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Group of Environmental Biotechnology

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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Conversion of forestry sugar residual streams to antimicrobial proteins by intelligent fermentation (iFermenter)



Conversion of forestry sugar residual streams to antimicrobial proteins by intelligent fermentation (iFermenter)

iFermenter project aims to recover high value compounds from sugar residuals, and to turn fermentation processes converting these residual to antimicrobials cost effective. The project has a potential to contribute to the global bio-based market by exploiting residual sugars (€0.5 / kg) to recover their high value compounds (€40-200 /kg) and, with the remaining sugars, produce several high value antimicrobials (€50- 150 /kg) by intelligent fermentation. These products have substantial economical and social impact. Our strains and technology will solve some of the major difficulties in up-scaling.