We are glad that another COST Action with our participation on NON-CONVENTIONAL YEASTS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BIOPRODUCTS received funding. We are looking forward for the collaboration.
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ERA Chair at FEBS3+ conference
FEBS3+ is a FEBS supported regional conference, where at least 3 geographically close member states have to participate. In 2019 FEBS3+ conference will be held in Riga and organized together with Lithuanian and Estonian Biochemical societies. SynBioTEC ERA Chair Petri Lahtvee was giving a talk and introduced the advances in […]
Two BSc defenses from SynBio group
Dainis Ivanovs from the Scinece and Technology program and Martin Põhjakivi from the Informatics program defended their Bachelor degree with the thesis work developed in SynBio group. Congrats to both of you!
Tobias defended his MSc in Würzburg University
Tobias Butelmann, a visiting student from Würzburg University in Germany, defended his Master’s degree on a topic developed in SynBio – 3D Printing of Yeast-laden Hydrogels for Improved Bioprocess Efficiencies. Congratulations, Tobi!
ERA Chair is lecturing at the Advanced Course on Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology
The Advanced Course on Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology, taking place on August 25-29, 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden, is organized by the Systems and Synthetic Biology division at Chalmers University of Technology, and is intended for PhD students, postdocs and industrial researchers that are interested in computational aspects of metabolic engineering. The aim […]
Meet us at PYFF2019
We are participating in the 7th Conference on Physiology of Yeast and Filamentous Fungi, taking place on June 24-27, 2019 in Milan, Italy. See you there!
Ben Sanchez is giving a talk on Metabolic modeling of yeast
⚡️Introducing Benjamin Sanchez Barja⚡️ Benjamin is a computational biologist working at Chalmers University of Technology. On Friday, June 7th, he is going to give a seminar on “GECKO: reconciling proteomics data into computational scaffolds of metabolism” at TÜ tehnoloogiainstituut/UT Institute of Technology 11 a.m., room 144 🌱See you there!🌱
SynBio course at UNICAMP, Brazil
During the first week of April, Petri Lahtvee was visiting Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, hosted by Prof. Everson Alves Miranda), Brazil, giving talks and a course series on ‘Combining synthetic and systems biology for the design of efficient cell factories’ for PhD and MSc students. The visit was supported […]
Lorena Lima defended her PhD
Lorena Lima, visiting PhD student from Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil defende her PhD with the thesis entiteled SCREENING OF 2-PHENYLETHANOL (2-PE) PRODUCER YEASTS AND OBTAINMENT OF Kluyveromyces marxianus STRAINS WITH IMPROVED SYNTHESIS AND TOLERANCE TO 2-PE (supervisors: Petri-Jaan Lahtvee and Wendel Batista da Silveira). Congratiulations, Lorena!
ERA Chair organized workshop at the Yeast Genetics Conference in August 2019
29th International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology is taking place on August 18-22, 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden, where ERA Chair in Synthetic Biology is organizing a synthetic biology workshop. ICYGMB has already 55 high level confirmed speakers and an excellent program introducing novel directions in yeast microbiology. The […]