Objective:
The aim of the project is to attract human resources to science by forming an interdisciplinary group in systems biology, in which computer modelers and experimenters will cooperate.
Research direction: development, optimization and application of dynamic, quantitative computer models in yeast and bacterial metabolic engineering, design of biotechnological processes and development of their control. The experiments will not be based on descriptive notions of the metabolism of microorganisms, but on detailed computer models of metabolism.
Project No. 2009/0207/1DP/1.1.1.2.0/09/APIA/VIAA/128
Source of funding: European Structural Fund
Project period: 01.12.2009. – 30.11.2012
Projcet budget: 1 900 000 EUR
Project coordinator: Professor Egils Stalidzans
Project participant from group: Senior researcher, Dr.sc.ing. Agris Pentjušs, Agris.Pentjuss@gmail.com
Partners
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia (Uldis Kalnenieks)
- Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava, Latvia (Egils Stalidzans)
- Faculty of Material Science and Applied Chemistry, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia (Juris Vanags)
Results
Pentjuss, Agris, & Kalnenieks, U. (2013). Assessment of Zymomonas mobilis biotechnological potential in ethanol production by flux variability analysis. Biosystems and Information Technology, 3(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.11592/bit.140502
Pentjuss, A., Odzina, I., Kostromins, A., Fell, D. A., Stalidzans, E., & Kalnenieks, U. (2013). Biotechnological potential of respiring Zymomonas mobilis: A stoichiometric analysis of its central metabolism. Journal of Biotechnology, 165(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2013.02.014