Enzymatic Plastic Degradation

Gert Weber is at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany Prof. Uwe Bornscheuer from Greifswald University is a leading expert in enzymatic lipid modification as documented in numerous peer-reviewed publications, reviews as well as patents. He has received several scientific awards including the Chevreul Medal (French Lipid Society, 2012), the Normann Medal (DGF, Germany, 2014) and the Stephen S. Chang Award (AOCS, 2015). Ren Wei is at Universität Greifswald, Germany

• 1. Evaluating plastic pollution and environmental degradationPia Skoczinski2. Assessment methods for microplastic pollution in the oceans and fresh waterChengjun Sun3. Exploring microbial consortia from various environments for plastic degradationBasak Öztürk and Ingrid Eileen Meyer Cifuentes4. Characterization of filamentous fungi for attack on synthetic polymers via biological Fenton chemistryDietmar Schlosser5. Culturing various mealworms for the degradation of PS/PE and the corresponding analysis of gut microbiotaWei-Min Wu6. Synthesis of radioactive-labeled nanoplastics for assaying the environmental (microbial) PS degradationRong Ji7. Exploring metagenome for plastic degrading enzymesWolfgang Streit8. Cutinases from thermophilic bacteria (actinomycetes): from identification to functional & structural characterization富佐子 河合9. Ideonella sakaiensis & PETase and MHETase: from identification of microbial PET degradation to enzyme characterizationKohei Oda10. Design of novel PETase mutants by machine-learning/AI-based strategyBian Wu11. High throughput screening assays for PET/PU hydrolase activitiesRen Wei12. Methods for evaluating the biodegradability of PETChen Song13. Heterogeneous kinetic analysis of the enzymatic PET hydrolysisThomas Maskow14. Adhesion peptide promoted and selective degradation of mixed plastics for enabling recyclingShohana Subrin Islam15. Adsorption study of plastic degrading enzymes and monomer conversion for synthesis of virgin polymersGeorg M. Guebitz16. Characterization and screening of microbial degradation of PULuc Averous17. Structural and functional characterization of the PET oligomer degrader (MHETase, Carboxylesterases, etc.)Gert Weber and Gottfried J. Palm18. Structural and functional characterization of nylon hydrolasesSeiji Negoro19. Bioprocess engineering for PET recyclingAlain Marty20. Engineering enzymes for embedding in PLA mulching films for rapid environmental degradationAlain Marty21. The use of degraded plastic monomers as substrates for microbial growth and production of biodegradable plastics (and their biodegradation)Tanja Narancic22. Culturing and engineering bacterial strains for up-cycling of plastic degradation productsTill Tiso23. Screening and cultivating microbial strains able to grow on degradation intermediates from polyurethaneChristian Eberlein24. Engineering microalgae as a whole cell biocatalyst for PET degradationDaniel Moog25. Yeast Cell Surface Display Bacterial PETase as a Reusable Biocatalyst for Degradation of Highly Crystallized Polyethylene TerephthalateZefang Wang