RESEARCH GROUP
Food Biotechnology
Updated: June 2025
Group members
Production of future food and chemicals must rely on renewable resources, in a sustainable, circular process. Novel microbial cell factories can produce food, feed and biochemicals such as lipids and carotenoids from side products of agriculture, forestry and biofuel production.
Microbial oils and protein can replace soya protein and –oil or palm oil. Food fermentation can provide plant- and fungal-based alternatives to meat. We also investigate safety aspects of these novel products.
- We have a broad competence on diversity of microorganisms, especially non- conventional yeasts, and their potential application for food, feed and other biotechnological applications
- We develop methods for controlled cultivation of microbes, quantification of lipids and carotenoids in yeasts and cell fractionation
- To understand the physiology of our cell factories we are establishing methods for genome and transcriptome analysis. This has also a great impact on fundamental science as yeasts are important model organisms to understand eukaryotic physiology and genetics