Foreword

In the frame of the Italian Space Agency program called CAB (Controllo Ambientale Biorigenerativo), the first important event and milestone is this Workshop on Bioregenerative Life Support. The workshop objectives are to determine state of art and trends in Bioregenerative Life Support around the world, and to help in shaping the Italian program itself.
The workshop participation is restricted to invited speakers and attendees. There is no fee.
Within CAB, Alcatel Alenia Space – Italia (AAS – I) is the Prime Contractor towards ASI. Partners for the first phase of the project are the University of Napoli Federico II and the University of Torino.

Language
The official language of the Workshop is English. No translation is planned.

 

Roles and References
CAB WS Technical Organizer
Riccardo Rampini
AAS-I, +390117180758
riccardo.rampini@aleniaspazio.it

CAB Study Manage
Cesare Lobascio
AAS-I, +39 011 7180234
cesare.lobascio@aleniaspazio.it

Organizing Secretariat
(including rooms booking in Villa Gualino,
a block of rooms is reserved at special price)

Elisabetta Lombardini
Fondazione per le Biotecnologie
viale Settimio Severo, 63 - 10133 Torino (I)
tel. +39 011 6600187 - fax +39 011 6600708
elisabetta.lombardini@fobiotech.org


Monday, December 18


10:30 Opening session (Chair: Vittorio Cotronei TBC)

  • Introductory remarks and salutation

  • Overview of the ASI M&B program (Vittorio Cotronei, ASI)

  • Overview of the CAB project (Cesare Lobascio, AAS-I), including presentation of Scientific Committee

 

11:15 Overview of Bioregenerative Life Support: Major Programs (Chair: C. Lasseur)

  • ESA, Melissa – Overview, trends, open issues (Christophe Lasseur, ESA)

  • NASA Program  – Overview, trends, open issues (Mark Kliss, NASA-AMES)

  • Russian Program  – Overview, trends, open issues (V. Ilyin,  IBMP)

  • Japanese Program – Overview, trends, open issues (Yasuhiro Tako, IES)

 

13:30 Lunch break


15:00 Bioregenerative Life Support: Projects and Issues - I (Chair: Stefania De Pascale)

  • Higher plants for food in Melissa (Dominique Van der Straeten, Univ. of Gent)

  • Space plant biology, from CHECS to the future (Massimo Maffei, Cebiovem, Univ. of Torino)

  • The Recyclab project (Riccardo Rampini, Alcatel Alenia Space - Italia)

  • Space2Tex – An environmental control Technology Transfer case study (Alessandra Monero, D’Appolonia SpA)

  • Space GreenHouse, and beyond (Albino Maggio, Univ. Napoli Federico II)

 

17:30 - End of the session

Bus transfer from Villa Gualino to Torino
Visit of CEBIOVEM: Centre of excellence for biosensing


20:00 / Social event - Dinner at restaurant Spada Reale (Via P. Amedeo 53, Torino)

 

 

Tuesday, December 19


9:00 Bioregenerative Life Support: Projects and Issues - II (Chair: Massimo Maffei TBC)

  • Technological applications of photosynthetic nanostructured proteins for space applications (CNR Roma, MT Giardi)

  • Extreme environment greenhouse in Antarctica (Carlo Arberto Campiotti, ENEA)

  • Waste and modelling aspects within MELISSA (Title TBC - Gilles Dussap, Univ of Clerm. Ferrand)

  • Air and water regeneration and monitoring (Title TBC – Politecnico di Torino, Uni-TO: Onida, Garrone, Sarzanini)

 

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break


11:15 Bioregenerative Life Support: Projects and Issues - III (chair: Cary Mitchell TBC )

  • Morpho-functional alterations of higher plants in modified gravity (Gioavanna Aronne, Univ. Napoli Federico II )

  • Agrobiology issues for long-term space missions (Francesco Canganella, GREAB, Univ. of Tuscia)

  • The Agrospazio experience (Title TBC, Valentina Bornisacci, Aerosekur)

  • Overcoming Obstacles to Closing the Loop on Space Human Life Support (Cary Mitchell, NSCORT ALS, Purdue University)

 

13:15 Lunch (Scientific Committee Lunch / Meeting)

 

14:15 Parallel working groups

  • System and Architecture (Chair: M. Kliss TBC)

    •  Selection of reference architecture

    • Analysis, metrics

  • Regenerative Technologies  (Chair: C. Lasseur)

    •  Air

    • Water

    •  Wastes

    • Environmental Monitoring and Control

  • Biological Elements (Chair: Cary Mitchell TBC)

    •  Plant physiology

    • Plant productivity

    •  Micro-organisms

    • Compatibility Space Environment

  • Demonstrators (Chair: Raimondo Fortezza - MARS Cente)

    •  ground (lab, extreme)

    • Flight, planetary

 

15:30 Summary of the working groups (presentation), discussion, and finalrecommendations to the CAB Team

 

16:30 End of the workshop

 

17:00 – 18:00 CAB Workshop Wrap-up & Progress Meeting (CAB Team and ASI only)

 

Free evening

 

Wednesday, Dec 20

Technical Interchange Meeting with Melissa
(Participants: AAS-I, Melissa team ESA + TBD, ASI – J. Sabbagh)

9:00 / Start

Agenda on separate file

16:00 / End


  

 

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