Polymer Biotechnology (POLYBIO)

The problem of environmental pollution generated by the massive use of plastic materials derived from industry has attracted much interest in the implementation of sustainable processes involving the use of biomass derived from wastes, gas wastes and atmospheric CO2 to generate alternative materials to these high consumption products. The group is focused on the production of bioplastics and other bio-based materials using tools of molecular biology and metabolic engineering, combined with new omic technologies and synthetic biology. Although our projects involve several polymers of biotechnological interest like bacterial nanocellulose, many of our research activities focus on the production of bacterial polyesters, including metabolic and regulatory networks of these routes. We base on these studies to design bioproduction processes with industrial aims.