Consortium

The (initial) consortium at the kick-off meeting at REPER in Brussels

Consortium at the B-Ligzymes meeting in Siena, Italia, in Summer 2022!

The B-LigZymes consortium is composed of twelve partners from nine academic organizations, six from Europe, Portugal (ITQB NOVA), The Netherlands (RUG), Italy (UNIVE, UNITOV, UniPV), and Germany (TUBS), one in the United States (NCSU) and one in Argentina (INQUIMAE and INTEQUI both from CONICET), and three non-academic organizations located in Spain (Zymvol), Netherlands (GECCO) and Finland (METGEN). 

The consortium is built around three collaborative groups:

enzyme discovery and characterization (RUG, TUBS, GECCO, INQUIMAE, UniPV),

enzyme engineering (ITQB-UNL, RUG, ZYMVOL), 

lignin enzymatic depolymerization, fractionation, and valorization (METGEN, UNITOV, UNIVE, INTEQUI, NCSU).

The collaboration across these areas allows bridging biocatalysis with lignin valorization, an interdisciplinary area with great potential to expand and drive long-term collaborations.

Coordinator

ITQB NOVA, Portugal

Responsible person: Lígia O Martins

EU beneficiaries

University of Groningen, RUG, The Netherlands
Responsible person: Marco Fraaije

Technical University of Braunschweig, TUBS, Germany
Responsible person: Anett Schallmey

Università Ca' Foscari, UNIVE, Italy
Responsible person: Claudia Crestini

Universita degli studi di Pavia (UniPV), Italy
Responsible person: Andrea Mattevi

ZymVol Biomodeling SL, Spain
Responsible person: Maria Fátima Lucas

MetGen Oy, Finland
Responsible person: Liji Sobhana

GECCO BIOTECH BV, Netherlands
Responsible person:  Nikola Lončar

Third-country Partners

INQUIMAE, a joint research and high education institute of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and the National Research Council (CONICET), Argentina
Responsible person: Daniel Murgida

INTEQUI, a joint research and high education institute of the University of San Luis (UNSL) and CONICET, Argentina
Responsible person: Martín Palazzolo

North Caroline State University, NCS, United States of America
Responsible person: Marko Hakovirta