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From: P35067@COM.QZ.SE (Siegfried Michael Schoberth)
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Date: 21 May 89 06:31:00 GMT
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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.

Sender: Siegfried Michael Schoberth
Subject:  Jamaica Connection

This is more a "Cocktail"- than an A.D.- question:
Does anyone happen to know an address which could be contacted in Jamaica, if ne
c
essary, by two two youngsters (aged 19, fond of Bob Marley and Reggae), just rel
e
ased from high school, and eager to travel the US and Jamaica during July this y
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ar. One of the explorers is my son. Of course, if this address happens to be an
a
naerobic digestion site, I would be the more glad to learn about it. Some years
a
go, I had contact with Bacardi Rum about their anaerobic filter in Puerto Rico (
t
hen the biggest anaerobic filter in the world, 3.5 million gallon i.e. 13249 cub
i
c m). Maybe in Jamaica a similar site exists?

Regards, Siegfried M. Schoberth