Sumários

Strain optimization for biofuel production

27 abril 2015, 17:00 Miguel Nobre Parreira Cacho Teixeira

Biofuels other then bioethanol. Examples of strain design for biofuel production: biodiesel and biobutanol. Genome-scale metabolic reconstruction. Aplications of such models to the use of E. coli and Clostridium acetobutylicum in butanol production.


Microbial exopolysaccharide production. Alginate and Gellan gum

21 abril 2015, 15:00 Arsénio do Carmo Sales Mendes Fialho

Production of two bacterial exopolysaccharides, namely alginate from pseudomonas aeruginosa e gellan gum from Sphingomonas elodea.


Microbe-based production of carboxylic acids

21 abril 2015, 13:30 Nuno Gonçalo Pereira Mira

Examples of metabolic and genetic engineering strategies used to improve microbe-based production of carboxylic acids.


Microbial exopolysaccharide production. Alginate and Gellan gum

21 abril 2015, 08:00 Arsénio do Carmo Sales Mendes Fialho

Production of two bacterial exopolysaccharides, namely alginate from pseudomonas aeruginosa e gellan gum from Sphingomonas elodea.


Microbe-based production of carboxylic acids

20 abril 2015, 17:00 Nuno Gonçalo Pereira Mira

Usefulness of carboxylic acids as add-value chemicals. 

Common problems found in the establishment of microbe-based processes for the production of carboxylic acids.
Value of S. cerevisiae as a host system for the production of carboxylic acids.