Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bionet!com.qz.se!P35067 From: P35067@COM.QZ.SE (Siegfried Michael Schoberth) Newsgroups: bionet.technology.conversion Subject: Sender: Siegfried Michael Schoberth Message-ID: <8905211846.AA20049@net.bio.net> Date: 21 May 89 07:16:00 GMT References: <419120@QZCOM> Sender: daemon@NET.BIO.NET Reply-To: Siegfried Michael Schoberth Lines: 43 Subject: New Conferences FEMS SYMPOSIUM Microbiology and Biochemistry of Strict Anaerobes Involved in Interspecific Hydrogen Transfer MARSEILLE, France, September 12-14, 1989. Universite de Provence, CNRS - ORSTOM. Organized by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies and the French Society for Microbiology. Here is only a small (very incomplete!) choice of oral presentations which might be of interest to those working on anaerobic digestion (feel free to ask for more information, including posters): G. GOTTSCHALK (Goettingen): Molecular hydrogen and energy conservation in methanogenic and acetogenic bacteria. D.MOUNTFORT & H.F.KASPAR (Nelson): Substitution of H2 acceptor organisms with chemical hydrogenation system in syntrophic methanogenic cocultures. T.LEISINGER (Zurich): Approaches to gene transfer in methanogenic bacteria. J.P.BELAICH, P.HEITZ, M.ROUSSET & J.L.GARCIA (Marseille): Beginning with the biochemistry of anaerobic benzoate degradation by syntrophic bacteria. A.J.B.ZEHNDER, A.J.M.STAMPS (Wageningen): Ecological impact of syntrophic fatty acids and alcohol oxidation. S.M.SCHOBERTH, U.NEY & H.SAHM (Juelich): Anaerobic degradation of furfural by defined mixed cultures. J.BENSTEAD, D.B.ARCHER & D. LLOYD (Cardiff): Role of hydrogen in the growth of mutualistic methanogenic cocultures. J.DOLFING (Groningen): Kinetics of two complementary hydrogen sink reactions in a defined 3-chlorobenzoate degrading methanogenic consortium. H.C.DUBOURGIER & G.PRENSIER (Villeneuve d'Ascq): Role of hydrogen transfer in methanogenic biofilms. A.PAUSS, F.A.MACLEOD & S.R.GUIOT (Montreal): Thermodynamical and microbiological evidence of trophic microniches for propionate degradation in a methanogenic sludge-bed reactor. K.MATSUDA, K.NAKAMURA, Y.KAMAGATA & E.MIKAMI (Hyogo): Isolation and characterization of an anaerobic bacterium degrading 4-chlorobutyrate. A.BLOMGREN & B.SVENSSON (Uppsala): Methane production from acetate at high ammonium concentrations.