
Wed, 27 February – IBMC, Rua do Campo Alegre, 823
17.00 Registration
18.00 – Opening Session / IEA round-table Thu, 28 February – IBMC, Rua do Campo Alegre, 823 Country reports
09.00 – 09.30 Michael Seibert (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA) USA Country Report
09.30 – 10.00 Alfons J.M. Stams (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) The biological water shift reaction for synthesis gas purification 10.00 -10.30 Coffee break Country reports
10.30 – 11.00 Rüdiger Schulz-Friedrich (Christian-Albrechts-Univ, Germany) Progress Report: BioHydrogen in Germany
11.00 – 11.30 Jaakko Puhakka (Tampere Univeristy of Technology, Finland) Hydrogen production by thermophiles
11.30 – 12.30 Discussion
12.30 – 14-00 Lunch
Country reports
14.00 – 14.20 Peter Lindblad (Uppsala University, Sweden) Regulation of the cyanobacterial bidirectional hydrogenase
14.20 – 14.40 Anita Sellstedt (Umeå University, Sweden) Biodiversity of hydrogenases in Frankia
14.40 – 15.10 Patrick C. Hallenbeck (Université de Montréal, Canada) Dark Hydrogen Fermentation Research in Canada; Recent Progress
15.10 – 15.40 SY Wu (Feng Chia University, Taiwan) Biohydrogen Production R&D in Taiwan
15.40 – 16.10 Masamitsu Tomiyama (National Inst. of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan) Biohydrogen of MAFF project, Japan
16.10-16.40 Coffee break
OA presentation16.40 – 17.20 Jun Miyake (OA, Japan) Japan NEDO-international project of phototrophic biohydrogen combined with termophiles
17.20 Discussion
20.00 Dinner at “Casa Agrícola” R. do Bom Sucesso 241/243 4150-150 Porto
Fri, 29 February – Círculo Univ. do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 877
09.00 – 09.30 José J. G. Moura (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Hydrogenase – from structure to biotechnology
09.30 – 10.00 Alfonso Jaramillo (Ecole Polytechnique, France) Presentation of the EU project-BioModular H2
10.00-10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 11.00 Arnau Montagud (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain) Metabolic flux analysis for hydrogen production in BioModularH2
11.00 – 11.15 Ricardo Carvalho (FCUP, Portugal) Metabolicvisualizer.org - a simplified metabolic simulator
11.15 – 11.55 Arnaud Taton (Virgínia Commonwealth University, USA) CyanoBIKE, a web based biology-specific environment for comparative genomics and integration of cyanobacterial knowledge
12.15 Lunch