Research group Sustainable Biotechnologies and Bioprospecting
The role of Biotechnology and Bioprospecting is to pave the way for a Sustainable development.
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Sustainability is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. For us, this involves the development of fossil free materials (e.g. bio-plastic, bio-based coatings) and chemicals, use of energy (e.g. bio-fuels), better solutions for agriculture and food/feed resources and CCUS technologies. This is coupled with Bioprospecting, where we operate a systematic search for useful products from bioresources, mainly microorganisms, that can be developed further for commercialization and overall benefits of society.
Research areas
- Bioeconomy and biorefinery
- Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
- Computational biology and bioinformatics
- Enzyme engineering
- Bioprospecting
- Sustainable materials
- CCUS and gas fermentation
- Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in a one-health perspective
- Microbial ecology (biofilms and water safety)
- Industrial biotechnology
Our approaches (some of):
- Enzyme discovery for fine chemical synthesis and material degradation using data mining and (HTS) functional screening.
- Cell factories development and protein engineering, including molecular modelling and protein/peptide-protein interaction simulation.
- Functional metagenomics
- Fermentation and bioprocesses Aerobic, anaerobic and gas fermentation of a diverse range of biomass.
- Generation and screening of natural and synthetic biodiversity (molecular libraries)
- Biofilm studies coupled with water safety/quality assessments and antimicrobial resistance in food production and environment.
Employees in the research group for Biotechnologies and Bioprospecting