BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Helsinki X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:VEVENT UID:457@inflames.utu.fi DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260409T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260409T130000 DTSTAMP:20260324T072340Z URL:https://inflames.utu.fi/events/frontiers-of-science-prof-arthur-j-raga uskas/ SUMMARY:Frontiers of Science: Prof. Arthur J. Ragauskas DESCRIPTION:9th April at 12:00\nOnsite event\nin Presidentti auditorium\, B ioCity\nSpring 2026 program\n\nProf. Arthur J. Ragauskas\, The University of Tennessee\, USA\nFrom the forest to fuel tank &\; 3D printer\n\nHost : Chunlin Xu (chunlin.xu@abo.fi)\n\nCoffee and sandwich served at 11:45\, first come first serve!\n\n \;\n\nSix PhD researchers and early-career postdocs are welcome to have a lunch and discuss with Prof. Ragauskas aft er the seminar. This is a great possibility to learn hosting skills in a f riendly environment and create connections for future. Everyone is welcome to join\, BioCity Turku will offer the lunch.\n\nIf you got interested\, please send an email to biocityturku@bioscience.fi\n\n \;\n\nThe need for the development of sustainable energy and materials has never been as compelling.  Ragauskas’ research efforts are directed translational bio refining studies to address these needs both nationally and internationall y. His vision is to focus on fundamental research that allows him to estab lish the science underlying the goal of making Clean Energy\, Chemicals an d Bio-Derived Materials accessible and affordable.  This vision is focuse d on four primary areas\, 1) addressing the affordability of biofuels by i ncreasingly focusing on biomaterials and new fuels\, 2) expanding our work on identification of gene function in plants from a biofuels emphasis to a material focus that links to the biorefinery\, 3) developing new biomass characterization tools\, and 4) developing the ‘technology space’ for multifunctional bio-derived systems engineered at the nano-scale to provi de unique smart physical properties.\n\n \;\n\nSelected publications\n \nSustainable recovery of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) from coal and coal as h through urban mining: A Nature Based Solution (NBS) for circular economy . Agrawal R\, Ragauskas AJ. J Environ Manage. 2025 Jun\;384:125411.\n\nLig nin - A green material for antibacterial application - A review. Das AK\, Mitra K\, Conte AJ\, Sarker A\, Chowdhury A\, Ragauskas AJ. Int J Biol Mac romol. 2024 Mar\;261(Pt 2):129753.\n\nCoupling hydropyrolysis and vapor-ph ase catalytic hydrotreatment to produce biomethane from pine sawdust. Wang J\, Jiang J\, Meng X\, Ragauskas AJ. Bioresour Technol. 2023 Oct\;386:129 472.\n\nDetermination of hydroxyl groups in biorefinery resources via quan titative 31P NMR spectroscopy. Meng X\, Crestini C\, Ben H\, Hao N\, Pu Y\ , Ragauskas AJ\, Argyropoulos DS. Nat Protoc. 2019 Sep\;14(9):2627-264\n\n  \;\n\nGeneral information\n\n Registration is not needed\, participa tion list is circulated in the audience\n If you are a student and later wish to get a certificate of attendance from the Frontier of Science semin ars\, print out the seminar diary and after the seminar ask the BioCity co ordinator to sign it https://seafile.utu.fi/f/0cd08ce7e61b419b88cb/\n Ple ase note that any audio or video recording of the seminars is strictly for bidden.\n Spring 2026 image credits to Jan Kaslin: Motor neurons (green) and newly produced cells (red) are organized around the central canal (blu e cells surrounding channel that crosses the image) in the adult zebrafish spinal cord. Image taken using Leica SP8 confocal microscope.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://inflames.utu.fi/wp-content/uploads/fos-s pring2026-thumbnail.jpg CATEGORIES:Events in English,Tapahtumat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Helsinki X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T040000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR