
1st Open Plastic Symposium
May 29 - 31, 2023 - Donald Gordon Conference Center, Kingston, ON, Canada

Day 1
May 29, 2023
10:00 - 12:00
Open Plastic Consortium Members
Annual General Meeting
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Conference Room - A
12:00 - 13:30
Open Plastic Consortium Members
Working Lunch
14:50 - 15:00
Laurence Yang, Queen's University
Welcome and Introduction
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Conference Room - A
15:00 - 15:30
George diCenzo, Queen's University
Metagenomic and microbiological approaches to identifying plastic degrading bacteria and enzymes from the gut of beetle larvae
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Conference Room - A
15:30 - 16:00
Maria Cleveland, Queen's University
Investigating the potential utility of Rhodococcus opacus oxidases for the degradation of polystyrene
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Conference Room - A
16:00 - 16:30
Jesse Greener, Université Laval
A tutorial example of spectroscopy-coupled microreactors to study complex reaction kinetics: application on free-radical polymerization of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)
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Conference Room - A
16:30 - 17:00
James McLellan, Queen's University
Open Science, Boundary Spanning and Impact
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Conference Room - A
17:00 - 18:30
All Registrants
Dinner in Dining Room
18:30 - 19:30
Alain Marty, Carbios
Keynote Presentation
PET recycling: From enzyme and process optimization to an industrial plant
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Conference Room - A
19:30 - 22:30
All Registrants
Happy Hour in the House Pub