Oct 8, 2024

Our group members Raúl Muñoz, Cristina Martínez-Fraile, and Octavio García-Depraect participated in the '5th Ibero-American Congress on Biorefineries', held in Jaén (2-4 October, Spain).

Raúl presented a plenary lecture on 'Recent Advances in Gas-Phase Biorefineries'.

Cristina presented her work 'Innovative Process for the Valorization of the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste through the Production of Biohydrogen via Advanced Lactate-Driven Dark Fermentation'.

Octavio García-Depraect contributed with the poster 'Assessing the Production of Biohydrogen, Organic Acids, and Biogas from Pretreated Brewer's Spent Grain'.

Sep 30, 2024

Our group participated in the European Researchers' Night, where the science behind some of our projects was brough closer to people of all ages!


Sep 27, 2024

Our group members Sara Cantera and Elisa Huang attended the 14th International Congress on Extremophiles (Extremophiles2024), held in Loutraki (22nd to 26th of September 2024, Greece)

Sara Cantera presented 'Extremophilic cell platforms for CO2 valorization into pharm and cosmetic ingredients'.

Elisa Huang presented 'Guyparkeria halophila as a very efficient microbial platform for the circularization of carbon dioxide and thiosulfate into fine chemicals for the pharmaceutical industry'.

Sep 24, 2024

Our group members Raúl Muñoz and Raquel Lebrero attended the 9th International Conference on Environmental Monitoring of Odours and VOCs (NOSE 2024), held in Naples (15-18 September, