Work-Package
The work-package distribution among partners is described in this Figure
The objectives of WP0 are to continuously monitor and provide means for the ComRaDes partners to share their knowledge within the consortium and to integrate the research activities as well as to communicate and disseminate the results to the scientific community and to the wider audience. WP0 will also carry out an efficient project management adapted to the specificities of ComRaDes.
This work-package will also monitor the IPR activities as well as the data management The WP1 has three objectives that are to provide a generic CFD-CRD framework for gassed fermenters with multiple impellers, to derive a rational scale-up / scale-down route and finally to design a scaled-down lab-scale’ fermenter’ that mimics the industrial life of micro-organisms.The goal of the WP2 is to obtain quantitative information on the impact of the oxygen and power dissipation gradients of the large-scale bioreactor on the physiology and performance of P. chrysogenum.The WP3 will provide a sound experimental data basis for realistically mirroring the metabolic and transcriptional responses on large-scale conditions of P. chrysogenum and S. cerevisiae (in cooperation with WPs 2, 4) and will derive data driven models (in cooperation with WP1).The main goal of this WP4 is to highlight the impact of bioreactor heterogeneity (i.e., driving the environmental fluctuations perceived at the single cell level) on microbial population phenotypic diversity (i.e. driven by biological noise).Overview
of the elements that will be developedand integrated1 – Detailed analysis of the large-scale conditions, characterizing the dynamic environment witnessed by the microorganisms.
2 – As precise as possible translation of this environment to the lab-scale, via design of scale-down simulators.3 – Tests at lab-scale under conditions representative for large- scale to find better combinations of strains and environmental conditions.4 – Back-translation of successful findings (e.g. more robust strains, less variable environments) to the large-scale.Latest News
Kick-off meeting october 12 2018 at DSM research center
Kick-off meeting october 12 2018 at DSM research center
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– computational analysis (TRL3) of two bioprocesses in large-scale fermenters combining existing fluid and reaction dynamics sub-models, – use of the computational framework to design scale-down simulators (TRL3), – computation-driven[…]
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Prof Henk Noorman
Senior researcher at DSMPart-time of professo at TUDelft
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henk.noorman@dsm.com

Prof Ralf Takors
University of Stuttgart Institute of Biochemical Engineering
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takors@ibvt.uni-stuttgart.de
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Prof Frank Delvigne
University of LiègeTerra research center
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f.delvigne@ulg.ac.be
Tel.:0032 81 62 23 05
Mobile: 0032 81 61 42 22
www.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_5000/fr/accueil

Dr Philippe Gabant
SYNGULONR&D
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pgabant@syngulon.com
Tel.: 0032 475660573
http://syngulon.com

Dr Emile van de Sandt
DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals
Operations & Technology
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emile.sandt-van-de@dsm-sinochem.com
Tel.: 0031 644812205
www.dsm-sinochem.com

Walter Van Gulik
