OXIPRO is delighted to welcome onboard Helena Balfagon Campos, who has recently started as a junior researcher at LEITAT (CE-Applied Microbiology & Biotechnologies). Helena was in Barcelona, Spain, where she built her biology basis at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. After her graduation, she successfully undertook a master’s degree in microbiology for which she …
Delegates from OXIPRO’s coordinating organisation NORCE recently participated in the Bioflavour Conference, held this year from 27th – 30th of September in Frankfurt, Germany. Over 150 participants from more than 17 countries represented different industries, research institutes and universities at the conference, which was organised to bring recent biotechnological developments in the synthesis and …
LEITAT is a private technological centre located in Terrassa, Spain with more than 110 years’ experience in R&D, technology transfer and industrial innovation services. The center’s expertise brings value to a wide range of industries and sectors through dedicated R&D and tech transfer services, and it applies research in the fields of chemistry, energy, environment, …
For responsible research to be made meaningful, it must be communicated to all relevant stakeholders in the most effective ways and at the most opportune times. This is not a easy task, yet stakeholder engagement is fundamental to project success and achieving the expected impact. Importantly, it is often mandatory in a third-party funding context. …
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OXIPRO is excited to announce our first joint publication with a sister project, FuturEnzyme. Titled ‘EP-pred: A Machine Learning Tool for Bioprospecting Promiscuous Ester Hydrolases,’ the paper presents a computer model to predict enzyme’s promiscuity from a sequence alone. It is the result of a successful collaborative effort involving co-authors Ruite Xiang , Ana Robles-Martin and Victor …
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The OXIPRO team at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre is delighted to welcome a new team member, Martin Floor. Born in the Netherlands, Martin was raised in Chile, where he successfully completed his BSc and MSc in Biochemistry at the University of Chile, the latter focussing on the production of recombinant proteins and Biotechnology. In his …
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OXIPRO is delighted to welcome onboard a new researcher, Rasmus Moen Ree, who has joined the team at NORCE. Rasmus’s research background is in molecular biology, which he studied at the University of Bergen, Norway. After successfully defending his PhD thesis in 2017, he has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in Bergen since then. …
OXIPRO partner Marco Fraaije (RUG) recently took part in the Netherlands Biotechnology Congress, held on 4 October 2022 at the Corpus Congress Centre in Leiden. In a full programme of keynotes, plenaries and parallel sessions, Marco chaired a session on food, which looked at biotech solutions currently underway to address global challenges, among other research …
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OXIPRO partners are proud to announce the publication of their first scientific paper. Titled “Structural Elucidation and Engineering of a Bacterial Carbohydrate Oxidase”, the paper is the result of the ongoing fruitful collaboration between project partners University of Groningen (RUG), led by Marco Fraaije, and Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), led by Victor Guallar. Also …
OXIPRO partner Rolco, represented by Research and Development Director, Panos Kotsakis, recently showcased OXIPRO’s work in a presentation titled: “Future outlook on the HomeCare industry: Sustainable product development” at the 2nd Annual Sustainable HomeCare Products Forum, Frankfurt, Germany. The talk focused on issues surrounding weight efficient sustainable raw materials; better, less, or no packaging; product compaction; …
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