On Friday Feb. 25, Dominik Weixler, PhD student of our partners at Ulm University and first author of our recent milestone paper on production of prenisin using Corynebacterium glutamicum, successfully defended his PhD thesis with „summa cum laude“. Dominik’s PhD … Continued
Together with partners from NTNU, NMBU, DTU and Saarland University, our P-brick team at Ulm University has managed to successfully produce nisin, our second demonstrator product, using C. glutamicum. In their study by Weixler et al. (https://rdcu.be/cGEPK) they decribe a two-step … Continued
The first iFermenter conference held digital. Planned to be in Ghent, Belgium, it was transformed to Digital conference. The meeting held important circular bioeconomy updates and decision, and plenary speakers from the companies BASF, CORBION and Alginor gave presentations about strategies related to … Continued
iFermenter team presented the results of upscaling study of iFermenter in Chemical Engineering days, 22 November 2021. In the workshop, the upscaling the concept and results of iFermenter to industry level was presented by M.Sc students Anne Stenså, Helene Bø … Continued
Our teams in NTUN and TUW has just published a high quality paper in the Journal of Process Control, Elsevier. The article deals with ‘soft sensor’, an estimator that integrates data across many probes and devices, and produces reliable results … Continued
The iFermenter Team is dedicated to communication of our results with the European public, companies and the EU commission, we are regularly participating in communication activities. Today 28 Sept 2021, we participated in Pitch Perfect in Brussels, and met 23 … Continued
Today Ulm University has showcased a press release related to our recent paper in Metabolic Engneering. You can find it on the main page of the university homepage (www.uni-ulm.de) and under the following link: https://www.uni-ulm.de/home/uni-aktuell/article/wenn-bakterien-etwas-gegen-bakterien-habengenetisch-veraenderte-bodenbakterien-stellen-antibiotika-alternative-her/ Keep up the good work!
Our teams just published in Metabolic Engineering (impact factor 10!) an article that summarizes the production of the antimicrobial Pediocin by C. glutamicum, one major objective in iFermenter. “Establishing recombinant production of pediocin PA-1 in Corynebacterium glutamicum” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2021.09.002 Congratulations for … Continued
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