New publication in STOTEN!
2023/09/31 at 8:00 pm
We are happy to share first publication of the results from the project, published in Science of The Total Environment. This is also the second publication from Aleksandra’s PhD research. Congratulations Ola!
In “Enrichment of mixed methanotrophic cultures producing polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from various environmental sources” we show the results of our work on the enrichment of mixedcultures with methanotrophs and evaluate their potential for PHA accumulation. We investigate the effect of different nitrogen sources and methane concentration levels on PHB and PHBV production by enriched methanotrophic cultures.
You can access the article for 50 days here:
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1iBc9B8ccyjYp
Green Deal Biotechnology conference, Poznań
2023/11/06 at 9:13 pm
Mateusz presented the latest results from met2pha project on Green Deal Biotechnology conference in Poznań, organized by European Federation of Biotechnology. The meeting brought together scientists and professionals from academia and various sectors of industry sharing the common interest in resource recovery and environmental biotechnology for development of new technologies supporting bioeconomy.
Aleksandra is visiting University of Alberta, Canada
2023/09/31 at 8:00 pm
Aleksandra is visiting a group of Associate professor Dominic Sauvageau from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta. The research stay will last for 3-months and the project is co-financed by Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange NAWA within the STER Programme “Internationalisation of doctoral schools”. She aims to investigate biochemical mechanisms behind the production of biopolymers from methane in methanotrophic mixed culture by adopting various omics technologies in a study on a model co-culture of methanotrophic and heterotrophic bacteria! Good luck Ola!
14th International Conference on Agrophysics
2023/09/12 at 8:12 am
Sivasankar participated in 14th International Conference on Agrophysics in Lublin taking place in Lublin, Poland on 11-13th of September. He delivered a talk on ‘Isolation of methane oxidizing bacteria from diverse environments’ and engaged in insightful discussions with fellow researchers and experts!
VII Polish Microbiological Symposium
2023/06/22 at 8:20 pm
Aleksandra and Mateusz participated in 7th Polish Microbiological Symposium in Lublin. The event was organized by Institute of Agrophysics PAS, Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation State Research Institute and the John Paul II Catholic University.(https://metagenomy2023.ipan.lublin.pl/). Ola presented our work on methanotrophic mixed cultures as the theme of the conference was related to Metagenomes of Diverse Environments!
Renewable Resources and Biorefineries 2023 in Riga, Latvia
2022/06/02 at 9:41 pm
Mateusz represented our met2pha team in Riga, Lativa during Renewable Resources and Biorefineries 2023 conference. He presented our recent work in a poster presentation titled ‘Selection of polyhydroxyalkanoate(PHA)-producing mixed methanotrophic cultures’. Conference was organized around the themes of Biorefining, Biobased Chemicals, Biodegradable Materials, Sustainability analysis and many others! Many inspiring lectures and great discussions!
IWA Agro 2022 conference
2022/10/27 at 8:22 pm
Aleksandra participated in 11th IWA International Symposium on Waste Management Problems in Agro‑Industry (https://iwa-agro2022.org/) and presented a poster detailing our work on novel methanotrophic microbial communities for production of polyhydroxyalkanoate polymers. Congratulations for winning the Best Poster Award Ola! 
PTM Community Meeting, Warsaw
2022/09/17 at 9:41 pm
Aleksandra and Mateusz participated in 29th meeting of Polish Society of Microbiologists (https://zjazdptm2022.pl/). It was great to explore the topics of interest to Polish community of microbiologists. Many interesting talks and some great speakers!
ENBIONET meeting
2022/07/06 at 4:28 pm
Last week we have presented our work on biological methane conversion during the meeting of ENBIONET (Scientific Thematic Network “Environmental Biotechnology”). ENBIONET encompasses a number of research institutions, research groups and scientists interested in topics related to: water and wastewater, waste biotechnology and others! Mateusz presented the general objectives and current status of methane2pha project and Aleksandra presented a poster detailing her work on enrichment and selection of novel methanotrophic microbial communities for production of polyhydroxyalkanoate polymers
EMT conference, Delft
2022/05/29 at 10:58 pm
Aleksandra presented research on enrichment and selection of novel methanotrophic microbial communities for production of polyhydroxyalkanoate polymers during Emerging Microbial Technologies for Next Generation Biochemical Production conference in Delft, The Netherlands (https://emtconference.eu/). Inspiring talks and interesting topics. Great to receive feedback and meet colleagues working on a similar microbial products!
for Next Generation Biochemical Production
We are hiring, Post-doc researcher wanted!
2022/03/16 at 4:28 pm
We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher, interested in applying multi-omics approaches for investigation of methanotrophic microbial communities and development of novel environmentally-friendly processes to produce bio-materials. Read more!
We are now online!
2020/02/28 at 10:58 pm
The project website is launched! Thank you for visiting. Find out more about the project and the team!
