New publication in Microbial Biotechnology
The outcomes of the recent research conducted in collaboration with Victor de Lorenzo's group from CNB-CSIC (Spain) was just published in one of the top journals in the field of applied microbiology - Microbial Biotechnology! Adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) is a general and effective strategy for upgrading metabolic phenotypes of microorganisms. However, performing ALE usually requires expensive devices - chemostats that often cost dozens to hundreds of thousands of euros. In this work, David Espeso, talented postdoc from de Lorenzo's group, developed a new cheap do‐it‐yourself bioreactor which can be adopted as a flexible and automated framework for performing ALE experiments with environmental bacteria. We employed the device for the improvement of the growth of our favourite bacterium Pseudomonas putida on non-native substrate xylose, and it worked great. Read more here: https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1751-7915.13678
