Book of abstracts

s ............................................................................................................................... 7 Session A1: Social implications of synthetic biology in energy production ............................. 8 Synthetic biology and its political and social context .......................................... 9 Synthetic biology – The next phase of biotechnology and genetic engineering .. 9 Phase out model Homo Sapiens ......................................................................10 The bioeconomy and land grabs in Latin America – Experiences and outlook ..10 Can synthetic biology really make biofuels more sustainable? .........................11 Biotechnology and financial markets ................................................................11 Session A2: Bioeconomy workshop – Future trade-offs between alternative biomass resources .........................................................................................................12 AFASYS (Agrar-Forst-Aquatische Systeme der Zukunft) – Vision of a sustainable agricultural system .........................................................................12 Session A3: From energy transition to bioeconomy – Challenges for the governance of sustainable material flows ................................................................................14 Bioeconomy – Opportunity for a sustainable society?.......................................15 Challenges to sustainable biomass supply .......................................................15 Economic and legal challenges of the transition towards a sustainable woodbased bioeconomy ...........................................................................................15 Sustainability evaluation tools as governance instruments in the bioeconomy ..16 Session B1: Microbial processes for recovery of critical metals from secondary resources ..17 Reductive bioleaching for metal recovery from oxide ores ................................17 Metallophores selectively bind metals ..............................................................18 Correlative microscopy for analysing dissolution of minerals and electron transfer processes as a key step for development of bio-mining concepts ........18 Speciation analysis – A tool for identification and quantification of metal compounds .......................................................................................................19 Sessions B2 and B3: Industrial biotechnology concepts making use of renewable resources .........................................................................................................................20 Biosyngas production and its advanced chemical and biochemical use: I. Syngas production from biomass .....................................................................20 Biosyngas production and its advanced chemical and biochemical use: II. Microbial production of platform chemicals from syngas ...................................21 Microbial resources mining for primary microbial electrochemical technologies 21 Malic acid production from glycerol with Ustilago trichophora ...........................22 Lignin biorefinery: Novel enzymes for selective ether bond cleavage ...............22 High value from specialized plant natural products: From source to biocatalytic conversion ........................................................................................................23 Biotechnological concepts for chemical and polymer production in the context of bioeconomy ......................................................................................................24