2022 MELiSSA Conference

CURRENT AND FUTURE WAYS TO CLOSED LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS

hYBRID EVENT : In-Person & Virtual Event
8-9-10 November 2022
Espace Vanel
Toulouse (France)

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2022 MELiSSA Conference - 7th edition

The MELiSSA Conference is a major European event in the field of space research!

Discovering innovative and unique projects contributing to the circular economy approach, this is the promise made to you by the organizing committee of this conference that will take place on 8-9-10 November 2022!

Come and meet the MELiSSA actors. Dive into the world of space.

Take advantage of this incredible opportunity to interact with famous key speakers & researchers!

Listen to international experts from the worlds of academia and industry.

It will be a unique opportunity to listen to international experts from the worlds of academia and industry.

The 2022 edition of the MELiSSA Conference is a European platform focused on closed-life support systems. It is the place to share and exchange thoughts on fundamental and applied research for Space and Earth applications (e.g. circular economy). All the respective domains: air, water, waste recycling, food production and preparation, modelling, control, safety, circular systems, education and societal impact, … are represented.

The Conference will highlight and foster the collaboration between researchers, engineers, experts, private and public organizations.

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Hybrid conference: in-person & virtual event!

The 2022 MELiSSA Conference offers you the best of both worlds!
 
Our conference combines a live in-person event in Toulouse and a virtual one online.
Either way, live a unique experience and meet inspiring people from the space sector and beyond.

Topics

Take a look at the various topics that will be highlighted during the Conference.

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Life Support
System

food production and preparation

water recycling

Contamination control

Modeling & Control

System engineering

circular economy

3D Material

Education

Societal impact

Key speakers

These are the faces that you will have the privilege to meet. Inspiring speakers from the space sector and beyond.

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Raymond Wheeler

Plant Physiologist and lead for Advanced Life Support Research activities in the Exploration Research and Technology Program
NASA Kennedy Space Center

Liu Hong

Professor at the School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering
Lunar Palace

Christer Fuglesang

Physicist and ESA astronaut
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology

Géraldine Naja

Director of Commercialisation, Industry and Procurement
ESA - European Space Agency

Eric Landel

Senior Consultant
ELC

François Forget

Senior Consultant Scientist
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL/LMD)

Audrey Berthier

Executive Director
MEDES - Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology

Joel Doré

Research Director
INRAE - Institut national de la recherche agronomique

Emmanuel Frossard

Full Professor of Plant Nutrition
Institute of Agricultural Sciences at the ETH Zurich

Didier Schmitt

Strategy and Coordination Group Leader for Human and Robotic Exploration
ESA - European Space Agency

Francesc Gòdia

Full Professor in Chemical Engineering
UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Stella TKATCHOVA

EIC Programme Manager
EISMEA - European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

Key speakers

These are the faces that you will have the privilege to meet. Inspiring speakers from the space sector and beyond.

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Raymond Wheeler

Plant Physiologist and lead for Advanced Life Support Research activities in the Exploration Research and Technology Program
NASA Kennedy Space Center

Liu Hong

Professor at the School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering
Lunar Palace

Christer Fuglesang

Physicist and ESA astronaut
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology

Géraldine Naja

Director of Commercialisation, Industry and Procurement
ESA - European Space Agency

Eric Landel

Senior Consultant
ELC

Francois Forget

Senior Consultant Scientist
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL/LMD)

Stella TKATCHOVA

EIC Programme Manager
EISMEA - European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

Audrey Berthier

Executive Director
MEDES - Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology

Joel Doré

Research Director
INRAE - Institut national de la recherche agronomique

Emmanuel Frossard

Full Professor of Plant Nutrition
Institute of Agricultural Sciences at the ETH Zurich

Didier Schmitt

Strategy and Coordination Group Leader for Human and Robotic Exploration
ESA - European Space Agency

Francesc Gòdia

Full Professor in Chemical Engineering
UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Our Program

Discover now our program for the 3 days!

