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📍 Espace Vanel, 1 Allée Chaban Delmas – 31500 Toulouse (France)

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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.

17:30

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

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