The quest to find novel antibiotics is currently very difficult in a time where antimicrobial resistance is on the rise. By causing 25.000 deaths in the European Union alone, it is the sixth major death cause in the EU. In case…
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News article on (bio)plastics and industry (Dutch)
In De Standaard verscheen dit weekend (6 en 7 oktober 2018) een artikel over de huidige problemen rond pastic vervuiling en hoe de industrie er momenteel mee omgaat. Ook professor Soetaert mocht zijn mening geven over dit actuele probleem. U…
New article published in Colloids and Interfaces on ‘Expression of Chimeric Cytochrome P450s’
‘Classical’ biosurfactants produced by Starmerella bombicola contain oleic acid as the incorporated hydrophobic group. However, other chain lengths can (to a certain content) be incorporated by feeding the yeast with substrates of alternative chain lengths, be it with a lower efficiency. …
Kick-off event Applisurf industry user group @ 8 October!
The AppliSurf INDUSTRY USER GROUP Kick-Off Event will be organised on 8 October 2018 at 9.30am in Ghent (Belgium). More information on this event can be found here. Registration is free but mandatory. Companies that wish to be involved in the user group can still join this VIS…