. Kai Bindseil, BioTOP Berlin-Brandenburg
  
  
• 18:50 Selection of presentations on biotechnology-related research
  
  Nicolas Ismael Meneses Villalobos (Chile)
  Department of Food Biotechnology and Food Process Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin
  
  "International and National Food Related Research Projects On Pulsed Electric Field Processing"
  
  Lufang Yang, Ph.D. (China)
  Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Technische Universität Berlin
  
  "Biosynthesis of poly-unsaturated fatty acids by the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica"
  
  Jean-Paul Ouedraogo, Ph.D. (Burkina Faso)
  Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Technische Universität Berlin
  
  "Survival strategies of yeast and filamentous fungi against the antifungal protein AFP"
  
  Beren Atac (Turkey)
  Medical Biotechnology Department, Technische Universität Berlin & Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  
  "Multi-Organ-Chip for Substance Testing"

• 20:00 Questions and discussion time

• 20:15 Buffet and get together
  
  

Forums are also being planned for:

• Tuesday, 05th of July - Medical technology (with Dr. Helmut Kunze, Head of Department Medical Engineering, TSB Innovationsagentur Berlin GmbH)

• Tuesday, 27th of September - the region's health care industry (with Harald Mylord, Co-ordinator of network health industries, Health Capital)

You can find more information including on previous Forums on our website:
http://www.technologiestiftung-berlin.de/de/technologiestiftung/leistungsangebot/internationales/foreign-researchers-forum/

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