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European Symposium on Biochemical Engineering Sciences (ESBES) 2016

11-14 September 2016, Dublin, Ireland

ESBES 2016 is shaping up to be an exciting conference with a packed programme of

• plenaries
• invited keynotes
• over 117 presentations in four parallel sessions
• over 100 poster presentations
• pre-conference workshop – QBD Related Modelling and Control Strategies
• Raw Materials Forum
• writing workshop
• BEJ Young Investigator Award
• Jobs Forum – companies can see their employees of the future and students will have the opportunity to share their CV and engage with future employers

Plenary speakers are:

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, chief executive officer, Steve Bagshaw, who pose the question of a global bioeconomy and what is our role?

Professor Massimo Morbidelli (Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Advisory Board member) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich will be highlighting efficiency gains and cost savings in the biopharmaceutical sector.

Professor Lisbeth Olsson, from the department of Biology and Biological Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, will examine current challenges and opportunities associated with designing new processes for a bio-based economy.

View the full programme and register now to secure your place

BEJ Young Investigator Award

The editors of the Biochemical Engineering Journal, in cooperation with the ESBES Society, are very pleased to announce the selection of Peter M Tessier as the recipient of the 2016 Award.

Sponsoring and exhibiting

Does your organisation want to exhibit? Join exhibitors:

Icenta | HEL | Eppindorf | Broadley James | Irish Power and Process | Bilfinger | m2p-Labs

to raise you profile, brand recognition as well as taking to future purchasing clients, email to sign-up.

Date: 15 – 16 June 2016

Venue:  Intercontinental London – The O2

Chemistry Means Business is our annual two-day event for industry, uniting SMEs, multinational organisations, investors, academic entrepreneurs and decision makers from across the UK and Europe.

View more details and full programme

Over two days:

1 Discover the best ways to commercialise new technologies, build a sound financial strategy and develop your business skills through more than 20 talks, workshops and panel discussions.

2 Find out what GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, P&G, Unilever, Croda and Mondelēz are looking for from SME and academic partnerships when they share their technology and supply chain needs on day 2.

3 Hear innovative small companies and university entrepreneurs’ present new technologies in health & wellbeing, energy & environment, food & water and materials sectors to expert panels as part of our Emerging Technologies Competition final – find out who wins in the evening.

4 Use structured networking sessions and one-to-one meetings to form new partnerships, discuss potential relationships and make connections to strengthen your business.

5 Discover new services, specifically created to support scientific companies and early stage businesses. Save time, improve efficiency, and find out what others are doing in four key industry sectors.

Tickets are available until 30 May, so there’s still time to secure your place.

#ChemMeansBusiness

The next event of the IMRET “International Conferences on MicroREaction Technology” conference series will be held in the historic city of Beijing, China in September 12-14, 2016.

IMRET14 will be hosted by Tsinghua University, and co-hosted by Dailian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The IMRET is a scientific conference in the field of micro process engineering and the sciences of microreactors that started in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1997. Since then, thirteen IMRET conferences have been organized by various well recognized societies and institutes. By organizing IMRET14, the committee aims to strengthen the multidisciplinary communication in the field of micro-process technology, and to facilitate its integration into everyday practices throughout the world by delivering the latest knowledge and making it available for the entire community.

Find out more and register now.

The 4th Zing Continuous Flow Chemistry Conference was held in in Albufeira, Portugal between 25th – 28th April 2016.

The Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Best Poster Prize was awarded on the last night at the Farewell dinner. We are very pleased to announce that the winner is:

Frank Leibfarth (MIT) for his poster entitled

“Flow-IEG: Scalable Synthesis of Sequence and Architecturally Defined, Unimolecular Macromolecules”

Congratulations to Frank!

Best poster prize winner Frank Leibfarth with plenary speaker, poster judge and Reaction Chemistry and Engineering Editorial Board member Joel Hawkins (Pfizer)

4th Zing Continuous Flow Chemistry Conference

25th – 28th April 2016, Albufeira, Portugal

Following on from 3 previously successful Microwave & Flow Chemistry Conferences, the 4th Zing Continuous Flow Chemistry Conference will take place between 25th – 28th April 2016 in Albufeira, Portugal.

Flow chemistry has transformed the way in which chemists think about reaction development, synthesis, and manufacturing. This conference will bring together scientists from academia and industry to discuss developments in all aspects of continuous flow chemistry. Topics will include new technologies and paradigms that are enabling flow chemistry along with new chemical methods and synthetic processes enabled by flow chemistry. The conference will be of interest to scientists in academia and any industry that implements chemical synthesis.

Speakers include Klavs Jensen, Peter Seeberger, Corey Stephenson, Jun-ichi Yoshida and Joel Hawkins.

Register now