WP3: Improving culture efficiency of already isolated and cultured microorganism
Type of activity: RTD
WP3 Lead partner: Universite de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO)
WP3 Lead contact person: Gwenaelle LeBlay
Contact details of coordinator: gwenaelle.leblay@univ-brest.fr
Objectives: To improve the cultivation efficiency of existing and newly isolated marine microorganisms with proven/suspected biotechnological potential but with low growth efficiencies or bioactive metabolites production. This includes the (high-throughput) optimization of culture media and cultivation conditions (e.g. using the MicroDish), systems mimicking the natural environment, new substrates, syntrophy, mixed cultures for greater stability, smart use of cell-to-cell communication. To develop efficient harvesting protocols for organisms with biotech potential.
Partners playing a role in this WP:
- Stichting Koninklijk Netherlands Instituut voor Zeeonderzoek (NIOZ)
- Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA)
- Universite de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO)
- Aquapharm Biodiscovery (AQP)
- Cyano Biotech (CBT)
- Microdish BV (MD)
- Matis OHF (MATIS)
- The University of Warwick (UW)
- Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
- Universita Degli Studi di Milano (UMIL)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Pharmamar (PHM)
- Leibniz-Institut - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ)
- Fermentalg (FERM)
