The 2008 working group meetings of the COST 868 action on
Biotechnical Functionalisation of Renewable Polymeric Materials

will be held in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, April 16-19, 2008.
The working programme is planned from April 17 morning till April 18 late afternoon. The participants are expected to arrive on April 16 afternoon and to depart on April 19 morning. The workshop will be organized by Dr. Peter Biely and his group from the Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Local Organiser: Peter Biely chempbsa@savba.sk

General requests:
cost868@tugraz.at
T: ++43 316 873 8312

The focus of this workshop will be on novel developments in the areas of WG 1-3

1 Functionalisation and coating

2 Recombinant and natural functional microbial biopolymers

3 Smart polymers

Abstracts: for posters and oral presentations can be submitted until February 8 , 2008 using the abstract template to cost868@tugraz.at

Format for posters: width: 120 cm, height: 100 cm

Location: Conference and Educational Centre (CEC)
Bárdošova 33, SK 833 12, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Accomodation: We have booked accommodation in three hotels listed in the registration form. One of them is identical with the conference venue (CEC). Its capacity is 45 rooms. 15 rooms are booked in hotel Taxis, which is located about 10 –15 minutes by walk from the conference venue. Both offer a standard accommodation. We expect that CEC will be convenient for the most of participants. The first 45 registered participants will be allocated in CEC, others in hotel Taxis. For participants requiring high standard accommodation, 8 rooms are reserved in hotel Brix, which is also located about 15 minutes by walk from the Conference Venue. Number of participants of the workshop is limited to 60.
The deadline for registration form submission is February 28, 2008.

Registration form

Further information on Bratislava