We have the pleasure to invite you to the lecture “Hunting for antibiotics and anticancer compounds made by bacteria”. Microorganisms have provided humankind with a vast array of natural products with invaluable applications in medicine and agriculture. The advent of widespread genome sequencing has shown that bacteria have the genetic potential to make many Read more about Lecture June 27th: “Hunting for antibiotics and anticancer compounds made by bacteria”[…]

Duesseldorf, 09 April 2019 Last week the partners of the BIG-Cluster project CROSSBEE – Cross-border Bio-Economy Education – met for a final project meeting to evaluate the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ever produced by a consortium of nine partners. The partners from the Belgium region of Flanders, the Netherlands and the German state Read more about Massive Open Online Course on Biobased Materials produced by nine partners successfully finished[…]

Our newest article in ‘Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology’ describes the development, optimization, and application of a more throughput technique—based on 24-deep well plates— for a new Starmerella bombicola strain producing bolaform sophorolipids.Find out more right here!

We have the pleasure to invite you to a talk given by Prof. John Morrissey, senior lecturer in Microbiology and leader of a research group in Yeast Biotechnology at University College Cork. Prof. Morrissey currently coordinates two large multi-partner EU-funded H2020 projects – CHASSY and YEASTDOC and was recently (2019) appointed Editor in Chief of Read more about Talk on sugar transporters in Kluyveromyces yeasts by Prof. John Morrissey – Register now![…]

Many bacterial pathogens attach to biomaterials such as catheters, and grow to form biofilms. These surface-associated multicellular communities cause infections that are difficult to eradicate. Antiadhesion therapy represents an attractive alternative to antibiotics to prevent and treat biofilm infections. Using single-cell experiments, we show that glycolipids feature unusual high-efficiency and broad-range antiadhesive properties against Gram-positive Read more about New article in Nanoscale Horizons![…]

On Tuesday 5th February prof. Soetaert participated in the session “Developing sustainable markets: the role of the circular economy in the EU” at the EU Industry Days 2019, organised by the European Bioeconomy Alliance (Brussels). The debate circled around the challenges and opportunities of a full uptake of the bioeconomy in Europe, where prof. Soetaert Read more about EU Industry Days 2019 @ Brussels[…]

  The CARBOSURF project addressed the full exploitation of two very promising types of specialty biochemicals. These include glycolipid biosurfactants (new-to-nature sophorolipids, rhamnolipids, mannosylerythritol lipids (MELs) and xylolipids) as well as specialty carbohydrates with high market interest. These innovative molecules were developed for the food, cosmetic and nutraceutical industry in close cooperation with relevant major Read more about CARBOSURF – Results in Brief published article on CORDIS[…]

As an early Christmas present, our newest book chapter on ‘Microbial Biosurfactants: From Lab to Market’ was published in the CRC Press book on microbial biosurfactants  on December 19th. For more information: click here.

          The MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) “Biobased Products for a Sustainable (Bio)economy”, in which InBio.be has participated, is starting in January 2019! Enroll now and learn all about sustainable biobased products.  

Chromosomal integration of biosynthetic pathways for the production of high‐value chemicals is a necessity to develop industrial strains with a high long‐term stability and a low production variability. Here we present SIRE, Serine Integrase Recombinational Engineering, a novel methodology which combines the ease of recombinase mediated cassette exchange (RMCE) with the selectivity of orthogonal att sites of the Read more about SIRE: A versatile toolbox for genome editing[…]