Objective
Our goal is to advance bio-based technologies for energy and chemical production so that these industries can once again become environmentally sustainable. For this, we need to train the next...
Overview
In the summer of 2015, Mart Loog, Professor in Molecular Systems Biology at the University of Tartu, received a prestigious grant from the European Research Area (ERA). The ERA Chair...
Strategic plan
The University of Tartu Institute of Technology (TUIT) was established to provide research labs and a stimulating environment for returning post-docs and start-up labs. Although the research groups at the...
FUNDING
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº668997.
Board
Petri-Jaan Lahtvee, PhD Senior scientist/Group leader lahtvee ut ee Dr. Petri-Jaan Lahtvee finished his Ph.D. in Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, on multi-omic’ energy efficiency studies on industrially relevant...
Professor of Molecular Systems Biology
Research Fellow in Molecular Biology
RESEARCH
Projects
In our research, we are going to combine experimental and computational approaches to create efficient yeast-based cell factory platform strains for bio-based chemical production. We will focus on fundamental studies...Publications
2020 Pinheiro MJ, Bonturi N, Belouah I, Miranda EA, Lahtvee PJ (2020). Xylose Metabolism and the Effect of Oxidative Stress on Lipid and Carotenoid Production in Rhodotorula toruloides: Insights for...PEOPLE
Combining the best scientists and professionals we take a step forward and discover new areas in Synthetic Biology. Check out who is in working in the lab and who is in the board. If you...