Studies on a bacterium found in camel crickets is capable of breaking down lignin, the material that makes wood tough which can help the development of biofuels and chemical manufacturing using woody type materials. Lignocellulose is a renewable and abundant energy source and efficient syntheisis of lignocellulosic biofuels in a sustainable and economically manner would…
The EU are publishing a lot of ROBOX outcomes and results on their website based on our reporting. This includes an overview in six languages “Delivering a robust set of oxidative enzymes as biocatalytic tools for green chemistry” where you can get an overview of results and impacts. You can see more result summaries at…
This two days of cutting-edge research on July 30th & 31st in the idyllic setting of one of Oxford’s most historic colleges – Worcester College. ChemBiOx 2019 is a student-led chemical biology and medicinal chemistry conference organised by the inaugural cohort of the University of Oxford’s doctoral training partnership with GSK and the Francis Crick…
Read the latest ROBOX paper from our partner RUG – “What to sacrifice? Fusions of cofactor regenerating enzymes with Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases and alcohol dehydrogenases for self-sufficient redox biocatalysis” This is the latest of our publications that demonstrate the usefulness of our enzymes in factsheets and these reactions have been used to synthesize multi-kilogram quantities of…
As you may have seen the ROBOX project has been developing a method to produce Vanillin. Our results have been sent for publication as a paper “Enzymatic synthesis of vanillin catalyzed by an eugenol oxidase” which will be available soon. These results have also been highlighted in our detailed factsheets and the scaled up reaction…
ACIB recently had a visit from the Nanoversity kindergarden to experience biotechnology.
10 kids at the age of 5-6 (pre-school year) and 2 kindergarden teachers visited. They experienced hands on how to cultivate yeast on agar plates and in shake flasks, they watched microorganisms under the microscope and extracted colors from plant material.
The new EU research programme is taking shape as a mix of academia–industry collaborations and discovery science is proposed but its budget of €100 billion needs to be approved. Like Horizon 2020 under which ROBOX was funded this new programme will fund collaborations between academia/industry as well as prestigious discovery science but will include some…
ROBOX has been developing scaleable routes to improved routes to vanillin (see our publications) This report by University of Stuttgart demonstrates the great interest in using oxidative enzymes to produce vanillin. Vanillin is one of the most widely used flavouring compounds worldwide as a flavour ingredient for food and beverages as well as a fragrance…
Our ROBOX partner Givaudan who are committed to growing their efforts in the areas of biotechnology and biocatalysis especially after the success of the ROBOX project are currently searching for a (Senior) Research Scientist (PhD), specialized in fermentation, and a Senior Research Technician (also suitable for BSc or MSc), specialized in fermentation and/or biocatalysis: To…
To find out more about ROBOX enzymes and reactions read these detailed one page descriptions of enzyme characterizations or reaction parameters. ROBOX Technology Information 1. P450 Aromatic Hydroxylations 2. P450 API Metabolites on Larger Scale 3. P450 Hydroxylation of Alkenes 4. BVMO oxidation of trimethyl-cyclohexanone 5. BVMO oxidation of cyclopentadecanone 6. AOX vanillin synthesis from…