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Development and Application of Molecular Genetics in Food Relevant fungi

Reference	BBS/E/F/04331220
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Ian Roberts
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Quadram Institute Bioscience
Department	Quadram Institute Bioscience Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	42,474
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2000
End date	31/03/2002
Duration	24 months

Abstract

IFR has an established strength in the development and application of molecular genetics contributing to the manufacture of high-quality foods via improved food materials, ingredients and processing aids. This work involves the developement of novel strains of food-use micro-organisms and exploitation of the 'cell factory' concept. Much of our research involves interaction with industry and it represents a successful example of IFR technology transfer. In order to maintain this activity, some core support is being used to sustain our expertise and scientific status in the molecular genetics of lactic acid bacteria and filamentous fungi as well as in metabolic engineering. Areas of the activity include protein secretion from Aspergillus, genome analysis in Lactococcus lactis and metabolic engineering, including novel appraoches to the production of vanillin and polyunsaturated fatty acids

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Committee	Closed Committee - Plant & Microbial Sciences (PMS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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