2018

The Annual Conference of the strategy process »Biotechnology 2020+« is organized in turn by the four major German research organizations since 2015.

The »Potsdam Days on Bioanalysis« 1-2 November in Potsdam-Golm/Germany provide an excellent international platform for researchers, clinicians, and entrepreneurs including healthcare startups to discuss potentials and hot topics in diagnostics and analytics. Key topics include major trends, recent developments, new areas of application, and future markets. The conference is organized by the Cluster Health Capital in cooperation with the FluType project, and Fraunhofer IZI-BB and is structured according to the value chain.

The leading international trade fair for the medical sector

The biannual snow algae meeting will take place at Fraunhofer IZI-BB this year from 15th to 16th November. 26 scientists from Japan, the USA, Greta Britain, Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany are gathering to discuss various topics around cryophilic (= cold-loving) microalgae from polar and high alpine regions of our planet Earth. Topics like taxonomy, phylogeny and population genetics like-wise will be addressed as aspects of genomics and transcriptomics. Thus, numerous presentations will go wide from field research to biotechnological applications of these extremophilic organisms. Prof. emer. Dr. Ronald Hoham (Colgate University, NY, USA) will participate as a special guest. Dr. Hoham has set milestones in snow algae research in the 1970s and will report on »his history with snow algae«.