Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP190100852

Funded Activity Summary

Engineering cyanobacteria for high-value flavours and fragrances production. Engineering the metabolism of cyanobacteria for industrial production of flavours and fragrances has great commercial potential. Cyanobacteria capture more than 25% of the planet’s carbon. Due to their native metabolism and capacity to express complex plant proteins, they represent an attractive Synthetic Biology platform for the biosynthesis of flavours and fragrances. Combining physiological strain characterisation and ‘omics studies, new Synthetic Biology strategies and models will be developed. The project aims at engineering a suite of modified freshwater and marine cyanobacteria for flavours and fragrances biosynthesis. The project aims at enabling solar biomanufacturing to underpin the emergence of an advanced Australian bioeconomy.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 16-11-2020

End Date: 31-12-2024

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $463,494.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Bioprocessing, Bioproduction and Bioproducts | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Synthetic Biology | Systems Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate Change Mitigation Strategies | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Atmospheric Composition (incl. Greenhouse Gas Inventory) |

Other Keywords

Atmospheric Composition (incl. Greenhouse Gas Inventory) | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Bioprocessing, Bioproduction and Bioproducts | Climate Change Mitigation Strategies | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Synthetic Biology | Systems Biology

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