Economic and ecological mannosylerythritol lipids (MEL) production by Pseudozyma aphidis through the use of waste and side streams as feedstock, innovative downstream processing and genetic engineering.

In this project, the production of mannosylerythritol lipids (MELs) by Pseudozyma aphidis will be studied, with a specific focus on the production from cheap waste and side streams and an ecological purification. Hereby we seek to make the multifunctional, ecological but expensive biosurfactants to be economical more viable. To realize this project, genetic knockout mutants, affinity chromatography and fermentative test will be used.

Keywords:PSEUDOZYMA APHIDIS

Disciplines:Genetics, Systems biology, Biomaterials engineering, Biological system engineering, Biomechanical engineering, Other (bio)medical engineering, Environmental engineering and biotechnology, Industrial biotechnology, Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering, Molecular and cell biology