"PFAS ban: urgent tasks for applied research"

The SETAC Europe 33rd Annual Meeting is held in Dublin, Ireland from 30 April - 4 May 2023 and hosts scientists from Europe and overseas. Biologists and chemists from Fraunhofer IME are contributing to the meeting with several presentations and posters presenting their scientific network research.
Please find here selected presentrations.
Brazilian - German Workshop | Innovation potential for valorized cascade use of by-products from juice production - InVaKaS
The one week “InVaKaS” workshop with experts from Brazil and Germany, intends to map the value chain and to develop new research ideas for valorization and cascade use contributing to the sustainability transition of value chains. The workshop takes place from 20.3. to 26.3.2023 in Bahia, Brazil and aims to engage various stakeholders along the value chain to elaborate new project ideas. Tuesday, 21.03.2023 will be organized as a hybrid event and welcomes every person interested in this topic. The workshop language will be English.
Nuremberg, Germany, 27.6. - 30.6.2022
The German Rubber Conference and International Rubber Conference is the meeting place for the global rubber and elastomer industry. The two pillars of the conference -the scientific lecture program and the trade exhibition- attract around 3000 visitors to the Nuremberg Exhibition Center every three years. With a one-year delay due to the pandemic, this year around 250 exhibitors will present their new rubber-related products and services. Since DKT 2018, the Science Campus has been an integral part of the trade exhibition as an exchange and presentation platform for renowned research institutes and groups.
This year, scientists from the Fraunhofer IME in Münster, together with colleagues from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS and the Fraunhofer Pilot Plant Center for Polymer Synthesis and Processing PAZ, will be presenting, among other things, the results of the "Biomimetic Synthetic Rubber BISYKA" cooperation project. Learn how the researchers have succeeded in producing lower-abrasion test tires without losing grip (wet grip) or low rolling resistance. Uur experts on site, Boje Müller and Christian Schulze Gronover, were available for lively exchange with visitors.
15 - 19 May 2022 | Copenhagen, Denmark + Online
The SETAC Europe 32st Annual Meeting "Towards a reduced pollution society" is held in Copenhagen, Denmark from 15th - 19th May 2022 and hosts scientists from Europe and overseas. Biologists and chemists from Fraunhofer IME are contributing to the meeting with several presentations and posters presenting their scientific network research.
Please find here selected presentrations.
September 15.-19., 2021 | online
SPhERe is an interdisciplinary forum to comprehensively discuss current and future trends in the production of effective and customized drugs in a cost-efficient manner with experts from academia and industry. The topics of the symposium cover the entire value chain, from the active pharmaceutical ingredient to the development of the custom-fit formulation.
On the opening day, Fraunhofer IME researcher Boje Müller from the Münster location reported as an invited speaker about the research of the Isoprenoids group. The focus was on the production of special plant metabolites for the pharmaceutical industry. "The progress we have made in recent years is enormous. The BMBF-funded ASPIRANT project (link) helps us take another step towards application," explained group leader Christian Schulze Gronover.
The SETAC Europe 31st Annual Meeting “We're presenting!” is held as a virtual conference from 3rd - 6th May 2021 and hosts scientists from Europe and overseas. Biologists and chemists from Fraunhofer IME are contributing to the meeting with several oral presentations and posters presenting their scientific network research.
Please find here selected presentrations.
20th - 22nd April 2021, Virtual Conference
The NanoTox is an international expert conference aimed at employees from research and teaching, industry, authorities and companies who deal with nanotechnology and its risk assessment for humans and the environment.
Link to NanoTox2021.
Fraunhofer IME Poster:
Hund-Rinke et al: Environmental grouping and read-across for nanomaterials - are the properties defined by ECHA sufficient regarding green algae?
Hund-Rinke et al: Experiences with a higher tier test design simulating environmental fate and effect of medical products after the use phase.
This information will be updated continuously. Poster will be published here after the conference.
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