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A team of researchers from BERG-iBB led by Joaquim Cabral and Pedro Fernandes is part of an international consortium awarded with an EraNet-Industrial Biotechnology grant to fund the multilateral research project "Polybugs - In vivo cascades for sustainable access to monomers of high volume polymers". The project aims at the development/improvement of a microbial cell factory platform for the biotechnological production of polymer precursors. It considers various aspects with regard to the expression of heterologous pathways, reaction and reactor engineering. The project combines systems biology and industrial biotechnology/process engineering. Apart from iBB, the consortium includes research groups from Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ, team leader), ifu Hamburg GmbH, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the industrial partner Evonik Creavis GmbH.
Photo: Cultures of Pseudomonas spp. by Howard F. Schwartz [CC BY 3.0], Colorado State University, Bugwood.org, via Wikimedia commons.
