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
(Cancelled)

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
(Cancelled)

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