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BioNylonUp: Microbial Upcycling of Mixed Plastic Waste into Bio-based Nylon Precursors
Founder | Chief Scientific Officer at Saemyra
Ulm, Germany
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Work packages:
- Molecular docking-guided engineering of plastic-deconstructing enzymes. Selective activity profiling against mixed waste streams
- Metabolic engineering of microbes (bacteria or yeast)
- Construction of upcycling pathways. PET/PHA/PLA hydrolysates → adipic acid, glutaric acid, 5-aminovaleric acid, 4-aminobutanol
- Purification and characterization of target molecules
- LCA and TEA
Our previous work:
- Regarding adipic acid (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-021-01647-7 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2018.10.012 and https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193503))
- Regarding PHA and PLA (https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.12066))))))
- Regarding metabolic engineering (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-016-0566-8
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2017.06.010 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2012.12.008 https://doi.org/10.1128/ecosalplus.esp-0010-2015
and more)
More on previous work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=we8XQi0AAAAJ&hl
TRL: 3 → 5
Topic
- HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-07
Type
- Partner looking for consortium
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