Fascination of Plants Day 2013 - 
Open house at KBC
Fascinerande växters dag firas med

Öppet Hus vid KBC, Linnaeus väg 6
Lördag 18 maj, kl 14-18

För andra året i rad arrangeras Fascinerande växters dag (Europas "Fascination of Plants Day") vid Kemiskt Biologiskt Centrum. Evenemanget koordineras av European Plant Science Organisation, EPSO, och genomförs den 18 maj 2013 med aktiviteter på en rad platser i Europa.
Programmet: www.fascinerandevaxtersdag.se
 

The Swedish Metabolomics Centre, which is located at KBC, was inaugurated by Marianne Sommarin, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research at Umeå University, and Johan Schnürer, Deputy Vice- Chancellor for Cooperation vid Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences. 

The opening was celebrated with a two-days symposium. Invited speakers from United Kingdom, Japan and collaboration partners from Chalmers University of Technology, SLU Uppsala and Umeå, and Umeå University gave a beautiful overview over the present possibilities of metabolomics research and service.

A group of researchers at the Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, has been granted SEK 10 million funding from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Energy Agency and the Kempe Foundations. Their research aims to improve processes for thermochemical conversion of biomass.

Christoffer Boman, Markus Broström, Florian Schmidt, Dan Boström and Rainer Backman will now be able perform several basic research projects. One project will study toxic effects of aerosols from various biofuel systems. The second project will focus on chemical aspects of ashes from forestry and agricultural resources. The third project aims to develop laser spectroscopic methods for the detection of potassium and phosphorus, as well as for measurement of the temperature in combustion gases. Within the fourth project, a collaboration with scientists at Luleå University of Technology, special reactors will be constructed to study rapid thermochemical biomass conversion.

Press release of Umeå University (in Swedish only)
Article in the local newspaper "Västerbottens Kuriren"

Picture: Christoffer Boman and Robin Nyström study thermal conversion of biomass in the combustion laboratories at Chemical Biological Centre. Picture by Johan Gunséus.