DAY 1 - 08/11
DAY 2 - 09/11
DAY 3 - 10/11
DAY 1 - 08/11
DAY 2 - 09/11
DAY 3 - 10/11

Scientific Committee

  • Ann-Iren Kittang Jost - CIRIS, Norway
  • Max Mergeay - MELiSSA Foundation, Belgium
  • Heleen De Weever - VITO, Belgium
  • Ruddy Wattiez - University Mons, Belgium
  • Philippe Fiani - SHERPA Engineering, France
  • Suren Erkman - Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Mike Dixon - Guelph University, Canada
  • Claude Gilles Dussap - Université Clermont Auvergne, France
  • Emmanuel Frossard - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Dirk Springael - KUL, Belgium
  • Francesc Godia - UAB, Spain
  • Ivan Simeonov - BAS, Bulgaria
  • Ségolène Guinard - Antiterra, United Kingdom
  • Siegfried Vlaeminck - Antwerpen University, Belgium
  • Stefania De Pascale - UNINA, Italy
  • Giovanna Aronne - UNINA, Italy
  • Korneel Rabaye - Ghent University, Belgium
  • Christophe Lasseur - ESA, The Netherlands
  • Ramone Ganigue - Ghent University, Belgium
  • Berengere Farges - Université Clermont-Auvergne, France
  • Kai Udert - EAWAG, Switzerland
  • Clara Plata Rios – Malaga University, Spain
  • Lorenzo Buccieri - Enginsoft, Italy
  • Rob Suters - SEMillA, The Netherlands
  • Jack Legrand - GEPEA, Université Nantes Saint-Nazaire, France
  • Christel Paille - ESA, The Netherlands
  • Brigitte Lamaze - ESA, The Netherlands
  • Cesare Lobascio - TAS-I, Italy
  • Dries Demey - Qinetiq, Belgium
  • Juan Manuel Casalta - SENER, Spain
  • Paolo Daniesi - RUAG, Switzerland
  • Chloé Audas - ESA, The Netherlands
  • Sandra Ortega - ESA, The Netherlands
  • Alain Maillet – CNES, France
  • Alexis Paillet – CNES, France
  • Lucie Poulet – UCA, France
  • Cyprien Verseux – ZARM, Germany
  • Stéphanie Lizy-Destrez – SUPAERO, France
  • Sebastien Vincent – ESA, The Netherlands
  • François Cluzel – CENTRAL SUPÉLEC, France
  • Aude De Clercq - ESA, The Netherlands
  • Stephan Speidel - ESA, The Netherlands

Organizing Committee

  • Audrey Berthier – MEDES, France
  • Chloe Audas – ESA, The Netherlands
  • Sandra Ortega Ulgade – ESA, The Netherlands
  • Isabelle Damoisaux-Delnoy – IDDUP, Belgium
  • Florence Vanhal – IDDUP, Belgium
  • Samantha Machi – IDDUP, Belgium
  • Bryan Pinchart – IDDUP, Belgium
  • Tomas Schwanen – IDDUP, Belgium
  • Caroline Falleau – IDDUP, Belgium
  • Chritian Mustin – CNES, France
  • Lucie Poulet – UCA, France
  • Aude De Clercq – ESA, The Netherlands
  • Didier Schmitt – ESA, The Netherlands
  • Giorgio Magistrati – ESA, The Netherlands
  • Christophe Lasseur – ESA, The Netherlands

Schedule and deadlines

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18/04/2022

Opening of abstract submission

31/07/2022

Abstract submission deadline

29/08/2022

Notification of acceptance (abstract)

04/09/2022

Early Bird deadline

15/09/2022

Issue of program

30/10/2022

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8:30

REGISTRATIONS

ROOM 1

Chair: Christophe LASSEUR – ESA

9:30

Torben HENRIKSEN – ESA/D TEC

José Gavira Izquierdo – ESA

9:40

Giorgio MAGISTRATTI – ESA HRE

9:50

Sébastien BARDE – CNES

10:00

Stella TKATCHOVA – EU Innovation

10:10

Geraldine NAJA – ESA/D CIP

10:30

Didier SCHMITT – ESA-HRE

11:00

François FORGET – IPSL

11:30

Christophe LASSEUR – ESA-TEC

12:10

Elena GRASHCHENKOVA – ESA CIP

12:30

LUNCH

ROOM 1

Plants Characterisation 1/3

Chair: Lucie Poulet (UCA)
Co-chair: Ray Wheeler (NASA)

ROOM 2

Food Process 1/2

Chair: Christel Paille (ESA)
Co-chair: Joel Dore (INRAE)

