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SUMMARY:Sustainable Futures Seminar Series | Green space: How off-world c
 onstruction technologies could promote sustainable development on Earth 
 & Microbial engineering for a healthy planet
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DESCRIPTION:This event will see separate talks from The University of Man
 chester's Dr Neil Dixon and Dr Aled Roberts\n\n\nAgenda:\n\n14:00: Welco
 me and introduction with event chair (TBC) \n\n14:05: Dr Aled Roberts\, 
 Research Fellow\, Faculty of Science and Engineering\,	Manchester Instit
 ute of Biotechnology at The University of Manchester\n\nGreen space: How
  off-world construction technologies could promote sustainable developme
 nt on Earth\n\n14:30: Q&A with Dr Aled Roberts\n\n14:40 Dr Neil Dixon\, 
 Reader\, Faculty of Science and Engineering\, Manchester Institute of Bi
 otechnology at The University of Manchester\n\nMicrobial engineering for
  a healthy planet\n\n15:05: Q&A with Dr Neil Dixon\n\n15:15: Event Close
  \n\n\nPresentation Overviews:\n\nDr Aled Roberts | Any long-term human 
 habitat on the Lunar or Martian surfaces will require extreme resourcefu
 lness\, circularity and sustainability as a matter of survival. The driv
 e to establish such off-world habitats will undoubtedly result in novel 
 technologies which may promote sustainable development on Earth. Here\, 
 we will discuss how advanced construction technologies being developed f
 or the Lunar and Martian surfaces could be applied on Earth\, and could 
 help improve the sustainability of the buildings and construction sector
  - which accounts for 39% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions by some estimat
 es.\n\nDr Neil Dixon | Microbes are one of the dominant life forms on pl
 anet earth\, comprising close to 90Gt of carbon\, outweighing animals by
  a factor 30\, second only plant biomass. As such microbes have hugely i
 mportant roles in carbon recycling\, nitrogen fixation\, plant health\, 
 and agriculture\, and thus are central to creating an environmentally su
 stainable future. Advanced methods to engineer microbes can provide trac
 table approaches to address sustainability challenges including i) non-f
 ossil fuel-based production sources of energy\, chemicals and materials\
 , ii) solutions for carbon and nitrogen fixation\, iii) bioremediation o
 f contaminated environments. In this talk I will present some highlights
  of these approaches including activities from our research group. This 
 will include the development of advanced biorefinery processes by co-pro
 duction of high value chemicals directly from waste agro-industrial resi
 dues [1]\, microbial processes to degrade and assimilate waste plastic [
 2]\, and thirdly the development of underpinning genetic toolbox to cont
 rol engineered microbes for sensing\, regulation and production[3].\n\n
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