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New BioPort Publication

BioPort’s research paper “Identification and importance of mitochondrial citrate carriers and ATP citrate lyase for glycolipid production in Starmerella bombicola” has been published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Key Points: • Starmerella bombicola is an industrially relevant microbial cell factory… Continue Reading →

New Publication in Applied Genetics and Biotechnology

BioPort’s research paper “Identification and importance of mitochondrial citrate carriers and ATP citrate lyase for glycolipid production in Starmerella bombicola” has been published in Applied Genetics and Biotechnology. Key Points: • Starmerella bombicola is an industrially relevant microbial cell factory… Continue Reading →

Warm welcome to our new colleague: Liam Jenkins

Although we haven’t physically met yet in these Corona-times, we wish to welcome our newest colleague Liam Jenkins! Hopefully we can share the lab soon. Want to know more about Liam? Check out our Team page.

!! PhD opportunity to grasp !!

BioPort is hiring: We are currently looking for a talented PhD-student to be hired on a project running for about 1 year, and willing to apply for a personal FWO scholarship to extend his/her research. Detailed information can be found… Continue Reading →

Congratulations to BioPort member Liv Teresa Muth!

Liv applied for a Strategic Research scholarship from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and this was granted last week. BioPort is happy to have Liv in the team for the next four years!

BioPort presented at SMYTE 37

BioPort member Silke Claus gave a presentation with the title “Exploring the transportome of the biosurfactant producer Starmerella bombicola” at the Small Meeting for Yeast Transport and Energetics (SMYTE) in Nove Hrady, Czech Republic. Find out more on this past… Continue Reading →

Read our most recent research paper

BioPort’s research paper “Redirecting the lipid metabolism of the yeast Starmerella bombicola from glycolipid to fatty acid production” was published in the Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, and can now be consulted online. Part of the work was also… Continue Reading →

Proud to announce our latest publication

As we could not find a nice review covering transport of hydrophobic compounds in yeast, we decided to write one ourselves. Silke Claus is the first author of this highly appreciated work. Read our manuscript “Protein-facilitated transport of hydrophobic molecules… Continue Reading →

BioPort presented at the latest Yeast Lipid Conference

BioPort member Sylwia Jezierska gave a talk at the latest Yeast Lipid Conference in Ljubljana. She presented the latest advaces of her PhD which are now submitted for publication.

BioPort at the LIST Tech Day in Luxembourg

Prof. Van Bogaert gave a plenary talk on synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology at the LIST Tech Day 2019 in Luxembourg last week (June 20, 2019).

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