ROOM 3

Urine & Nitrification 1/3

Chair: Siegfried Vlaeminck (U Anvers)
Co-chair: Nele Kirkerup (EAWAG)

13:30

Shortening the Breeding Cycle. Bahar ACIKSOZ – U SUSSEX
A novel multiproduct pathway towards algal food ingredients.
Antoinette KAZBAR – U WAGENINGEN
Influence of organics removal and nitrification on pharmaceutical and artificial sweetener removal ; the example of urine treatmet.
Aurea HEUSSER – EAWAG

13:50

PaCMan Unit upgrade. New subsystems for a deeper investigation of the root zone.
Claudia QUADRI – ENGINSOFT
Lettuce cultivation in a urine recycling scenario: Effects of different NH4:NO3 ratios.
Mona SCHIEFLOE – NTNU
Community shift of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and washout of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria due to pH changes during urine nitrification.
Kai Udert – EAWAG

14:10

Fertilizer production for soilless plant cultivation in closed life support system – lessons learned from 4 years study.
Anna JURGA – U WROCLAW
Vitamin B12, microalgae and the MELiSSA loop.
Ellen HARRISON – U Cambridge.
Electrochemical stabilization and resource recovery from source-separated urine.
Popat SUDEEP – U CLEMSON.

14:30

Characterization of three leafy vegetables in a sealed plant-growth chamber for closed life support systems.
Antonio PANNICO – UNINA
Species selection of microgreens to be produced in space as functional food for astronaut consumption.
Luigi IZZO – UNINA
Impact of the Composition of Organics on Urine Treatment.
Nele KIRKERUP – EAWAG

14:50

Plants for Space – a new multidisciplinary centre focused on enabling long term-deep space habitation.
Mathew GILLIHAM – U ADELAIDE
Green algae for sustainable edible proteins production.
Matteo BALLOTARRI – U VERONA.
Will be three a multitude in the nitrifying compartment? First steps towards the characterization of a novel synthetic community by using flow cytometry and atomic force microscopy.
Celia ALVAREZ – U Ghent

15:10

Novel approach to enhance the potential of ground preparatory activities for improved plant growing experiments in microgravity.
lliana ILLIEVA – BAS
MEAT4SPACE – Cultured meat for human space exploration.
Pedro GARCIA – ESA
The effects of ISS-like ionizing radiation on the proteome and metabolome of ureolytic and nitrifying bacteria.
Tom Verbeelen – SCK

15:30

COFFEE BREAK

ROOM 1

Air & Grey Water

Chair: Enrique Peiro Cezon (UAB)
Co-chair: Gregory Navarro (CNES)

ROOM 2

Food Process 2/2

Chair: Alain Maillet (CNES)
Co-chair: Felice MASTROLEO (SCK)

ROOM 3

Urine & Nitrification 2/3

Chair: Kai Udert (EAWAG)
Co-chair: Marijn Timmer (U Anvers)

15:50

Grey water recycling from space to earth.
Pierre MAGNES – FIRMUS
How abiotic factors change the requirements for plants cultivation in Space systems.
Chiara AMITRANO – UNINA
Fresh urine treatment with bio-mineral phosphorus recovery and nitrification with biocatalysts.
Ana SOARES – U CRANFIELD.

16:10

Indoor CO2 Direct Air Capture (iCO2-DAC): CO2 As Renewable Carbon Source.
Luis Rafael Lopez de Leon – U GIRONA
The significance of aquaponics in Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems.
Yoshiaki KITAYA – U OSAKA
Urine and life support: Some nitrification-based MELiSSA solutions.
Siegfried VLAEMINCK – U ANVERS

16:30

Anerobic Membrane Bioreactors for Long-Duration Sanitation: Current Technologies and Pharmaceutical Challenges.
John MARSHALL – U TEXAS
Ground-based demonstrator for the first space-ready lunar agricultural module.
Daniel SCHUBERT – DLR
The alkalinity dilemma in nitrification.
Agata SIEDLECKA – U WROCLAW

16:50

Electroactive biofilm development under controlled hydrodynamic in a Couette-Taylor electrochemical reactor.
Florent BOUCHON – INRAE
Innovative Spirulina Nutraceuticals products for health prevention in long flight and extraterrestrial habitat.
Olivier LEPINE – ALGOSOURCE
Closing loop with biological nitrification for nutrients recovery and surfactants removal.
Kamil JANIACK – U Wroclaw.

