Year: 2018

He recently presented highlights of our work from Genome-scale Metabolic Modeling package of IIMENA project at COBRA conference in Seattle, USA from 14-16 October, 2018. We are developing modeling tools with specific attention towards biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. These tools can add unique value allowing to expand applications of fast growing COBRA methods to improve production of antibiotics. It was very inspiring to listen to talks and poster presentations from some of the leaders in this highly relevant  field to his PhD project.

Check the new article In This Issue which work is explained by scientists from KAIST.

Check the new article regarding Navigating genetic diversity by painting the bacteria red published by scientists from KAIST working in the iimena-project.

A research group at KAIST presented a novel biosensor which can produce diverse, high-level microbial cell factories. The biosensor monitors the concentration of products and even intermediates when new strains are being developed. This strategy provides a new platform for manufacturing diverse natural products from renewable resources. The team succeeded in creating four natural products of high-level pharmaceutical importance with this strategy. This article was published so far at three different places. Find them below. - KAIST news - EurekAlert - ScienceDaily

Professor Sang Yup Lee from KAIST tries to solve worldwide problems with some of Earth’s tiniest inhabitants: microorganisms. Check the article here.

The European Researchers Night is an event coordinated by the European Commission aiming at bringing together researchers and society in cities around the world. The Granada 2018 edition took place on 28th September and involved over 500 researchers performing hands-on experiments and practical workshops. Fundacion MEDINA participated in the event with a workshop where people had the chance to learn the crucial role played by microbial natural products to combat infectious diseases, and the importance of R&D projects such as IIMENA to discover new antibiotics. Video of the event available here.

We are looking forward to host the 3rd International Workshop for early career scientists on Genome Mining for Natural Products, which will take place from 12.-14. September at DTU Biosustain. 30 participants from 8 different countries will get two days of intensive training using the state of the art bioinformatics tools antiSMASH and NORINE and will have the opportunity to directly interact with the developers of the software.

Scientists working in the iimena-project just published a review article on the potential of genome-scale metabolic reconstructions for optimizing antibiotics biosynthesis in actinomycetes. The article, which was published in the "Biotechnolgy J." can be downloaded here or requested from the authors.

The MEDINA team represented by Francisco Javier Ortiz-López, Daniel Carretero-Molina, Caridad Díaz, Mercedes de la Cruz, Ignacio González, Fernando Reyes, Francisca Vicente and Olga Genilloud was present at the DECHEMA 3rd European Conference on Natural Products; September 2-5, 2018. Frankfurt, Germany where the team presented a poster with title New antibacterial compounds from MEDINA´s actinomycetes collection.