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Perli, T. (author)
The increase in world population together with an unsustainable and fossil fuel-based economy are at the root of the significant increase in the average global temperature since the pre-industrial era. Switching to a more sustainable and circular bio-based economy is one of the main pillars included in the Paris agreement aimed at reducing green...
doctoral thesis 2021
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Shomar Monges, H. (author)
For millennia, humans have used microbes to produce industrial products of social and economical value through fermentation processes. In recent years, the application of engineering principles to microbiology have dramatically expanded our ability to modify and optimize microbes for the production of a wide variety of commercial products from...
doctoral thesis 2019
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Kozak, B.U. (author)
Metabolic engineering – the improvement and addition, by genetic modification, of industrially relevant properties of microorganisms with respect to catalysis, transport and regulatory functions – is a well-established method for development of more cost-effective and ‘green’ industrial processes. Rapid depletion of oil reserves and a growing...
doctoral thesis 2015
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Oud, B. (author)
Reverse engineering is the study of discovering the structure, function and operation of a device or system with the express aim to reconstruct its key functionalities. This principle is applied to many disciplines, from military, through computer engineering, to health, but also in metabolic engineering. In this context, reverse metabolic...
doctoral thesis 2013
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Guadalupe Medina, V.G. (author)
In its search to decrease the environmental impact of the production of materials and food, and for other socio-economic reasons, mankind has recently taken the first steps into a paradigm shift from a petrochemical-based society to a new, sustainable and to a significant extent bio-based society. In this new scenario, biomass derived from...
doctoral thesis 2013
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Huisjes, E.H. (author)
The ambition to reduce our current dependence on fossil transportation fuels has driven renewed interest in bioethanol. Pectin-rich feedstocks like sugar beet pulp and citrus peel, which are currently sold as cattle feed, are promising raw materials for the production of bioethanol. This thesis explores the challenges related to the fermentation...
doctoral thesis 2013
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De Kok, S. (author)
Metabolic engineering – the improvement of cellular activities by manipulation of enzymatic, transport and regulatory functions of the cell – has enabled the industrial production of a wide variety of biological molecules from renewable resources. Microbial production of fuels and chemicals thereby provides an alternative to oil-based production...
doctoral thesis 2012
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Zelle, R.M. (author)
Biotechnological production of chemicals from renewable feedstocks offers a sustainable alternative to petrochemistry. Understanding of the biology of microorganisms and plants is increasing at an unprecedented rate and tools with which these organisms can be engineered for industrial application are becoming ever more powerful. However,...
doctoral thesis 2011
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Harris, D.M. (author)
With an over 1000-fold improvement in specific productivity since its discovery, penicillin is one of the very successful examples of industrial biotechnology. Although classical strain improvement programmes have been a major contributor to this success, the wish for a more rational approach towards improvements has driven the work described in...
doctoral thesis 2008
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Kleijn, R.J. (author)
The 13C-labeling technique is a powerful characterization tool within the field of metabolic engineering aimed at determining intracellular steady state fluxes. The provided metabolic snapshots enable researchers to better understand and predict the phenotypic behavior of a micro-organism as a result of genetic alterations and/or different...
doctoral thesis 2007
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Geertman, J.M.A. (author)
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doctoral thesis 2006
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Kuijper, S.M. (author)
For various reasons mankind is looking for alternatives for fossil fuels. One of these alternatives is ethanol made from plant biomass. However, the plant material when broken down by hydrolysis into its sugar monomers contains a significant amount of xylose, a 5-carbon-sugar or pentose. Contrary to the sugars with 6 carbon atoms (hexoses) wild...
doctoral thesis 2006
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