ECHO – Engineering Cupriavidus necator for the Hydrogen-efficient production of a pyrOne building block from industrial gas streams

Acid Catalyzed Production of Green Butadiene from Butanediols

APPLISURF: Development, characterisation and application of a portfolio of new biosurfactants

A roadmap for Flanders with focus on Europe (feasibility study KET)

A workflow to create Chimeric Robust Chassis strains: an aminoglycoside case study

Biosurfing: New-to-nature biosurfactants by metabolic engineering: production and application

Biosynthetic processes with glucansucrase enzymes: scale up and product characterization

Biotechnological Production Platform for new Tailor-made Glycolipid Biosurfactants

Biotechnology for a sustainable economy (Bio-Economy)

Boosting the production of innovative bola amphiphiles by applying integrated omics analyses.

Bringing innovative industrial biotechnology research to the market

Characterization of multidomain enzymes to enable microbial production of specialty carbohydrates

Construction and optimization of the production pathway of chitosan

Creating deigner bugs for the production of specialty carbohydrates

Development of a biotechnological production platform for complex glycans and glycoproteins

Development of Advanced BIOREFinery Schemes to be INTEGrated into Existing Industrial Fuel Complexes (BIOREF-INTEG)

Development of a generic platform for the production of speciality carbohydrates (Type 3)

Development of an Orthogonal Expression system in yeast for efficient microbial product synthesis (OrthoExpress)

Development of a sustainable production process for microbial biosurfactants on food waste

Development of a versatile aminoglycoside production platform in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Development of molecular tools and strains for a generic biosurfactant production platform (type 3)

Directed evolution of sucrose phosphorylase for application in glycosylation reactions

Efficient biosynthesis of innovative branched sophorolipids through elucidation and engineering of the biosynthetic pathway.

EFFICIENT SYNTHESIS OF OMEGA (ω) GLYCOSIDE BIOSURFACTANTS

Elucidation and exploitation of the CYPome of the platform organism Starmerella bombicola

Expanding the donor specificity of sucrose phosphorylase by directed evolution

Fermentative production and use of mannosyl Erythritol lipid biosurfactants

Fermentomics: development of an integrative real-time metabolomics approach for the enhanced production of biochemicals: a case study for innovative biosurfactant molecules

Gene cluster identification and microbial biosynthesis of iminosugars (IMINOGENE)

Generations II: Innovation partnership Flemish renewable energy industry

Genetics and physiology of bimodal protein targeting in yeasts. Studies on the basic mechanisms and possible therapeutic developments.

GREEN-B2B-2: Acid Catalyzed Production of Green Butadiene from Butanediols

Historical climate variability at high latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere an extension of the "Pole-Equator-Pole" (PEP) paleoclimate transects across South America and Australasia.

LACTIC ACID AND BIOSURFACTANTS SOURCED FROM SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL (FOOD) WASTE FEEDSTOCKS AS NOVEL FUNCTIONAL INGREDIENTS FOR CONSUMER PRODUCTS

Metabolic and Enzyme Engineering for the Biotechnological Production of Partially Acetylated Chitosans

Metabolic engineering for the creation of a platform organism with an increased nucleotide sugar pool

Microbial production of iminosugars

Microbial production of imino sugars

MiniBioreactors in support of a generic metabolic platform

Mobilising citizens for vital cities Ljubljana-Gent-Zagreb-Brno-Porto

Mobilising the enzymatic potential of hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria and the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to create a powerful cellular production platform for lipid-derived industrial materials

Modifying the sophorolipid fatty acid tail by genetic engineering of Candida bombicola

Mutational analysis of the glycosylation reactions catalysed by GH-13

New processes for the fermentative production of glycolipid biosurfactants and specialised carbohydrates

Novel biocatalysts for the production of glycosides

Novel specialty sugar enzymes and products through metagenomics

Production of bio-detergents rhamnolipids by a non-pathogenic host

Production of hydroxylated fatty acids with the aid of the yeast Starmerella bombicola

Promotor analysis and development of new toolboxes for the fine tuning of the metabolism in different microorganisms

RNA stability engineering as a new synthetic biology tool: an HMO case-study

Starmerella bombicola as a platform organism for the production of tailor-made bio-surfactants

Starmerella bombicola sophorolipid MDR transporter: from fundamental studies to improved production of novel biosurfactants

Study of the phosphoenpyruvate-pyruvate-oxalacetate node in Eschericia coli based on multi-omics data and mathematical models

Technological Services – Industrial Biotechnology

The development of an anti-immune evasion therapy for FIV

Towards the sustainable production of a new generation biodegradable plastics: development of a two-stage fermentation for the efficient conversion of CO2 and H2 into PHA

Unravelling the regulation of secondary metabolite clusters in non-conventional yeasts: sophorolipid biosynthesis by Starmerella bombicola as a case study

Valorization of organic side streams – Development of 2nd generation technologies for the biobased economy in Flanders.

Exploring the valorization potential of Starmerella bombicola lactone esterase: a novel enzyme for green catalysis

Optimization of Synthetic Pathways Using Metabolons for Enhanced Production of Biochemicals