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20.11.2025

New lecture series on Bioeconomy from January 2026 by the RIGeL Graduate Colloquium group

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The RIGeL Graduate Colloquium group is launching a new lecture series on the topic of Bioeconomy in January 2026!
 
The term bioeconomy refers to a modern and sustainable form of economic activity based on the efficient use of biological resources such as plants, animals and microorganisms. This requires highly innovative approaches to utilization.
The bioeconomy covers all industrial and economic sectors that use renewable biological resources to manufacture products and provide services using innovative biological and technological knowledge and processes. This includes all industries that produce, process or use biological resources in any form, such as agriculture and forestry, energy, fisheries and aquaculture, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, food, industrial biotechnology, cosmetics, paper and textiles, and environmental protection. (source: https://biooekonomie.de/en/topics/about-the-bioeconomy)
 
In our lecture series on Bioeconomy, several researchers will give interesting presentations on various topics.
 
 
A preview of the upcoming program:
 
 
14.01.2026: Prof. Dr. Daniela Thrän (Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ, former member of the German Federal Government's Bioeconomy Council): What is Bioeconomy?
 
28.01.2026: Dr. Tobias May (inscreenex GmbH): Functional Immortalization for the Generation of Personalized Cell Systems
 
24.03.2026: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hamann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU): Hydrosensing: How plants sense and adapt to water stress
 
16.06.2026: Dr. Julius Che Ngwa (Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME): Cultured meat industry
 
October 2026: Prof. Dr. Aline Koch (University of Regensburg): Plant protection with RNA-spray
 
 
Image credits title image: Florian Sänger für BMBF (https://biooekonomie.de/en/topics/about-the-bioeconomy)
Image credits poster image: Infographic from the Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy describing bioeconomy (https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/bioeconomy/about_en)