17:10

17:30

Christer FUGLESANG – ESA Astronaut

18:20
19:15

Travel to “Cité de l’espace”

19:15
20:30

Visit “Cité de l’espace”

ROOM 1

ROOM 2

ROOM 3

8:00

Joel Dore
INRAE
Emmanuel Frossard
ETH
Francesc GÒDIA
UAB

BioMaterial 1/2

Chair: Advenit Makaya (ESA)
Co-chair: Martin CERFF (BHL)

Plants Characterisation 2/3

Chair: Emmanuel Frossard (ETHZ)
Co-chair: Ann-Iren Jost (CIRIS)

System Studies 1/3

Chair: Philippe Fiani (SHERPA)
Co-chair: Lorenzo Buschieri (Enginsoft)

8:30

Passive limitation of surface contamination by perFluoroDecylTrichloroSilane coatings in the ISS during the MATISS experiments.
Laurence LEMELLE – ENS Lyon
Evaluating Microgreens Crop Readiness for Space Production.
Lucie POULET – UCA
Assessing the resilience of circular water systems: a simulation-based approach using the UWOT model.
Dimitrios BOUZIOTAS – KWR

8:50

Assessing the integration of a bioreactor producing SCPs and PHAs from organic waste into global environmental systems.
Etienne PERRIN – CNES
Crop production in space: the microbial helping hand.
Danny GEELEN – U GHENT
Circularity indicators and digitalisation for monitoring circular space and terrestrial systems.
Francois CLUZEL – CENTRALSUPELEC

9:10

From Organic Waste to Ink for 3D Printing Within the MELiSSA Loop.
Martin CERFF – BHL
SUPER FOOD FOR SPACE: from a complex biological system to a simplified plant model.
Leone ROMANO – UNINA
Space Greenhouse Design: towards a systematic methodology.
Lucie POULET – UCA

9:30

THE FUTURE OF FOOD PRODUCTION.
Giorgia PONTETTI – EltHub
Lactuca sativa L. plants showed different capacities to cope with ionizing radiation when exposed to increasing doses of heavy ions.
Sara De FRANCESCO – UNINA
Designing the MELiSSA Pilot Plant Integration. Gas loop closure between higher plant chamber and crew compartment: requirements specifications, simulations and hardware.
Carles CIURANS – UAB

9:50

COFFEE BREAK

ROOM 1

Plants Characterisation 3/3

Chair: Bahar Aciksoz (U Essex)
Co-chair: Veronica De Micco (UNINA)

ROOM 2

Space & Terrestrial Demonstrators 1/3

Chair: Chloe Audas (ESA)
Co-chair: Alexis Paillet (CNES)

ROOM 3

System Studies 2/3

Chair: Gilles Dussap (UCA)
Co-chair: Angelo Vermeulen (TUD)

10:10

Integration of Human Urine Derivatives in Soilless Systems Fertilization to Grow Salad Crops.
Christophe EL NAKHEL – UNINA
SEEDLING GROWTH: results from the largest ESA/NASA Arabidopsis experiment on the ISS looking into the molecular adaptation of plants to the Moon gravity and other life support system relevant scenarios.
Raul HERRANZ – CSIC
A roadmap for future system studies VARSITY legacy.
Marco GATTI – ENGINSOFT

10:30

Characterization of the performance of the Higher Plants Chamber in the MELiSSA Pilot Plant under batch and staggered mode of operation using L. sativa.
Carolina ARNAU – UAB
PFPU: Microgravity Precursor Food Production Unit development statu.
Giorgio BOSCHERI – THALES ALENIA SPACE
Specification process of a simulation platform for the MELiSSA project.
Alexandre SOBAS – CENTRALSUPELEC

10:50

Effect of the addition of human urine-based struvite on the growth of green bean on Mars and moon soil simulants.
Wieger Wamelink – U Wageningen.
Concept Study of a BLSS Module for LEO, Cislunar and Mars Transit stations.
Paolo CARATELLI – U Abu Dhabi
Modelling physical processes in higher plants using leaf replicas for space applications.
Joanna KUZMA – UCA

