Lab News
Vijay Raghavendran (former LEMeB member) and Dr. Gombert's collaborative work entitled: "Blocking mitophagy does not improve fuel ethanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" is now available on BioRxiv. (1 July 2021)
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Pamela Bermejo, a PhD student at LEMeB, Dr. Vijay Raghavendran (a former postdoc of Dr. Andreas K Gombert), and Dr. Gombert, have published a mini-review that will be part of the 'Thematic issue on yeast synthetic biology' in the July issue of FEMS Yeast Research. The paper is titled: 'Neither 1G nor 2G fuel ethanol: setting the ground for a sugarcane-based biorefinery using an iSUCCELL yeast platform'. “In this mini-review, Pamela Bermejo (a PhD student in the Bioenergy program) and co-authors put forward a new paradigm for a sugarcane-based biorefinery, in which an iSUCCELL yeast chassis is used to convert cellobiose and sucrose into fuel ethanol via intracellular routes”
Congratulations Pamela on the paper. Soon you will be defending your thesis and writing up the experimental work.
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Dr. Andreas Gombert and Dr. José Madeira (a former postdoc) have posted their latest research involving the lactose loving and thermophilic yeast, in the preprint server 'BioRxiv' on 27 April 2020. The work was done in collaboration with researchers from Argentina. "A biorefinery concept for the production of fuel ethanol, probiotic yeast and whey protein from a by-product of the cheese industry"
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Suéllen Azambuja, a PhD student in LEMeB has published a review on biobutanol in World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. Butanol production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae: perspectives, strategies and challenges.
Congratulations, Suéllen.
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“Former LEMeB alumnus Dr. Wesley L Marques is a co-author of the award winning article in FEMS Yeast Research in 2019: https://fems-microbiology.org/fems-journals-announce-article-award-winners-2019/
Congratulations, Wesley!”