Biologie | Kolloquien | Vortrag

Symposium “Metals in Biology: Past, Present, Future”

Time
Friday, 8. September 2023
10:00 - 17:00

Location
University of Konstanz, M 629

Organizer
Prof. Peter Kroneck, Department of Biology

Speaker:
Various

This event is part of an event series „Symposium“.

Important: please confirm your participation by mail (peter.kroneck@uni-konstanz.de) latest by August 25, 2023. See you on September 8 !

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome from the Organizers


Session 1: Chair Julia Fritz-Steuber
10:15 – 10:45 Fraser Armstrong (University of Oxford): Electrocatalysis by nanoconfined enzyme cascades opens a new multidisciplinary field
10:45 – 11:15 Jörg Simon (TU Darmstadt) : Microbial respiration of nitrite, sulphite and laughing gas
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break


Session 2: Chair Oliver Einsle
11:45 – 12:15 Kristian Parey (Universität Osnabrück): A journey through the world of biological energy conservation starting in Konstanz
12:15 – 12:35 Frithjof Küpper (University of Aberdeen): Halogen metabolism of marine algae
12:35 – 12:55 Hendrik Küpper (Czech Academy of Sciences): Trace metal metabolism in plants
12 :55 – 14:00 Break (Mensa)


Session 3: Chair Günter Fritz
14:00 – 14:10 Frank Neese (MPI Mülheim): Some confessions of a failed biologist
14:10 – 14:40 Oliver Einsle (Universität Freiburg): Fischer Tropsch chemistry in the Haber Bosch enzyme - is that a thing?
14:40 – 15:10 Lin Zhang (Universität Freiburg): Nitrous oxide reductase: the inherited, the laughing, and what matters?
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Session 4: Chair Jörg Simon
15:30 – 16:00 Julia Fritz-Steuber (Universität Hohenheim): Iron, sulfur, flavin and sodium: an explosive mixture in bacteria
16:00 - 16:30 Günter Fritz (Universität Hohenheim): Think zinc or take calcium: non redox metals are fun, too
16:30 Peter Kroneck (Universität Konstanz): Closing