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SUMMARY:Frontiers of Science: Synthetic biology - powering bioeconomy
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Merja Penttilä\, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finlan
 d\, Espoo\, Finland\nSynthetic biology - powering bioeconomy\n\nHost: Paul
 a Mulo (pmulo@utu.fi)\n\nMerja Penttilä has been a key person in promotio
 n of Finnish industrial biotechnology and synthetic biology research in VT
 T\, which has belonged to the global leaders in industrial biotechnology a
 lready for decades\, focusing on microbial cell factories and lignocellulo
 se enzymology. Major part of the research has been carried out with eukary
 otic species\, yeasts and filamentous fungi. Synthetic biology\, synbio\, 
 is a new\, rapidly advancing scientific field\, which is based on the desi
 gn and construction of living cells as we humans want them to be. All func
 tionality found in nature can be utilized to build cells with properties t
 hat are coded by synthetic genes. Synbio\, supported by automation and rob
 otics\, will revolutionize industrial biology and enables design and const
 ruction of microbial cells that produce proteins\, chemicals and bioplasti
 cs.\n\nMerja Penttilä is a research professor in biotechnology at VTT\, a
 nd an adjunct professor in synthetic biology at Aalto University. She has 
 lead several industrial projects with Finnish and foreign companies\, and 
 several large research consortia\, e.g. acting as Director of the large st
 rategic opening project funded by Tekes “Living Factories: Synthetic Bio
 logy for a sustainable Bioeconomy” (2014-2017).\n\nhttps://www.vttresear
 ch.com/media/news/merja-penttil%C3%A4-obtains-over-1-million-euro-funding-
 to-synthetic-biology-from-the-wihuri-foundation\n\nhttps://www.synbio.fi/a
 bout (Avajaiset olivat 18.1.2019)\n\nSelected publications\nLienemann M\, 
 TerAvest MA\, Pitkänen JP\, Stuns I\, Penttilä M\, Ajo-Franklin CM\, Jä
 ntti J. 2018 Towards patterned bioelectronics: facilitated immobilization 
 of exoelectrogenic Escherichia coli with heterologous pili. Microb Biotech
 nol. 11(6):1184-1194.\n\nKoivuranta K\, Castillo S\, Jouhten P\, Ruohonen 
 L\, Penttilä M\, Wiebe MG. 2018 Enhanced Triacylglycerol Production With 
 Genetically Modified Trichosporon oleaginosus. Front Microbiol. 21\;9:1337
 .\n\nRantasalo A\, Landowski CP\, Kuivanen J\, Korppoo A\, Reuter L\, Koiv
 istoinen O\, Valkonen M\, Penttilä M\, Jäntti J\, Mojzita D. 2018 A univ
 ersal gene expression system for fungi. Nucleic Acids Res. 46(18):e111.\n\
 nRantasalo A\, Kuivanen J\, Penttilä M\, Jäntti J\, Mojzita D. 2018 Synt
 hetic Toolkit for Complex Genetic Circuit Engineering in Saccharomyces cer
 evisiae. ACS Synth Biol. 7(6):1573-1587.\n\nKuivanen J\, Holmström S\, Le
 htinen B\, Penttilä M\, Jäntti J. 2018 A High-throughput workflow for CR
 ISPR/Cas9 mediated combinatorial promoter replacements and phenotype chara
 cterization in yeast. Biotechnol J. 5:e1700593\n\nSalusjärvi L\, Toivari 
 M\, Vehkomäki ML\, Koivistoinen O\, Mojzita D\, Niemelä K\, Penttilä M\
 , Ruohonen L. 2017 Production of ethylene glycol or glycolic acid from D-x
 ylose in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 101(22):8151
 -8163.
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