In de kijker: Spin-off Inbiose is Ambassadeur van de Oost-Vlaamse Gazellen!
In 2013 werd het startschot gegeven voor Inbiose, een spin-off van InBio die voortvloeide uit de onderzoekslijn van de HMOs. Nu 6 jaar later zijn ze uitgeroepen tot Ambassadeur van de Oost-Vlaamse Gazellen bij kleine bedrijven! Proficiat Inbiose! Bekijk het interview van prof. Soetaert, CEO en medeoprichter van Inbiose, hier. Geïnteresseerd in wie de prijs Read more about In de kijker: Spin-off Inbiose is Ambassadeur van de Oost-Vlaamse Gazellen![…]
New article on applying food waste for sophorolipid production
This study evaluates the techno-economic feasibility of sophorolipid (SL) production process that co-utilizes food waste, glucose and oleic acid as substrates. Two variables are considered in terms of (a) Plant construction: Purchasing equipment either from the US or Mainland China and (b) Production: to produce SL crystals or a concentrated SL liquid/syrup. Hence, four scenarios Read more about New article on applying food waste for sophorolipid production[…]
Check our newest review on 5’UTRs!
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 found in the 5′ untranslated region (UTR) and their influence on protein synthesis. Next to Read more about Check our newest review on 5’UTRs![…]
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 high cost per kg of the product. With an aim to address these problems, this Read more about Article: “Efficient in-situ separation design for long-term sophorolipids fermentation with high productivity”[…]
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). In this study, we found that all glycolipid biosynthetic genes and enzymes were downregulated in Read more about New article published on glucolipid synthesis in S. bombicola![…]
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) linked hydroxy fatty acids was obtained by the successive blockage of the sophorolipid biosynthesis, the Read more about New article: ‘Production of long-chain hydroxy fatty acids by Starmerella bombicola’[…]
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.