Theme of the symposium: Biomineralization
The DACG Annual meeting will take place as part of a one-day symposium.
During the meeting the Piet Bennema Award for Crystal Growth 2018 will be presented.
| Preliminary program | |
| 09:30 | Registration and coffe/tea |
| 10:00 | Welcome and introduction Hans te Nijenhuis / Cees Buisman |
| 10:15 | Keynote: Biocrystallization for resource recovery and environmental protection Jan Weijma (WUR-ETE) |
| 11:00 | Controlling properties of sulfur particles formed in biological gas desulfurization Annemerel Mol (WUR / WETSUS) |
| 11:30 | Crystallization by particle attachment is a colloidal assembly process Giulia Mirabello (TU Eindhoven) |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 12:45 | Annual meeting (parallel: labtour for participants not attending the DACG annual meeting) |
| 14:00 | KNCV Piet Bennema Award for Crystal Growth Announcement prize winner by jury (Tom Leyssens c.s.) |
| 14:15 | Pathway complexity in CaCO3 crystallization Nico Sommerdijk (TU Eindhoven) on behalf of the prize winner of the KNCV Piet Bennema Award for Crystal Growth |
| 14:45 | Anaerobic calcium phosphate biogranulation Ricardo Cunha (WUR / WETSUS) |
| 15:15 | Coffee/tea break |
| 15:30 | Exploiting bisphosphonate-bioactive glass interactions for development of bone regenerative biomaterials Mani Diba (TU Eindhoven) |
| 16:00 | Labtour, followed by drinks / nibbles |
| 17:30 | End of program |
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