Detalle de: Harnessing the power of nature through productive microbial consortia in biotechnology: Measure, Model, Master (PROMICON)

Co-PI CSIC: Juan Nogales.

The aim of the PROMICON project is to learn from nature how microbiomes function through latest and novel methods in order to steer their growth towards production of biopolymers, energy carriers, drop-in feedstocks and antimicrobial molecules. PROMICON will use the existing microbiomes and then use them in top-down and bottom-up approaches for industrial application. SBG group is developing new computational tools to extract information from metagenomics data and construct highly curated metabolic models from environmental microbiomes. Additional SBG is engineering synthetic autotrophic microbial consortia to produce a new generation of functionalized bioplastics.