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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

  • Conference Room - A

16:30 - 17:00

James McLellan, Queen's University

Open Science, Boundary Spanning and Impact

  • 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

  • Conference Room - A

19:30 - 22:30

All Registrants

Happy Hour in the House Pub

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