11:10

Amphibious plants present a gigantic shift in root microbial community across life cycles.
Jorge MANDUSSI – U California
Adaptive vertical farm for fresh food production in life support systems.
Patrizia BAGNERINI –
Design of the MELiSSA loop control strategy.
Benjamin THIRON – SHERPA

11:30

Light stimuli to guide roots of agriculturally-important plants in extra-terrestrial environments.
Luigi IZZO – UNINA
Lessons learned for life support system payloads.
Blandine GORCE – ESA
SpaceShip.FR and MELiSSA: Harmonized Roadmaps for Regenerative Life Support Systems.
Gregory NAVARRO – CNES

11:50

Water Across the Plant Systems (WAPS): ground tests on hydration and air humidity to model plant growth for space experiments.
Giovanna ARONNE – UNINA

12:10

LUNCH

ROOM 1

ROOM 2

ROOM 3

13:10

Audrey Berthier & Alexis PAILLET
MEDES
Ray Wheeler 
NASA
Eric Landel 
RTX

Waste Treatment 1/2

Chair: Sandra Ortega (ESA)
Co-chair: Alberte Regueira (U Ghent)

Space & Terrestrial Demonstrators 2/3

Chair: Cesare Lobascio (THALES ALENIA SPACE)
Co-chair: Carol Arnau (UAB)

System Studies 3/3

Chair: Eric Landel (RTX)
Co-chair: Chloe Audas (ESA)

13:40

Soluble wipes in deep space waste management.
Brian Mc CORMACK – McCORMARK Innovation
Running a photobioreactor in space for the production of oxygen and edible spirulina biomass.
Felice MASTROLEO – SCK
Knowledge models of photobioreactors and their paths integral formulation.
Jeremi DAUCHET – UCA

14:00

Bioenergetic modelling for predicting and steering VFA production in carbohydrates anaerobic fermentation.
Alberte REGUEIRA – U Ghent
Design & operation of a bread board model of spirulina photobioreactor equipped with a harvesting system to support ISS On Board Demonstrator development.
Dominique CHAPUIS – BEYOND GRAVITY
Conceptual design of an Environment Control and Life Support System for a Mars Transit Mission.
Blandine GORCE – ESA

14:20

BioPack: a technology for waste inhibition and compaction for Life Support Systems.
Fabio LORENZINI – KAYSER It
Spreading and sliding of condensed air humidity droplets over metallic substrates under non-isothermal conditions.
Ouriana OIKOMIDOU – U Thessalonikis
Model structuration and review for MELiSSA knowledge and control.
Laurent POUGHON – UCA

14:40

Characterization of a promising thermophilic chain elongating bacterium isolated from a MELiSSA waste compartment reactor, Thermocaproicibacter melissae gen. nov., sp. nov. for n-caproate production utilizing polymeric carbohydrates.
Tinh NGUYEN – KUL
The Effect of ISS-like Ionizing Radiation and Microgravity on the Transcriptome of N-cycle Bacteria.
Tom VERBEELEN – SCK
Analog mission to test life support systems for future manned missions.
Quentin ROYER – ISAE

15:00

COFFEE BREAK

ROOM 1

Waste Treatment 2/2

Chair: Ana Soares (U Cranfield)
Co-chair: Korneel Rabaey (U Ghent)

ROOM 2

Space & Terrestrial Demonstrators 3/3

Chair: Paolo Dainesi (Beyond Gravity)
Co-chair: Dries Demey (Qinetiq)

ROOM 3

Societal Impact 1/2

Chair: Isabelle Damoisaux-Delnoy (IDDUP)
Co-chair: Hennis Thieme (AstroPlant)

15:20

Lift off biogas industry : BIO-VALO, the pilot test platform for your projects.
Pierre FONTANILLE – BioVALO

Advancement of the PFPU Root Module for the production of tuberous species in microgravity.
Luigi DURI – UNINA

Open-source cellular agriculture and other one health citizen lead projects.
Garcia TORRENTS – MARC

15:40

Plastic recycling in space using microorganisms: a potential tool to close the loop.
Rosa SANTOMARTINO – U EDINBURGH
The SOLE project: a hydroponic greenhouse demonstrator for fresh food production in space.
Giorgia PONTETTI – G&A Engineering
AstroPlant – an educational citizen science architecture for plant characterisation.
Thieme HENNIS – ASTROPLANT

16:00

Evaluating the use of menstrual blood-derived cell therapy to support astronauts in long-term space missions.
Marion DUGUE – TU DELFT
Autonomous complex biospheres in space : moral grounds, historical perspectives and a way forwards.
Louise FLEISCHER – SPRING

Mars Camp – How to raise awareness of STEM through the topic of space.

