Programme
The event date and times are below. The schedule that follows sets out the order of sessions, including presentations, round table discussions, the mini-market, and keynote addresses.
Date
Start Time
End Time
Full day schedule
Walk-in and registration
Opening speech
Prof. Isabel Van Driessche, dean
Introductory talk
Prof. Veerle Cnudde, director of research
Infrastructure clusters and core facilities
- COCOON, Solid State Sciences (Jolien Dendooven) - Nanoscale Coatings for Materials Screening and Surface Functionalization
- UGCT (Matthieu Boone) - UGCT: a UGent Core facility for high-resolution X-ray imaging
- NOLIMITS Core Facility (Pieter Geiregat) - Non-linear Imaging and Spectroscopy
- NMR Expertise Centre (José Martins) - Structure characterisation and molecular analysis in chemical, biochemical, biomedical and materials sciences
- TEM Core Facility (Iwan Moreels) - Supporting your materials or life science research with dedicated TEM measurements and associated sample preparation
Lunch and mini market
Mini market participants:
- Emex - Thomas Hermans: Presenting the Emex core facility
- A&MS - Frank Vanhaecke: ICP MS Solutions - Mapping Elements, Characterizing Nanomaterials, and Measuring Isotope Ratios
- Thomas Naert: Precision CRISPR by AI and unprecedented 3D imaging of fibrotic tissues and cancer
- Manon Minsart: From waste streams to biomedical materials
- Loc Nguyen: Debondable Adhesives for Detachable Electric Vehicle Batteries (DETACH)
- COCOON Research Group: Advanced thin-film coatings and high-throughput materials discovery
- BCCM - Anneleen Wieme en Charlotte Peeters: Unlocking Bacterial Diversity: From Strain Discovery to Biological Resource Management
- BCCM/GeneCorner - Martine Vanhoucke: Supporting biotechnology with biological resources and specialised services
- BCCM Protistology & Aquatic Ecology laboratory; BCCM/DCG Diatom Culture Collection: Unlocking microalgae: from the field, via the lab, to biotechnological & blue growth applications
- Thibault Schutz: BIGTOP: Industrial-Grade Molecular Tagging for (Plastic) Material Traceability and Authentication
- Tommaso Ruggiero: Increasing yield and time efficiency for Energy-Transfer Photocatalysis: A Well-Defined Cu─NHC Complex
- EMBRC+ - Marleen Roelofs & Marleen De Troch: From marine resources to blue innovation: EMBRC Belgium
Round table sessions
2 × 20 minutes, parallel
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Round 1:
- iMATCH : Driving material innovation through imaging (Michèle Kint)
- ChemTech: How can academia and industry co-create better project ideas in chemical technologies? (Valentina Goftman)
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Round 2:
- Microbiology & Industry (Nele Ameloot)
- EMBRC: Innovation inspired by the Ocean (Marleen Roelofs & Marleen De Troch)
Keynote-getuigenissen door bedrijven
- Pierre De Geest (Deme): DEME: 150 years of Innovation
Closing remarks
Prof. Veerle Cnudde, director of research
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