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ERA Chair holder Petri Lahtvee participated at the Estonian Bioeconomy workshop and Bioeconomy conference – creativity and sustainability for all, taking place on February 27-28, 2018 in Tallinn. Both events were organized by SEI Estonia. The conference brought together industry, politicians, researchers and consumers for an important discussion on bioeconomy […]

We are hiring! We are looking for a talented Postdoctoral researcher in Bioinformatics to join our team in Tartu, Estonia. Read the full description of the position: here Apply via email: lahtvee [at] ut.ee or via Researchgate

ERA Chair in Synthetic Biology is part of the COST Action – Statistical and machine learning techniques in human microbiome studies. The kick-off meeting of the Action took place on February 22, 2018, in Brussels, Belgium. We are looking forward for a fruitful collaboration.

Seminar: Getting more value from biomass: Overcoming the toxicity of hydrolysates for more effective fermentation processes Solange I. Mussatto, group leader DTU Biosustain, Technical University of Denmark Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability Thursday, 14.02.2019 16.00 PM Nooruse 1. Room 121 Solange I. Mussatto is Head of Research Group at […]

We are launcing our new Master Program in BioEngineering. Info: https://bioengineering.ut.ee/ Video: https://youtu.be/_N9k5RWeUtg

Paola Monteiro de Oliveira, our new Ph.D. student from Brazil working on valorization of lignocellulosic biomass, received a full stipend from Dora Plus Programme. Congrats and welcome to SynBio :)

The 3rd Estonian-Latvian Systems Biology Meeting ‘LATEST III’ in Tartu, Estonia on December 12th 2018 You are kindly invited to participate in the 3rd Estonian-Latvian Systems Biology Meeting ‘LATEST III’ in Tartu, Estonia on December 12th 2018! This will be the third time after meetings in 2009 in Tartu and […]

Petri Lahtvee gave a Business Lunch seminar at the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Estonia on November 8th, 2018 in Tallinn. SCCE – the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Estonia was founded in 1991 and today the Chamber unites more than 130 member companies and organizations, all with an interest […]

Petri Lahtvee introduced opportunities and ethical questions related to the fast development of Synthetic Biology at the TEDx Tartu – innovation conference introducing inspiring ideas. More information about the event: http://tedxtartu.org/

In the framework of 7th Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference 2018 held in Helsinki, Finland, ERA Chair team was visiting Kajaani Cellulosic Ethanol Production Plant by St1 – a Finnish energy company owning the St1 service stations’ chain in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Poland. The Cellunolix® plant project in Kajaani represents a novel technology, […]