Gaëtan GRECO – Euro Space Center

16:20

The membrane bioreactor (MBR): A hybrid technology for bioregenerative wastewater treatment and resource recovery in space.
Daniel YEH – U South FLORIDA
Analog astronaut habitats and space simulation systems.
Kato CLAEYS – KUL
The MELiSSA Project in the ESA_Lab@ Initiative: A Brainstorming Platform Promoting European STEM talents.
Maria Gabriella SARAH – ESA

16:40

Free time

20:00

Group Picture

20:30
22:30

Gala dinner

ROOM 1

ROOM 2

ROOM 3

REBUS 1/2

Chair: Marta Del Bianco (ASI)
Co-chair: Stefania De Pasquale (UNINA)

Algae & Photobioreactor 1/2

Chair: Jeremy Pruvost (GEPEA)
Co-chair: Ellen Harrison (U Cambridge)

Societal Impact 2/2

Chair: Christian TAMPONNET (EthoSpace)

8:00

The assessment of microalgae biochemistry through NMR non-invasive approach offers new perspectives for their monitoring in photobioreactors.
Gonçalves Olivier – GEPEA
Round Table
AstroPlants Users

8:20

Extracellular conversion of CO2 into sugars and other functional food ingredients: SweetAir.
Iulian-Zoltan BOBOESCU – U WAGENINGEN

8:40

The REBUS project in the context of the Italian Life Science Roadmap for human space exploration.
Marta del Bianco – ASI
Assessing the efficiency of cyanobacterium-based BLSS on Mars.
Cyprien VERSEUX – ZARM

9:00

Simulated microgravity affects pollen tube development: a crucial stage in the seed-to-seed cycle of space candidate crops.
Maurizio IOVANE – UNINA
Optimizing phosphorus removal for municipal wastewater post-treatment with Chlorella vulgaris.
Aigars LAVRINOVIS – RTU
History of CELSS in Europe.
Christophe LASSEUR – ESA

9:20

The Potential of Lunar and Martian regolith simulants as plant growth media.
Antonio Giandonato Caporale – UNINA
ALGOLIGHT to produce high value products in a compact controlled and intensified photobioreactor adaptable to the life support for human space exploration.
Charlène THOBIE – ALGOLIGHT.
The MELiSSA foundation and the selection of young scientists involved in research on life support in space: eight years of experience in the POMP project.
Max MERGEAY – MELiSSA Foundation

9:40

The REBUS fungal collection for the space organic waste exploitation.
Solveig TOSI – U PAVIA
Development of innovative processes for the industrial cultivation of high added-value plants in a vertical farming pilot system.
Nico BETTERLE – U VERONA

10:00

COFFEE BREAK

ROOM 1

REBUS 2/2

Chair: Marta Del Bianco (ASI)
Co-chair: Stefania De Pasquale (UNINA)

ROOM 2

Algae & Photobioreactor 2/2

Chair: Pascal Jaouen (Pol Mer atlantique)
Co-chair: Theodore Besson (ESTEE)

ROOM 3

Terrestrial Applications 1/2

Chair: Aude de Clercq (ESA)
Co-chair: Rob Suters (SEMiLLA)

10:20

Space organic waste degradation: a new approach to microgreens cultivation.
Silvia TABACCHIONI – ENEA
Implementation of an automated process for a continuous Limnospira harvesting and the recycling of the culture medium for space applications.
Céline COENE – QINETIQ
URIDIS, electricity-driven water technology for safe and sustainable toilets without chemical additives.
Korneel Rabaey – U Ghent

10:40

Entomological degradation in bio-regenerative systems for space: Study on the efficacy of Hermetia illucens-mediated bioconversion.
Maurizio CALVITTI – ENEA
The impact of light, temperature and low-dose irradiation on the growth and composition of Limnospira indica, a component of the MELiSSA life support system for space exploration.
Jana FAHRION – SCK
The greater Caux Seine Area : the land of energy transition & circular economy.
Pierre Van CAENEGEM – CAUX SEINE

