Date: Friday 04 april 2025
Venue: Grauwzusters convent, UAntwerpen
Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium (close to Central railway station)
Program
13:00 – 13.45 Registration, coffee.
Part I: Symposium: The quest for highly conductive proteins
13:45 – 14.00 Welcome. Prof. Filip Meysman, University of Antwerp
14:00 – 14.40: Prof. Allon Hochbaum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Irvine (USA),“Natural and bioinspired conductive protein wires from rock breathing microbes”
14:40 – 15.20: Prof. Aitziber Cortajarena, CIC biomaGUNE, San Sebastian (Spain), Coordinator EIC pathfinder project E-Prot, “Engineering Protein-Based Biomaterials for applications in Biocatalysis and Bioelectronics, Sensing, Imaging and Therapy”
15:20 – 16.00: Prof. Noémie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne, Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University (Canada), Canada Research Chair in Biologically-Derived Materials, “Conductive self-assembled protein-based materials applicable to real-world problems”
16:00 – 16.45. Coffee break / refreshments.
Part II: Prigogine medal: award ceremony and lecture
Professor Ilya Prigogine, Belgian Professor at the Free University of Brussels seen at the blackboard taking a class. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and Physics in 1977. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
16:45 – 17:00. Prigogine medal (in honour and memory of Prof. Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry), awarded to Prof. Filip Meysman (UAntwerpen) by Prof. Giorgio Passerini (Universitá Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona)
17:00 – 17.45: Prof. Filip Meysman, Excellence Centre for Microbial Systems Technology, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Coordinator EIC pathfinder project PRINGLE
Prigogine Medal Lecture: “Where biology meets physics: how bacteria discovered electricity way before Alessandro Volta”
17:45. Reception (drinks and nibbles).
20:00 End
Participation is free, but registration is obliged.
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