The group leader is Professor Vincent Eijsink and the group works mainly with production, design and characterisation of proteins and enzymes.
Vincent Eijsink
Foto: Håkon Sparre
One of our main focuses is on understanding and exploiting enzymes, for example to improve the value of bi-products from agriculture, aquaculture and food industry. This group combines basic research, published in top-level scientific journals with applied studies and innovation.
• Characterization and engineering of enzymes for the conversion of chitin to related polymers. This project will finish soon, but a follow-up project ("Characterization and exploration of microbial enzymes for processing of chitin, chitosan and peptidoglycan") has been started in collaboration with NTNU. Read more...
• Optimisation of protein expression and secretion in Lactobacilli. This project is part of a large Strategic University programme running from. 2004 to 2009, headed by Prof. Ingolf Nes. Read more...
• Industrialising peptones from fish. Read more... (in Norwegian) (Finished summer 2005).
• Protein-based studies of potato late blight disease: identification and characterisation of enzymes from the pathogen, Phytophtora infestans, taking part in the infection process. Read more... (in Norwegian)
• REPRO is a STREP project funded by the 6FP Food Quality and Safety priority of DG Research addressing advanced methods to enable total transformation of food-processing-derived plant-based organic waste co-products (vegetable trimmings and brewers’ spent grain) into high and medium added value food, feed and pharmaceutical products such as biopolymers, phytochemicals, nutrients and micronutrients.
• ADDBAR is a NFR-funded project aiming at isolating and characterizing potentially valuable compounds from barley. The group focuses on the protein fraction (like in the related REPRO project), whereas Matforsk studies antioxidants and carbohydrates. The group employs state-of-the art proteomics tools in this project. Read more..... (in Norwegian)
• Degradation of insoluble carbohydrate polymers: How do microbial chitinolytic machineries work? (Post doc. fellowship to Gustav Vaaje Kolstad)
To see the most updated information on our group and our research projects, go to pep.umb.no
