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Partner Profile and Search Form Date 2009 11 19 Deadline 2010 01 14 Below the data of a partner who wants to a.) join a consortium b.) coordinate a project and searches for suitable partners or c.) the data of a consortium which is in need of additional partners with certain expertise / equipment should be given. CONTACT details and experience with previous EU Framework programmes Organisation Technical University of Munich Department Research Centre Straubing Contact person Prof. Volker Sieber male/female male Address Schulgasse 16 Email [email protected] Postcode D-94315 Telephone +49 (0) 9421 187 300 City Straubing Fax +49 (0) 9421 187 310 Country Germany Website www.tum.de Are you familiar with the European Framework Programme? x YES NO YES Have you participated in a former European FP? X NO If yes please indicate the project or activity: Project proposition for the current call: Title Development of an integrated Biorefinery concept for processing of chitin rich waste to specialty and fine chemicals Project type x Large Collaborative Planned to participate as Call identifier x partner Project Small or medium scaled focused research project CSA coordinator FP7-KBBE-2010-4 Workprogramme Theme 1 Cooperation Topic(s) you are interested in (max. 5) Network of Excellence Acronym ChiBio KBBE 2010.3.3.-02 Theme 2 Biotechnology KBBE 2010.3.3.-02 Your main research areas / description of research activities Biological and chemical strategies for conversion of biogenic materials into value adding products. Physicochemical biomass pre-treatment. De novo isolation characterisation of microorganisms and Enzymes. Automated technologies for high throughput optimisation of microorganims and enzymes. Characterisation and purification of resulting platform chemicals. Expertise / Commitment offered: Delivery and mechanical processing of biomass. Biological and physicochemical pre-treatment of biomass. Biological decomposition of biomass into monomeric constitutents. Conversion strategy 1: Conversion of resulting crude hydrolysate to high value fermentation products. Fermentation products being platform chemicals for the polymer industry. www.nks-lebenswissenschaften.de Partner Profile and Search Form Conversion strategy 2: Separation of proteinacious and polymeric sugar constituents. Enzymatic and chemoenzymatic conversion strategies to convert said constitutents into platform chemicals for polymer, nutraceutical and pharma industries. Conversion of certain platform chemicals to novel biogeneic polymers. Description of the know-how/expertise and equipment you can provide Isolation, characterisation of microorganisms and enzymes. Automated platforms for high thoughput target selection. Genetic methodologies to adapt microorganisms and enzyme systems to required process parameters. Biochemical methodologies and equipment for high content characterisation and isolation of optimised targets. Chemical strategies and associated equipment to convert biogenic building blocks to renewable platforms chemicals for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. Current industrial and academic partners: Delivery of standardised biomass Physicochemcial and biological pre-treatment Optimisation of biological strategies for biomass decomposition Utilisation of certain biochemical platform chemicals into polymers and their characterisation. Separation and purification of intermediates by physicochemical means Keywords specifying your expertise Have you already identified partners for projects you are interested in? Conversion of biomass, Enzymes, isolation, optimisation, fermentation, renewable platform chemicals, biogenic polymer building blocks, nutraceuticals, polymers, adsorbants . X Yes No Have you already contacted other partners? X Yes No If you want to coordinate / build a consortium or have already formed a consortium, you may need additional partners. To identify suitable partners please state what expertise / equipment is required: Profile of Partner(s) sought Expected Commitment X technology development dissemination X research demonstration training other ______________ Country /region Expected expertise / know-how and equipment which the partner should contribute to the project(s) Easten Europe, Allied countries in Asia or Americas 1.) Large scale fermentation and/or production of enzymes. Fermentation equipment between 100-3000 liters (Academic or KMU). 2.) Fermentative production of derivatives of aromatic amino acids (Academic or KMU). 3.) Production and commercialisation of Polyamide fibers (preferably KMU). 4.) Sialic acid formulation and application as Nutraceutical or alternative product (preferably KMU). 5.) Formulation and application of ACE blocking peptides as nutraceutical or pharmaceutical (preferably KMU). www.nks-lebenswissenschaften.de Partner Profile and Search Form This form will be sent to all European National Contact Points and will be disseminated by them to potential applicants! Some of the EU NCPs publish partnering requests on their webpage or put them into a public database. If you disagree please specify: Publication in public databases or on webpage of NCPs Dissemination to NKS affiliated organisations in Europe and third countries Dissemination to known consortia x Yes No x Yes No Yes x No Interested consortia and partners should directly get in touch with the contact person given on page one! PLEASE FILL IN THE BLANK PARTNER SEARCH FORM AND FORWARD IT TO: Dr. Rolf Stratmann Nationale Kontaktstelle Lebenswissenschaften [email protected] The data given will not be subjected to any technical pre-selection or control in regard to the quality or potential of the inquiry/requester. www.nks-lebenswissenschaften.de