Training bacteria together

Train a bacterium to turn sucrose efficiently and with great specificity into a useful feedstock for the production of bioplastics. That is in short what Jonas Contiero from the São Paulo State University and his partners Aljoscha Wahl and Karel Olavarria Gamez from TU Delft set out to do a couple of years ago. Contiero and Olavarria Gamez tell the tale of their collaboration.

Further information on Brazil-Netherlands collaboration can be found at the Netherlands Innovation Attache Network Brazil page.