BWWP 2007

Biodeterioration of Wood and Wood Products
BWWP 2007

PROGRAMME

The meeting is organized to provide an overview of the current understanding of wood biodeterioration and biodegradation by microorganisms. Our aim is to bring together the academic and industrial communities as well as students, studying the field of research on wood biodeterioration.

Oral and poster presentations will cover the following topics:

Biodeterioration of wood by fungi and bacteria
Wood biodeterioration - cultural heritage
Structure and micromorphology of decayed wood
Biotechnological applications
Methods of wood biodeterioration studies

Final programme

Sunday, August 26	18.00	Registration Get-together party Hotel Alberts.
Monday, August 27	9.00-10.00 10.00-10.30 10.30-11.00 11.00-11.20 11.20-11.50	Registration; Mounting of posters Riga Congress Centre Opening session Bruno Andersons, Institute of Wood Chemistry, Latvia Juris Ekmanis, President of the Latvian Academy of Sciences Alexander Rapoport, FEMS representative (Latvia) Christine Gaylarde, IBBS representative (UK; Brazil) Session 1: Biodeterioration of wood by fungi and bacteria Chair: Frantiđek Nerud, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Republic Overview of wood deterioration by decay fungi. Barry Goodell (University of Maine, USA). Weight loss prediction in wood decay processes. Nadine Montaruli, J.W.G. van de Kuilen, W. F. Gard. (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands). Mechanism of wood decay; physical and chemical properties of hydroxyl-radical-producing substance from wood decay fungi. Akio Enoki (Kinki University, Japan).
	11.50-12.50	Lunch
	12.50-13.20 13.20-13.40	Session 2: Wood biodeterioration - cultural heritage Chair: Bruno Andersons, Institute of Wood Chemistry, Latvia Biodegradation of cultural heritage. Hannu Viitanen (VTT, Finland). Mycological monitoring of the Belarusian State Museum of Folk Architecture and everyday life. Angelika G. Mickievich, Alexander N. Kapich (Int. Sakharov Environmental University, Belarus).
	13.40-14.10	Coffee
	14.10-14.40 14.40-15.00 15.00-15.20	Restoring a pharmacy worthy of preservation from 1905 in Copenhagen, Denmark J¸rgen Bech-Andersen (Hussvamp Laboratoriet, Denmark) Fungi in wooden houses built in gardens of the Vilnius vicinity. Albinas Lugauskas, Bronius Jaskelevičius (Insitute of Botany, Lithuania). Timber decay to our cultural heritage. Environmentally sustainable conservation solutions Jagjit Singh (EBS Ltd, UK)
	15.20-17.00	Poster session
	19.00	Riga City Council reception
Tuesday, August 28	9.00-9.30 9.30-10.00	Session 3: Structure and micromorphology of decayed wood Chair: Olaf Schmidt, University of Hamburg, BFH, Germany Micro-and ultrastructural changes in wood during biodegradation – our current understanding Geoffrey Daniel (SLU, Sweden). An overview of micromorphologies in decayed wood produced by brown-rot fungi Yoon Soo Kim (Chonnam National University, South Korea).
	10.00-10.30	Coffee
	10.30-10.50 10.50-11.10 11.10-11.30	Impact of lignin or lignin-like compounds on the non-biodegradability of fossil wood cellulose. Valérie Lechien, Philippe Thonart (University of Liege, Belgium). Micromorphological characteristics of bamboo (Phyllostachys puberscens) decayed by wood decay fungi Chang Hyun Cho, Kwang Ho Lee, Yoon Soo Kim (Chonnam National University, South Korea). Structural, chemical and topochemical investigations on archaeological wood Uwe Schmitt, Katarina Čufar, Per Hoffmann, Juan-Eduardo Diaz-Vaz, Adya P. Singh, Gerald Koch (BFH, Germany).
	11.30-12.30	Lunch
	12.30-13.00 13.00-13.20 13.20-13.40	Session 4: Biotechnological applications Chair : Uldis Viesturs, LS IWC; University of Latvia, Latvia Mechanisms of microbial wood degradation as biotechnological tool for wood biotechnology. Kurt Messner, Karin Fackler, Ewald Srebotnik, Chularat Krongtaew, Takashi Watanabe (Vienna University of Technology, Austria). Screening of wood-degrading fungi for pretreatment of contaminated soil Lara Valentin-Carrera, Grit Kabiersch, Marja Tuomela, Kari Steffen, Pekka Oivanen, Riina Rantsi, Annele Hatakka (University of Helsinki, Finland) A comparison of the effect of chitosan at cellular level against two wood degrading fungi Tripti Singh, Damiano Vesentini, Adya P. Singh, Geoffrey Daniel (Ensis, Wood Processing, New Zealand)
	13.40-14.10	Coffee
	14.10-14.30 14.30-15.00 15.00-15.20	Session 4: Biotechnological applications Chair: Paul Ander, SLU, Sweden Characterization of a hydroxyl-radical-producing glycoprotein and its presumtive genes from the white-rot basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium Hiromi Tanaka, Kenta Matsumura, Ryuta Kido, Shuji Itakura, Akio Enoki (Kinki University, Japan) Biotechnical applications of wood-rotting fungi and their oxidative enzymes. Anelle Hatakka (University of Helsinki, Finland) Rational designing of Cel5A (Thermotoga maritima) for improved catalytic activity of cellulases. Shobana Arumugam Mahadevan, Hyeun-Jong Bae (Chonnam National University, South Korea)
	19.00	Conference Dinner, Lido Recreation Centre
Wednesday, August 29	9.00-9.30 9.30-9.50	Session 5: Methods of wood biodeterioration studies Chair: Jody Jellison, University of Maine, USA New approaches for the analysis of fungal decay in lignocellulose. Kenneth E. Hammel, John Ralph, Daniel J. Yelle (USDA Forest Products Laboratory, USA). Correlation between modulus of elasticity, mass loss and FTIR spectra of blue stained and brown rotted softwood Miha HUMAR, Bojan Bučar, Franc Pohleven (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia).
	9.50-10.20	Coffee
	10.20-10.50 10.50-11.10	Molecular characterization of wood decay fungi Olaf Schmidt (BFH, University of Hamburg, Germany). Identifying fungal communities – a molecular approach Ulrika Rĺberg, Andreas O. Rapp, Carl Johan Land (SLU, Sweden)
	11.10-12.00	Closing and Poster prize
	12.00-13.00	Lunch

Information for presenters

The scientific programme will consist of 30 and 20 min lectures and a poster session.

Oral Presentations

Oral presentations will comprise invited and offered lectures. Invited lectures will be a maximum of 25 min, with 5 additional min allocated for questions. Other offered lectures will be a maximum of 15 min, with 5 additional min allocated for questions.

Posters

All posters should be on display during the Conference, so should be mounted on Monday morning. Poster size should be 1m x 1m. Each poster must be headed with its title, and the name(s) and address(es) of author(s). The text and illustrations should be easily readable from a distance of 2 m. Materials for fixing posters will be provided. The staff will be available to assist you with poster mounting. Poster presenters should attend the session on Monday evening.

Poster prize