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UNIMAN Open Day

Manchester Institute of Biotechnology Open Day 2016 The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) organises and contributes to a range of outreach, public engagement and widening participation events throughout the year in accordance with the University of Manchester’s social responsibility remit. The latest of these was the institute’s 5th A-Level Open Day which, this year, featured…

! ROBOX PI to deliver keynote talk at chemical production conference http://www.chi-peptalk.com/biocatalysts-conference/

http://www.chi-peptalk.com/biocatalysts-conference/  Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Second Annual Biocatalysis and Bio-Based Chemical Production Biocatalysis, Enzyme and Metabolic Engineering, and Synthetic Biology January 9-10, 2018 | Hilton San Diego Bayfront | San Diego, CA     Advances in protein engineering, the advent of new chemistries and custom-made biocatalysis are leading to broader industrial enzyme across a range of…

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Press Release from Summer School

Medieval Site Hosts Modern Cutting-Edge Science! The idyllic surroundings of the 14th century Carthusian monastery Certosa di Pontignano, the official conference center of the Universitá degli studi di Siena (Italy), hosted an international Summer School on Biocatalysis as a Key Enabling Technology from 3 – 6 October 2017. Chaired by Professor Fessner from the Technische…

Some More ROBOX Publications

RUG made a significant contribution to this paper on enzyme improvement Manipulating the stereoselectivity of the thermostable Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenase TmCHMO by directed evolution Abstract   UAB have led the publication of a collaborative ROBOX paper An immobilized and highly stabilized self-sufficient monooxygenase as biocatalyst for oxidative biotransformations Full Paper UNIMAN publish a new paper on…

Big advance in P450 chemistry

An article from Chemical and Engineering News in which directed evolution yields an enzyme that oxidizes alkenes in a process called anti-Markovnikov alkene oxidation that is difficult to achieve because the reaction is energetically unfavorable   https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i41/Enzyme-beats-catalysts-oxidation-game.html