9th Symposium on “Microalgae and Seaweed Products in Plant/Soil-Systems” in Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary

25 Jun 2019, 08:00 → 26 Jun 2019, 16:00 Europe/Budapest

Phare/1-0 - Auditorium (SZE MEK)

We cordially invite you to participate in the 9th Symposium on “Microalgae and Seaweed Products in Plant/Soil-Systems” to be held in Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary, 25-26 June 2019. Scientists from Europe and other continents in the field of potential and practical use of algae for plant and/or soil treatment will be attending.

The Symposium will be focused on the “SABANA” project funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
(http://www.eu-sabana.eu).

The main topics of the Symposium will cover the following areas:
1. New Tools for Microalgae Biotechnology
2. Plant Bio-stimulants
3. Antimicrobial Compounds and Bio-pesticides from Microalgae
4. Photobioreactors for Agricultural Purposes: Pilot and Large Scale Construction and Operation

The organisers intend to organise the 9th Symposium to bring together:
1. Scientists who have experience in plant production, using different compounds with plant bio-stimulating effects.
2. Scientists who have been investigating the effects of microalgae and seaweed in plant/soil-systems.
3. Bioengineers of microalgae cultivation-production.
4. Chief scientists or managers of companies, who are marketing microalgal or seaweed products.

Presentations will be held by prominent keynote speakers on fields of:
- plant growth regulation and plant production
- microalgae and seaweed, which can be used for plant improvement and influence of plant/soil-systems
- technical aspects of microalgae cultivation and production

Please attend, present your results and new findings, become acquainted with our experience in the field of freshwater cyanobacteria and microalgae for agricultural purposes, and discuss new methods which may contribute to microalgal biotechnology.

With best regards from the Symposium organisers and we hope to see you soon.

Prof. Dr. Vince Ördög
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Széchenyi István University, Hungary
ordog.vince@sze.hu

Prof. Dr. Franciso Gabriel Acién Fernández
University of Almeria, Spain
facien@ual.es

 

Tuesday, 25 June

08:00 → 10:00 Registration and Poster Mounting

10:00 → 10:20 Greeting of Participants and Opening the 9th Symposium on Microalgae and Seaweed Products

Speaker: Prof. Vince Ördög (Mosonmagyaróvár)

10:20 → 10:50 Microalgae biotechnology – past present and future (tentative)

Speaker: Prof. Emilio Molina Grima (Spain)

10:50 → 11:20 New situation in the authorization of yield enhancers in the EU

Speaker: Dr Gábor Tőkés

11:20 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:00 Plant and algae hormonomic – profiling on tissue and cellular level

Speaker: Prof. Miroslav Strnad (Czech Republic)

12:00 → 12:30 Exploitation of algal-bacterial consortia in combined resource recovery and biohydrogen generation

Speaker: Dr Gergely Maróti (Szeged)

12:30 → 13:10 Buffet Lunch (snacks, sandwiches, refreshments)

13:10 → 13:30 Effect of singlet oxygen on gene expression profile in Synechocystis PCC6803

Speaker: Ms Hódi Barbara (Szeged)

13:30 → 13:50 Establishment of a simple screening system for photosynthetic traits of microalgae and cyanobacteria

Speaker: Ms Priyanka Patil (Szeged)

13:50 → 14:10 Assessment of intracellular singlet oxygen by GFP fluorescence in Synechocystis PCC 6803

Speaker: Mr Gábor Patyi (Szeged)

14:10 → 14:30 Algal phenotyping - agricultural and industrial applications

Speaker: Dr Milán Szabó (Szeged)

14:30 → 14:50 Coffee Break

14:50 → 15:20 Role of smoke- and seaweed-derived compounds in improving growth and biochemical composition of spinach and cabbage crops

Speaker: Prof. Johannes Van Staden (South Africa)

15:20 → 15:50 Microalgae as biostimulant: field results and biochemical approach

Speaker: Dr Átila Francisco Mógor (Brasil)

15:50 → 16:50 Round Table Discussion and Poster Session

18:00 → 18:30 Folklore Show

(at the Venue of the Symposium)

18:30 → 22:00 Dinner

(at the Venue of the Symposium)
Sorry to inform that alcoholic beverages will not be served free of charge

Wednesday, 26 June

08:00 → 09:00 Poster Session

09:00 → 09:20 Application of microalgae-containing bio-fertilizer in maize

Speaker: Mr Csaba Bojtor (Debrecen)

09:20 → 09:40 Extracellular polysaccharides in twenty Chlamydomonas strains of the Mosonmagyaróvár Algal Culture Collection

Speaker: Mr Nándor Horváth (Mosonmagyaróvár)

09:40 → 10:00 Seaweed bio-stimulants for plant growth

Speaker: Dr Mangaiyarkarasi Ravirajan (India)

10:00 → 10:20 Plant biostimulating effects of the green alga Tetracystis sp. on winter wheat in field experiments

Speaker: Ms Georgina Takács (Mosonmagyaróvár)

10:20 → 10:40 Effect of Arthrospira platensis on the growth and condition of nursery plants

Speaker: Mr Jácint Tóth (Mosonmagyaróvár)

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 Microalgae against necrotroph and biotroph plant fungal pathogens

Speaker: Prof. Vince Ördög (Mosonmagyaróvár)

11:30 → 12:00 Microalgae for heavy metal removal

Speaker: Prof. Pengcheng Fu (China)

12:00 → 12:20 In vitro antifungal activity of selected freshwater and marine cyanobacteria strains

Speaker: Mr Áron Horváth (Budapest)

12:20 → 12:40 Myxoxanthophylls – carotenoid glycosides from cyanobacteria and their specific optical and antioxidant properties

Speaker: Dr Przemysław Malec (Poland)

12:40 → 13:20 Buffet Lunch (snacks, sandwiches, refreshments)

13:20 → 13:50 Challenges in the production of microalgae in large scale

Speaker: Prof. Gabriel Acien (Spain)

13:50 → 14:20 Outdoor pilot-scale cultivation of selected microalgae in municipal wastewater: thin-layer cascades and raceways

Speaker: Prof. Jiri Masojidek (Czech Republic)

14:20 → 14:40 Electrocoagulation – a smart way to minimize microalgae harvesting cost

Speaker: Ms Irena Branyikova (Czech Republic)

14:40 → 15:00 Salt stress adaptation of biotechnologically important microalgal strains

Speaker: Ms Sai Divya Kanna (Szeged)

15:00 → 15:30 Round Table Discussion - Closing of the 9th Symposium on Microalgae and Seaweed Products

Speakers: Prof. Emilio Molina Grima (Spain) , Prof. Vince Ördög (Mosonmagyaróvár)