Author: iimena

PhD student Fernando Román-Hurtado from MEDINA participated at the XXVII Conference of Spanish Microbiology Society 2019 from July 2-5th, 2019 in Malaga, Spain. He presented a poster with title: Identification of the biosynthetic pathway of a new glycolanthipeptide produced by Streptomyces sp. CA-170360 by genome mining with contribution from his colleagues Marina Sánchez-Hidalgo, Francisco Javier Ortiz-López and Olga Genilloud.

Olga Genilloud the Scientific Director of Fundación MEDINA in Granada Spain, was a speaker at the Novel Antimicrobials and AMR Diagnostics 2019 Conference from 14-15 March in Berlin Germany. She had a talk about Antibiotic discovery from microbial natural products.

PhD student from MEDINA participated at the I Congreso de Investigadores del PTS from February 13-15, 2019 in Granada, Spain. He presented a poster with title: New analogues of nosokomycin and polycyclic xanthones with antibacterial properties from MEDINA´s actinomycetes collection with contribution from his colleagues Francisco Javier Ortiz-López, Caridad Díaz, Mercedes de la Cruz, Ignacio González, Fernando Reyes, Francisca Vicente, Olga Genilloud.

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.