Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeast or brewer’s yeast) is a popular microbial host in industrial biotechnology. Most synthetic biology tools to tune pathway expression focus on controlling transcription, whereas post‐transcriptional regulation is often overlooked. In this review, we discuss regulatory elements…
Science Figured out: HMO’s@ InBio.be
Article: “Efficient in-situ separation design for long-term sophorolipids fermentation with high productivity”
Until now, the production of microbial biosurfactants has been limited to the use of first-generation (food) substrates. Moreover, the results on sophorolipids yield and productivity reported by state-of-the-art fed-batch processes for sophorolipids production remain unsatisfactory and lead to a significantly…
New article published on glucolipid synthesis in S. bombicola!
Glucolipids (GLs) are glycolipid biosurfactants with promising properties, but up until today these interesting molecules could only be produced using an engineered Starmerella bombicola strain(∆ugtB1::URA3 G9) producing GLs instead of sophorolipids, albeit with a very low average productivity (0.01 g/L.h).…
New article: ‘Production of long-chain hydroxy fatty acids by Starmerella bombicola’
Check our newest article in FEMS Yeast Research! In this article, the one-step microbial production of hydroxy fatty acids by S. bombicola was accomplished by the selective blockage of three catabolic pathways through metabolic engineering. Successful production of 17.39 g/l (ω-1)…
InBio.be present @ Biosurfactants International conference Stuttgart
Last week our rock-star LipoActives team joined the biosurfactants congress in Stuttgart – Germany. They return with new inspirations and a lot of motivation for their state-of-the-art sophorolipid research!
Column: Weg met dat plastic
Click here to read Prof. Wim Soetaert ‘s last column, published in Petrochem 09-2019.
Check our new book chapter in ‘Biobased Surfactants – 2nd Edition’
Biobased Surfactants: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications, Second Edition, covers biosurfactant synthesis and applications and demonstrates how to reduce manufacturing and purification costs, impurities, and by-products. Fully updated, this book covers surfactants in biomedical applications, detergents, personal care, food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics,…
Enroll now for online course on ‘Biobased Products for a Sustainable (Bio)economy’!
Have you ever asked what “biobased” means or wondered about the key aspects in developing and commercializing biobased products? This course will answer those questions and more; highlighting the opportunities, hurdles, and driving forces of the bioeconomy. Enroll now on…
Article: Efficient sophorolipids production using food waste
In this article, the production of biosurfactant sophorolipids from several (food) waste streams was investigated, using the non-pathogenic yeast Starmerella bombicola. From a preliminary screening, restaurant food waste emerged as the most suitable feedstock compared to bakery waste, textile…