11:00

Chicory (Cichorium intybus L) for space-oriented production of prebiotic rich plant under controlled conditions for astronaut wellbeing.
Alberto BATTISTELLI – CNR-IRET
Modeling and experimental campaign of a novel, compact, thin-tube photobioreactor for high volumetric productivity.
Jack HOENIGES – GEPEA

Microalgae-based biofacade to develop sustainable buildings: system modeling with Modelica

Flora GIRARD – GEPEA

11:20

Chicory roots as antidote to spaceflight-induced chronic stress: a translational study in the framework of the ReBUS project.
Francesca ZORATTO – ISS
Duckweed Production for Space Life Support.
Christine ESCOBAR – Space Lab
Integrated Water Cycle Demonstration Pilot Project Using MELiSSA Space Technology.
Ernesto LOPEZ BAEZA – U VALENCIA

11:40

Morpho-physiological and nutritional responses of Brassica microgreens to heavy ions: an outlook on ionizing radiation from the REBUS project.
Veronica De MICCO UNINA
Algal dormancy and revivability in space.
Yash PARDASANI – SAMS UHT
The NEWgenerator Resource Recovery Machine for off-grid wastewater treatment: Case studies for global sanitation in India and South Africa, and implications for space colonies.
Yeh DANIEL – U FLORIDA

12:00

ReBUS-Cyanobacteria: The use of the desiccation-, radiation-tolerant cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis sp. CCMEE 029 for in situ resource utilization on the Moon and Mars. Daniella BILLI – U ROME
Arthrospira – Biomas Recovery.
Rastislav KRAMPL – Bio X

12:20

LUNCH

ROOM 1

ROOM 2

ROOM 3

BioMaterial 2/2

Chair: Adevnit Makaya (ESA)
Co-chair: Sandra Ortega (ESA)

Urine & Nitrification 3/3

Chair: Baptiste Leroy (U Mons)
Co-chair: Aurea Heusser (EAWAG)

Terrestrial Applications 2/2

Chair: Stephan Speidel (ESA)
Co-chair: Pierre Van Caenegem (CAUX SEINE)

13:30

Assessing the Recycling Potential of Cupriavidus necator for Space Travel: Production of SCPs and PHAs from Organic Waste.
Pierre JORIS – TBI
Nitrogen gas production and extraction from urine to compensate for gas leakage during long-term Space missions: Proof of concept for an energy-efficient microgravity-compatible bioreactor.
Marijn TIMMER – U ANVERS
PhotoBioreactor Space R&D at MEG Science.
Mattia TOFFANETTI – MEG

13:50

3D printing in low-gravity (3DmedLowG project): Challenges in development of hardware and food compatible printing ink.
Gasan Osojnik – Univerza v Ljubljani
Nitrogen gas and water recovery using the Nitrogenisor bioreactor for crewed Mars mission: A feasibility study based on stochastic mission scenarios.
Tim Van WINCKEL – U ANVERS
Q&A about MELiSSA terrestrial applications
Aude De CLERCQ – ESA
Stephan Speidel – ESA

14:10

Kombucha-derived biomaterials for life in space.
Agata KOBODZIEJCZYK – AGH UST
Toward nitrogen recovery from unnitrified urine using Limnospira indica.
Baptiste LEROY – U MONS
Opportunities for MELiSSA-derived downstream services within ESA’s Space Solutions.
Arnaud RUNGE – ESA

14:30

Hydrolysis and nitrification of synthetic urine in continuous packed-bed bench-scale bioreactors.
Carolina ARNAU – UAB
Advancing Opportunities for Ag-Tech in the Space Environment: Mutation Breeding Programs, Closed-Loop Developments, and Exploring Future Opportunities.
Connor KISELCHUK – StarLab Oasis

14:50

COFFEE BREAK

15:20

Pr LIU Hong – Lunar Palace

15:40

PANELS. Necessary ECLSS demonstrators before the departure to Mars.
Cesare Lobascio – Thales
Dries Demey – RedWire
Francesc Godia – UAB-MPP
Alexis PAILLET – CNES
Peter Weiss – Spartan Space
Chairman : Giorgio Magistrati – ESA
16:20
16:40
Conclusion
Robert Lindner – ESA