News and Press releases
- How methane and CO₂ can help tackle plastic pollutionCountry Overshoot Day marks the date each year when a country would have exhausted its annual biocapacity budget — if everyone in the world lived like its population. At Leipzig University’s b-ACTmatter research and transfer centre, innovative approaches are being explored to address the growing scarcity of resources in the face of a rising global population — through sustainable production processes and circular economy technologies.
- M-ERA-NET project REPLACER at the D-A-CH Algae Summit 2024 in Bern.Valentina Schmitz, PhD student in the BIOMAT junior research group of the Research and Transfer Center b-ACTmatter, presents the M-ERA-NET project REPLACER at the D-A-CH Algae Summit 2024 in Bern. Current developments in the algae industry and research will be discussed at the event. It aims to promote networking and the exchange of experience between…
- Achieving sustainable feed proteins with “REPLACER”In the REPLACER project, researchers are developing so-called hybrid living materials. It is about microbial proteins with a low carbon footprint, high acceptance and affordable costs – through the use of greenhouse gases.
Publications and Research Paper
- Capillary biofilm reactorsCapillary biofilm reactors (CBRs) are attractive for growing photoautotrophic bacteria as they allow high cell-density cultivation. Here, we evaluated the CBR system’s suitability to grow an artificial consortium composed of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and Pseudomonas sp. VBL120.