"The significance of extremophiles for the development of a sustainable bio-economy"

Il 04/09/2013 ore 14.30 - 15.30

Aula seminari IBP, 3° piano Istituto di Biochimica delle Proteine, CNR Via P. Castellino, 111 80131 Napoli

Prof. Garabed Antranikian from the Hamburg University of Technology TUHH, Germany studied Biology at the American University in Beirut. At the University of Göttingen he completed his PhD in Microbiology in 1980 and qualified as a post-doctoral lecturer in 1988.In 1989 he was appointed to a professorship in Microbiology at the Hamburg University of Technology where he has been the head of the Institute of Technical Microbiology since 1990. From 1993 to 1999 he coordinated the EU network project Extremophiles. From 2000 to 2003 Prof. Antranikian coordinated the national network project Biocatalysis and is coordinating the Innovation Center Biokatalyse since 2002. He was president of the International Society for Extremophiles and is chief editor of the scientific journal Extremophiles. In 2004 he was awarded the most prestigious prize for environment protection by the president of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 2007 he is the coordinator of the "Biocatalysis2021" Cluster and the „Biorefinery2021" Cluster of the Ministry of Education and Research and he is chairman of IBN Industrial Biotechnology North. He is member of the Academy of Sciences of Hamburg and member of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences. He was vice president for academic affairs from 2009 to 2011 before he became president of Hamburg University of Technology in April 2011.

Organizzato da:
CNR, IBP

Referente organizzativo:
Mosè Rossi
CNR - Istituto di biochimica delle proteine
Via P. Castellino, 111 Napoli
m.rossi@ibp.cnr.it
081/6132270

Modalità di accesso: ingresso libero