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Retrospective: CatchBio symposium 7 Oct

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The second CatchBio symposium was held on 7 October 2010 and had invited Prof Dr Walter Leitner (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) as keynote speaker. "We need to come up with truely new and improved products by using heterogeneous catalysis AND homogeneous catalysis AND biocatalysis."
See the retrospective in photos below.


Birgit Kamm
Prof Dr Birgit Kamm
  Bert WeckhuysenProf Dr Bert Weckhuysen presented his most recent findings on lignin for the first time ever to the CatchBio community.
Wim SoetaertProf Dr Wim Soetaert:  
"Chemical and biochemical catalysis need eachother to make good products. We are moving towards a new synthesis of fossil and bio-based industry."
 
Jens Weitkamp
Prof Dr Jens Weitkamp
Michael Stoecker
Dr Michael Stöcker gave a lecture on wooden based biomass.
 

Prof Dr Walter Leitner:  "We need to come up with truely new and improved products by using heterogeneous catalysis AND homogeneous catalysis AND biocatalysis."
Walter Leitner
 
each lecture posed its own food for discussion among the participants