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August 16-17, 2018 | Copenhagen, Denmark

Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing

International Conference on

Journal of Archives of Industrial Biotechnology | Volume 2

Glycolipid production in yeast and enzyme catalysed processes

Lars Haastrup Pedersen

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César Simões da Fonseca

Aalborg University, Denmark

nly about 25% of the total surfactant production is

biobased and can be classified according to the method

of production: 1) Synthetic biobased surfactants synthesised

from sugars and fatty acids or their corresponding alcohols

by conventional organic chemistry at elevated temperature

and reduced pressure using chemical catalysts, 2) Enzymatic

biosurfactantsalsosynthesised fromsugarsand fattyacidsbut

at relatively lower temperatures and atmospheric pressure

in cell free processes utilizing the substrate specificity and

regio-selectivity of enzymes, 3) Microbial biosurfactants

are glycolipids incorporated into cell membranes or

secreted extracellularly by microorganisms. Microbial

biosurfactants are still in their commercial infancy with

only very few products on the market. The most promising

biosurfactants known today are produced in bioreactors

on lipid and sugar-containing growth media and include

sophoro, rhamno, trehalose and mannosylerythritol lipids.

The presentation will discuss resent results on production

of glycolipids in yeast and enzyme catalysed processes.

Speaker Biography

Lars Haastrup Pedersen did his industrial PhD in a collaboration between Carlsberg

Research Center and Copenhagen University, Denmark. He has been working

25 years at Aalborg University where he is associate professor in the Bioprocess

Technology Group. Current publication record shows a total of 56 including 25

scientific articles with over 400 citations, H-index Web of Science Thomas Reuters: 12.