Our teams in USC just published the journal article “Process and Environmental simulation in the validation of biotechnological production of nisin from waste”, in the Biotechnological Engineering Journal, accepted 14th June 2021. The article discusses the environmental impacts of producing … Continued
Despite the Covid-19 situation, our project teams met (online) to discuss the advances, challenges and strategies in our project, evaluating the first 3 years of the project. We coordinated the activities that are coming for the next year. We look … Continued
Our partners at the BBEPP, together with other partners in the iFermenter team have ran upscaling experiments. The antimicrobial production was tested and upscaled from mL scales to laboratory 2-3L scales, and then to 150 L steel container scale in … Continued
In deep sadness we inform that our dear friend and an important team member Judith Becker has passed away. We had to bury her at the age of 40 in her small home village Kutzhof on Monday, 27th April 2021. … Continued
The iFermenter teams have filed a patent application, C. glutamicum as a platform that produces antimicrobials. The patent application number 2105707.0 was filed 21 April 2021, comprising the main work of iFermenter: to convert residual sugars into high value antimicrobial peptides. We … Continued
iFermenter conference meeting was supposed to take place in the beautiful city of Wien, Austria during 15-16th June 2020. Despite the Corovid-19 situation, we successfully held a digital meeting during 2 days with around 30-40 participants, discussing the challenges of … Continued
6th February 2020, Our leaders of the work packages 1-8 have met in Brussels, reviewed progression, discussed activities and reviewed the project plans. Our teams across europe will take the appropriate actions according to the decisions of the WP leaders. … Continued
The iFermenter team travelled to Sao Paulo state, Brazil during January 2020 to explore the use of alternative biomasses for our fermentation process. Currently, we test molasses that are bioproducts of the sugar industry in brazil. We will publish our … Continued
The iFermenter team has discussed the results of the project with several scientists in federal universities of Sao Carlos and in Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) during Desember 2019 and January 2020. The purpose of the discussions were to explore a … Continued
iFermenter presented its results and project booth in the BioBased industry consortium meeting in Brussels, December 3-4th 2019. Our Representative was Haakon Holck, our IT and optimal control expert.