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ERA CoBioTech Call Office State Research Agency (AEI) Manuel Sánchez-Blanco
+34 916038447 era-ib@aei.gob.es
Technical helpdesk for the submission system Project Management Juelich Dr. Petra E. Schulte, Irina Kobrin, Dr. Christian Breuer ptj-cobiotech@fz-juelich.de
We are interested in participating to a project which is aimed to develop innovative biotechnological processes to fractionate and to valorize lignocellulosic biomass into high-added value molecules forvarious appilcations (cosmetic, food, feed).
We can offer our the knowledge on :
- the lignocellulosic biomass (chemical and structural characterization),
- the cultivation of microorganisms (pure cultures, co-cultures) onto lignocellulosic biomass as carbon source
- the enzymatic fractionation of different lignocellulosic biomass (home-made enzymes : hemicellulases, carbohydrate esterases, oxydo-reductases, ...)
- the enzymatic functionalization of sugars (monosaccharides, oligosaccharides) coming from the biomass fractionation: synthesis of surfactants (sugar esters, alkyl glycosides) and of biologically active glycosides.
The Chaire AFERE (Agro-ressources FERmentation Enzymes) involves 10 scientists who are specialists of microbiology, molecular biology and biocatalysis and specialists in the lignocellulosic biomass characterization.
The chaire develops some innovative biotechnological approaches for the fractionation and valorization of lignocelluloses into various molecules of interest. We are interested in studying the physiology of lignocellulolytic bacteria in presence of various lignocellulosic biomasses presenting contrasted compositions. Molecular approaches (transcriptomic, proteomic) are developed to investigate the enzymatic strategies used by the microorganisms for the fractionation of the biomasses. The objective is to produce enzymes (glycoside hydrolases, oxydo-reductases, …) dedicated to fractionation as pure enzymes (cloning, heterologous expression) or as enzymes cocktails (secretomes). We also develop microbial co-culture (bacteria and/or fungi) onto lignocellulosic biomass as carbon source for the production of secondary metabolites.
We also develop enzymatic functionalization of pentoses to produce surfactants (alkyl glycosides, sugar esters) and biologically active xylosides.