Pseudomonas putida as a platform for the synthesis of aromatic compounds, check out the article in Microbiology, Vol 162.

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2 more impressive contributions from EPP.

Check these highly interesting publications from

Enrique Asin García on "Genetic Safeguards and Safety-by-design" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167779920301104

and Christos Batianis on CRISPRi for P. putida https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1751-7915.13533?af=R.

Proud to highlight a new publication in the wake of EPP:

Kim, J., Goñi-Moreno, A., Calles, B., and de Lorenzo, V. (2019). Spatial organization of the gene expression hardware in Pseudomonas putida. Environ Microbiol (In Press)

Find the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14544

Congratulations to our partner Dr. Ian Fotheringham of Ingenza Ltd on receiving the Charles Tennant Memorial Award!

We are happy to announce EPP's 8th General Assembly meeting and joint workshop on 'Resposible research and innovation' to be held at BASF and in Mannheim, Germany, on April 8-10.

Two of our members of EPP from the ITQB - Cecilia M. Arraiano and Vânia Pobre - have just published this technique in Methods in Enzymology, which can be used also for Pseudomonas putida: https://authors.elsevier.com/b/1Y8Bf_1lc7dESG

The 7th General Assembly of EmPowerPutida is now ongoing in Wageningen, NL. All work packages are presenting their achievements.

EmPowerPutida is happy to announce the 1st Pseudomonas Grassroots Meeting planned to be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on November 8-9. The key note speakers are Victor de Lorenzo (CSIC) a partner in EPP and Nick Wierckx (RWTH) from the EPP partner project P4SB.

EmPowerPutida is happy to announce its 7th General Assembly meeting planned to be held in Wageningen, Netherlands on November 13-14.

Check out the short version of our new video about EmPowerPutida and follow us on YouTube (long version on the front page).

EmPowerPutida is happy to announce its 6th General Assembly meeting planned to be held in Mallorca on April 25-27.

The EmPower Putida 5th General Assembly meeting is now live in Edinburgh! Great to see everyone back together.

Stay tuned...

Excited about our upcoming EPP project meeting taking place in Edinburgh on November 20-21

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EmPowerPutida is glad contributing to this exciting festival. Join us from October 5 - 6 at Wageningen University. SynCity Days Wageningen UR

Ruben van Heck, PhD at Wageningen University and modeller in EPP, defended his thesis on "metabolic modeling to understand and redesign microbial systems".  Great work!  http://www.wur.nl/en/activity/Metabolic-modeling-to-understand-and-redesign-microbial-systems-2.htm

EPP is happy to announce that we contributed to the exciting GRC 2017 on Synthetic Biology with posters, presentations, discussion sessions, etc. https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=15843

The European Commission has published an article on EPP and its role in bacterial engineering. Take a read.