graduation at Farmácia e Bioquímica - opção Tecnologia de Alimentos from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1987), master's at Science and Technology of the Food from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1992) and doctorate at Ciências from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1998). He is currently professor doutor at Universidade de São Paulo. Has experience in Microbiology, focusing on Industrial Microbiology and of Fermentation, acting on the following subjects: nitrificação, efluente, celulases, clostridium beijerinckii and enzimas. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Sustainable development is one of the most important challenges of our century. In recent years, concepts such as Bioeconomy have broadened public policies and research that prioritize the use or reuse of renewable raw materials. Thus, renewable resources, especially waste, are potential feedstocks to produce fuels, materials, and energy. This project focuses on organic and inorganic wast…
The joint research proposal focuses on a sustainable, bio-based production of the important commodity chemical 1,3-propanediol (PDO) by anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium. PDO can be manufactured by chemical synthesis or fermentation. Currently, ~150000 t of PDO are produced per year, which is expected to increase to ~225000 t per year by 2022. The joint research proposal is base…
bioeconomy is a special issue worldwide-it comprises the use of renewable biological resources from land and sea to produce bioproducts, such as food, fuels, materials, and energy. Bioproducts and energy generation become even more economically interesting if the raw materials consist of industrial byproducts and/or waste. In this context, Laboratório de Biotecnologia Ambiental e Energias…
The development of technologies to obtain renewable and cleaner energy is a global issue. Hydrogen is a clean fuel-its burning generates water only. A biological process, such as fermentation of carbohydrates from renewable raw materials, produces biohydrogen. Recently, researchers have turned their attention to the use of algal biomasses bearing high concentration of polysaccharides as r…
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Industrial progress has resulted in a larger emission of CO2, increasing the impact of global warming. An alternative is to employ CO2 as a carbon source in biotechnological processes, requiring microorganisms capable of capturing it, either through an autotrophic or mixotrophic metabolism, i.e., the concomitant assimilation of organic and inorganic carbon. In the literature it is reporte…
Economic growth causes a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the main representative of which is carbon dioxide (CO2). International agreements aim to reduce CO2 emissions and limit the increase in global temperature to 1.5 °C by 2050. For this, the development of biotechnological processes using microorganisms capable of capturing CO2 is a good alternative for reducing of C…
The concern with the energy issue has led to the search for alternatives that are of lower cost and environmental impact. Hydrogen gas is a good alternative since it is considered a clean source of energy since its complete combustion leads to the formation of water and energy. One of the bottlenecks for the implementation of hydrogen in the energy matrix is the high energy demand directl…
Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) are bioelectrochemical systems that convert chemical energy into electrical energy through the microorganisms used as biocatalysts. These microorganisms, called electrogenic, grow at the MFC anode forming a biofilm and releasing electrons to an electrode and finally to the cathode. The potential difference between the anode and cathode results in electricity. Ps…
Increasing interest in economic practices based on the use of renewable and residual materials have made biotechnological processes some of the most attractive alternatives to add value to such raw materials. For example, biodiesel production from the recycling of oils and fats generates glycerol as a by-product, which in turn has been studied as a carbon source in several bioprocesses, i…
The strong reliance on fossil fuels, as well as its polluting power, have driven the search for alternative energy-generating sources and technologies. Simultaneously to this scenario, industrial economic activities generate by-products, waste and polluting effluents which, if not properly treated, pose a threat to the environment in general. Thus, great efforts have been devoted to the d…
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Sustainable development is one of the pillars of bioeconomy, which aims to conserve natural resources and to reuse industrial waste. One of the bioprocesses in line with these objectives is the fermentation of glycerol, the main residue of biodiesel production, by bacteria of the genus Clostridium. Specifically, Clostridium beijerinckii Br21 can produce 1,3-propanediol from glycerol, but …
Several clostridium strains metabolize glycerol (C3) by two metabolic pathways: the reductive and the oxidative branches. In the reductive pathway, glycerol is dehydrated to 3-hydroxypropionaldehyde (3-HPA), which can be further reduced to 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO). The NADH cofactor of this reaction is generated by the oxidative glycerol pathway, thereby maintaining the intracellular red…
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