RESEARCH LINES
- Metabolic engineering in Escherichia coli and Lactobacillus plantarum
- Metabolic engineering for carbohydrate and glycolipid production
- Protein engineering: glycosidases and glycosyltransferases
- Enzymatic synthesis of complex carbohydrates such as those in breast milk
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Biological and Biotechnological Chemistry
Its activity focuses on the identification and molecular analysis of proteins and enzymes as therapeutic targets, together with the design and application of enzymes in biocatalysis and biotechnology with microorganisms.
LATEST PROJECTS
Glycoengin (Engineered Glycozymes in biocatalysis, metabolic engineering and bio-orthogonal chemical biology)
Application of Carbohydrate Active Enzyme (or Glycozymes) by means of protein engineering and metabolic engineering to the generation of technological tools in glycoscience and the production of high-value glicoconjugates for health, nutraceuticals and food sectors.
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Research Group Link:
Biological and Biotechnological Chemistry (GQBB)
PaCosValor (Producción biotecnológica de oligosacaridos de quitosano con estructura definida como inmunoestimulantes)
Escalado y valorización dequitooligosacáridos parcialmente acetilados como nutracéuticos que estimulan el sistema inmunológico.
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Research Group Link:
Biological and Biotechnological Chemistry (GQBB)
LINKED NEWS
Doctoral thesis
Metabolic Engineering for Glycolipid Production
04/05/2023
Dr Marc Caballé recently defended his doctoral thesis at IQS, in which he explored metabolic engineering as a biological alternative for the production of glycolipids with high biological interest such as α-galactosylceramide.
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Doctoral thesis
Study of the Structure and Function of Proteasomes
14/06/2022
Dr Bernat Coll defended his doctoral thesis at IQS on 21 February, in which he characterized the SUMOylation of the Rpn5 protein within the context of the proteasome, with an additional study of protein degradation and the potential of chimeric proteins as therapeutic tools.
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Doctoral thesis
Obtaining HMOs through Enzymatic Synthesis
16/03/2022
Dr. Mireia Castejón recently defended her doctoral thesis at IQS, where she has managed to obtain the tetrasaccharide compound lacto-N-tetraose, present in breast milk, by enzymatic synthesis. This opens the door to obtaining new biocatalysts for the synthesis of HMO oligosaccharides by this route.
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News
Reconocimiento digital de estructuras químicas dibujadas a mano
03/06/2021
IQS Tech Transfer y la empresa Vision Arcanum colaboran en un proyecto para el reconocimiento digital de estructuras químicas dibujadas a mano, en pantalla táctil o en papel, utilizando modernas técnicas de visión por ordenador (Modern Computer Vision Techniques) basadas en Machine Learning.
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7 Questions for...
MAGDA FAIJES
05/02/2021
Dra. Magda Faijes, Profesora del Departamento de Bioingeniería y miembro del Grupo de Química Biológica y Biotecnología de IQS School of Engineering.
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