SPECIAL SESSION ON MYCOREMEDIATION

WITHIN REMTECH EXPO EUROPE 2024

The LIFE MySOIL project invites you to join a special session on mycoremediation, as part of the RemTech Europe conference and exhibition.

The session will bring together researchers, practitioners and policymakers to discuss the latest advances on mycoremediation. This will include laboratory and on-field applications of soil bioremediation for the most part, but other implementation opportunities will also be considered. The session will contain both presentations from the European project LIFE MySOIL and others experts from the mycoremediation field.

The session will take place both online and physically on Thursday, 19th of September 2024, from 9:00 to 13:00 in Ferrara during RemTech Europe 2024.

About the project

The LIFE MySOIL project develops a competitive and innovative technology to demonstrate the feasibility of mycoremediation to remediate all petroleum-derived organic pollutants from aged industrial contaminated soils.

Mycoremediation is a type of bioremediation that uses fungal inocula to degrade (or accumulate) pollutants. The advantage of mycoremediation is that it retains the benefits of bioremediation treatments, including low economic, social and environmental costs, while allowing high levels of contaminant removal to be achieved without the counterparts of traditional remediation strategies (e.g. incineration and thermal desorption).

Agenda

9:00 – 9:10 – Welcome

9:10 – 9:20 – Introduction

Marco Falconi, Contaminated sites expert and researcher, ISPRA

 

Mycoremediation

 

9:20 – 9:40 – Mycoremediation: a 15-year long story of recalcitrant pollutants treatment by fungi

Tatiana Stella, CEO, M3R-Monitoring and Management of Microbial Resources

9:40 – 10:00 – Microbial interactions involved in bioremediation of benzo(a)pyrene by the fungus Talaromyces helicus in soil

Salomé Bertone, PhD student, University of Technology of Compiègne

10:00 – 10:20 – Aiming at Precision Bioremediation

Caroline Zaoui, CTO & Co-founder, Novobiom

10:20 – 10:40 – Round table and Q&A

10:40 – 11:10 – Coffee break

The LIFE MySOIL project

 

11:10 – 11:20 – Introduction to the LIFE MySOIL project

Jofre Herrero, Advanced Researcher and LIFE MySOIL Coordinator, Eurecat

11:20 – 11:40 – LIFE MySOIL: From biotreatability test to process transferability: the Italian experience

Fiora Bagnato, Senior R&D Specialist, Eni Rewind

Alessandro D’Annibale, Senior Researcher, University of Tuscia

11:40 – 12:00 – LIFE MySOIL: From biotreatability test to process transferability: the French experience

Laurent Thannberger, Scientific Director, VALGO

Ilaria Chicca, Mycologist, Novobiom

12:00 – 12:20 – LIFE MySOIL: From biotreatability test to process transferability: the Spanish experience

Rafael Antón, Researcher, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Jorge Diamantino, Consultant, KEPLER

12:20 – 12:40 – MYCOTRAP: a novel approach to assess soil mycoremediation

Anko Fischer, Head of Office in Leipzig, Isodetect

12:40 – 13:00 – Round table and Q&A

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