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Novel high-performance enzymes and micro-organisms for conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to bioethanol (NEMO)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The NEMO project provides novel efficient enzymes and microbes for 2nd generation bioethanol production. It generates through metabolic engineering and mutagenesis & screening approaches robust yeast strains that have a broad substrate range and can (co-)ferment C6 and C5 sugars to ethanol with high productivity (rate and yield), and that are significantly more stress tolerant, i.e. inhibitor, eth ...
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Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins (SBMPs)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Membrane proteins (MPs) are known to be key molecules in cellular communications, from signal transduction to transport of ions, metabolites and other molecules. They also participate in the synthesis of ATP, the import of soluble or MPs from the cytosol, and they protect living organisms from toxic factors. The proposal consists in a joint training effort involving the major biophysical methods t ...
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Biomimetic Organocatalysis – Development of Novel Synthetic Catalytic Methodology and Technology (BIMOC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"Biomimetic Organocatalysis – Development of Novel Synthetic Catalytic Methodology and Technology The objective of the proposed research is the design and development of unprecedented preassembled, modular, molecular factories. Inspiration comes from nature’s non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) and polyketide synthetases (PKSs). These large multifunctional enzymes possess catalytic modules w ...
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The Medical Ecosystem - Personalized Event-based Surveillance (M-Eco)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Many factors in today's changing societies contribute towards the continuous emergence of infectious diseases. Demographic change, globalization, bioterrorism, compounded with the resilient nature of viruses and diseases such as SARS and avian influenza have raised awareness for European society's increasing vulnerability.Traditional Epidemic Intelligence systems are designed to identify potential ...
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EUROPEAN DRUG INITIATIVE ON CHANNELS AND TRANSPORTERS (EDICT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"The European Drug Initiative on Channels and Transporters, EDICT, allies for the first time, partners with world-class expertise in both the structural and functional characterisation of membrane channels and transporters. State-of-the-art facilities and personnel for X-ray crystallography, Electron Microscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and the latest throughput technology, will provide infra ...
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Mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases: towards new therapeutics (Mitotarget)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Mitochondrial dysfunction is a major hallmark of various neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s diseases or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). However linking mitochondrial dysfunction to the pathogenesis of some of these diseases still needs to be elucidated. Furthermore, in pathologies where this link is already established, the question re ...
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"New Sources of Natural, Gastric Stable, Food Additives, Colourants and Novel Functional Foods" (COLORSPORE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

"Functional foods provide a buoyant growth sector and the use of carotenoids is the most dynamic not only as colorants but as food additives. One issue with these products is their instability both on the shelf and upon digestion. Recently, gastric-stable bacterial-derived carotenoid preparations have been discovered by members of this consortium and these 2nd generation carotenoid preparations, a ...
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Reinforcing S&T Capacities of Two Emerging Research Centers for Natural and Industrial Pollutant Materials in Serbia and Slovenia (RESTCA-TERCE-NIPMSS)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

"The project RESTCA-TERCE-NIPMSS is aimed at reinforcing the S&T potential of two emerging research centers, which are dealing with study of natural and industrial solid pollutants: (1) Mineralogy-Crystallography and Petrology-Geochemistry Departments of the Faculty of Mining and Geology, Serbia (UB-FMG) and Department of Geochemistry and Environmental Geology, Geological Survey of Slovenia (GeoZS ...
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Europe-South Asia Exchange on Supranational (Regional) Policies and Instruments for the Promotion of Human Rights and Management of Minority Issues (EURASIA-Net)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

Human rights, and especially minority rights, have a clear supranational dimension both in Europe and in South Asia. Europe has made wide use of the mechanisms and soft law approaches developed and implemented at regional level by the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the European Union. In South Asia there is a long tradition of study and robust experience in the field of cultural, religious, lingu ...
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