Lecture and Exhibition: Picture it! The Potential of Halophytes in Bioenergy Production

26 January 2018, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.
The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jägerstr. 22–23, 10117 Berlin

The AGYA Science Jinn sets out to explain scientific revelations to young and forever young readers. His first mission is pictured in the graphic novel “The Rise of the Incredible Salty Salicornia Power Plant” about the next botanic superhero of our times – the powerful Halophyte. Halophyte plants are able to survive and flourish in environments with high salinity levels. They grow in many regions of the Arab World and Germany, but they are rarely utilized. AGYA members Ahmed Debez, Carsten Montzka, Skander Elleuche, and Jan Friesen investigated on an interdisciplinary level, how halophytes could play a role in the field of sustainable energy production in their paper "Facing the challenge of sustainable bioenergy production: Could halophytes be part of the solution?". Now, they have turned their scientific paper into a science comic.

The launch event features keynote lectures, a poster exhibition of the first AGYA science comic, as well as innovative salty culinary treats.

More information is available here.