The project has a strong European dimension with a consortium formed by sixteen partners belonging to
seven EU countries (Spain, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Austria and France) plus one partner from an EU
candidate country (Turkey). Each of the above partners has been selected and invited to join the consortium based on its
excellence in the different areas needed to build up the
project.
The required complementariness has been ensured by combining enzymologists, molecular biologists, genomic specialists, chemists, biophysicists, enzyme and process engineers, among the research/academic partners, together with specialized SMEs in the areas of fungal enzymes, computation, biotechnological processes, enzyme immobilization, industrial dyes, and chiral chemicals as API precursors. Two large companies producing enzymes (biotechnology sector) and willing to introduce them in medium-large-scale industrial processes of the chemical sector complete the INDOX consortium.
This multidisciplinary consortium works together in INDOX to provide a wide repertoire of selected oxidoreductases with optimized catalytic and operational properties for different industrial reaction types, as well as to show the techno-economic advantages of the enzymatic biotransformations by presenting relevant case stories to the chemical sector.
A few examples of the tasks to be carried out by the different partners are:
enzyme discovery and characterization
molecular biology and enzyme engineering
bioinformatics
enzyme production
reaction design and engineering
enzyme evaluation
pilot-scale biotransformations
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CSIC - Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology, Seville, Spain (IRNAS)
Reina Mercedes 10, E-41012 Seville, Spain
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CSIC – Biological Research Centre, Madrid, Spain (CIB)
Ramiro de Maeztu 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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CSIC - Institute of Catalysis and Petroleochemistry, Madrid, Spain (ICP)
Marie Curie 2, Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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Biopolis S.L., Valencia, Spain (Biopolis)
C/ Catedrático Agustín Escardino Benlloch, 9, 46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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Anaxomics, Barcelona, Spain (AX)
Balmes 29, 08008 Barcelona
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Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Marseille, France (INRA)
63 avenue de Luminy, CP 925, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France
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Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy (UNINA)
cia Cintia, 4, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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Setas Kimya Sanayi AS, Çerkezköy, Turkey (SETAS)
Organize Sanayi Bolgesi Ataturk Cad. 9. Sok. Nº 3 59500 Cerkezkoy, Tekirdag, Turkey
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University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria (BOKU)
Muthgasse 18, A-1190 Wien, Austria
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JenaBios Biotechnologien und Serviceleistungen GmbH, Jena, Germany (BIOS)
Orlaweg 2, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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Chiracon GmbH, Luckenwalde, Germany (Chiracon)
Zapfholzweg 1, D-14943 Luckenwalde, Germany
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Technische Universität Dresden, Internationales Hochschulinstitut Zittau, Germany (TUD-IHIZ)
Markt 23, D-02763 Zittau, Germany
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Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, The Netherlands (TUDelft)
Julianalaan 136, 2628BL Delft, The Netherlands
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Cheminova A/S, Lemvig, Denmark (Cheminova)
PO Box 9, DK-7620 Lemvig, Denmark
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Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands (WUR)
Dreijenlaan 3, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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CLEA Technologies B.V., Delft, The Netherlands (CLEA)
Delftechpark 34, 2628XH Delft, The Netherlands
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Novozymes A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark (NZ)
Krogshoejvej 36, 2880-Bagsvaerd, Denmark
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Project Coordinator
Prof. Angel T. Martínez
Biological Research Centre (CIB, CSIC)
Calle Ramiro de Maeztu 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain.
E-mail:
ATMartinez@cib.csic.es
Phone: 34 918373112
Fax: 34 915360432
Angel T. Martínez is Research Professor of CSIC at the group of Biotechnology for Lignocellulosic Biomass of CIB. He is member of ACS, ASM and TAPPI, with around
250 publications mainly related to oxidoreductases and microbial biotechnology.
His experience is supported by participation in more than
55 national and international research projects, in most of them as head researcher. Regarding EC Framework Programmes, he has coordinated projects of Industrial Biotechnology from FP3 to FP7, such as
PEROXICATS (KBBE-2010-4-265397),
BIORENEW (NMP2-CT-2006-026456),
PELAS (QLK3-1999-00590),
PITCH (QLK5-1999-01357) and
AIR2 (CT93-1219).