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Programme
Venue: Theatrette, CREATE Tower, 1 CREATE Way, UTown, Singapore 138602
Download Plastics Symposium 2024 Programme booklet
Plenary = 30 minutes; Keynote = 20 minutes; Invited/Contributed = 15 minutes (including Q&A)
| Time | Event Schedule | Speaker | Title |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Registration | ||
| 14:00 – 14:05 | Welcome Remarks by Sierin Lim, Chair, Plastics Symposium | ||
| 14:05 – 14:15 | Opening Remarks by Warren Chan, Dean, College of Engineering, NTU Singapore | ||
| Session 1 – Plastic Waste to Value | |||
| 14:15 – 15:45 | Keynote | Sally McArthur | Tailoring Polymer and Composite Recycling Solutions for Different Industry Sectors |
| Invited | DUONG Hai Minh | From Plastic Waste to Wealth | |
| Invited | LI Hong | Co-upcycling of PET Plastic and Glycerol Wastes | |
| Invited | Christopher Hurren | Developing Sustainable Textile Fibres from Sea Grass and Food Waste | |
| Keynote | HU Xiao | Chemical Recycling of Plastics: Recent Case Study and Initiatives | |
| 15:45 – 16:30 | Coffee/Tea Break and Poster Session | ||
| Session 2 – Polymer Design and Challenges | |||
| 16:30 – 17:45 | Keynote | Atsushi Goto | Sustainable and Functional Polymers and Materials Using Biobased and Degradable Monomers |
| Invited | LAM Yeng Ming | Polymer Recycling - Some Considerations | |
| Invited | Joanne Ngeow | Plastics and Healthcare | |
| Keynote | CAO Bin | Plastisphere Biofilm: A Natural Hazard or An Engineering Solution? | |
| 17:45 – 19:30 | Reception and Poster Session (Seminar Room) | ||
Venue: Theatrette, CREATE Tower, 1 CREATE Way, UTown, Singapore 138602
Download Plastics Symposium 2024 Programme booklet
Plenary = 30 minutes; Keynote = 20 minutes; Invited/Contributed = 15 minutes (including Q&A)
| Time | Event Schedule | Speaker | Title |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Registration | ||
| Session 3 – Bio-based Plastic Degradation | |||
| 9:15 – 10:45 | Plenary | Alain Marty | PLA Composting & PET Recycling: from Enzymes and Process Optimizations to Industrial Plants |
| Contributed | Sukanya Punthambaker | Plastic Degradation Using Enzymes and Microbes | |
| Keynote | Karine Auclair | Plastic Deconstruction by Enzymes in Moist-solids | |
| Keynote | Vanessa Vongsouthi | Scalable Chemoenzymatic Recycling of Plastics | |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee/Tea Break and Poster Session | ||
| Session 4 – Enzymes for Plastics Degradation: New and Engineered | |||
| 11:15 – 13:00 | Keynote | YEOM Soo-Jin | Exploring a New Biocatalyst for Plastic Biodegradation |
| Invited | YEW Wen Shan | Repurposing Biology through Synthetic Enzymology for Human and Planetary Health | |
| Invited | Farid Ghadessy | Thermostabilising PETase for Increased Robustness | |
| Contributed | Subha Kalyaanamoorthy | Transforming Plastic Waste: Computational Advances in Enzyme Engineering | |
| Keynote | CUI Yinglu | Computational redesign of a hydrolase for nearly complete PET depolymerization at industrially relevant high-solids loading | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch and Poster Session | ||
| Session 5 – Organisms for Plastics Conversion: Native and Engineered | |||
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Keynote | Federica Bertocchini | Insects and Bioremediation: Wax Worm Enzymes versus Plastic Waste Accumulation |
| Contributed | Bodhi Dharma | Several Promising Actinobacteria-Plastics-Degraders Isolated from East Kalimantan, Indonesia | |
| Invited | ZHOU Kang | Engineering Escherichia coli to Utilize Diols Derived from Plastic Wastes | |
| Contributed | CHUA Yuen Siong | Upcycling of PET Monomers through Metabolic Engineering of Pichia pastoris | |
| Contributed | Jasmine Ikraminaningsih | Isolation and Performance Evaluation of Polypropylene-Degrading Bacteria from the Gut Microbiome of Tenebrio molitor Larvae | |
| Keynote | LIM Yee Hwee | Plastics and Sustainability | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee/Tea Break and Poster Session | ||
| Session 6 – Enabling Technologies | |||
| 16:00 – 17:10 | Keynote | Soichiro Tsuda | Discovery of PET-degrading Enzymes from Microbial Single-cell Genome Database |
| Invited | Tristan Bepler | Engineering a Plastic Degrading Enzyme with Protein Language Models and Bayesian Learning | |
| Contributed | Jean-Baptiste Lena | Screening the Enzymatic Degradation of Semi Aromatic Polyesters | |
| Invited | YEO Zhiquan | Eco-Techno-Economic Analysis (Eco-TEA) via Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) | |
| Panel Discussion | |||
| 17:10 – 17:55 | Panel | LIM Yee Hwee, Alain Marty, Keats Nelms, Daniel Tay Moderator: Sierin Lim | Opportunities for Bio-based Plastics Degradation |
| 17:55 – 18:00 | Closing Remarks | ||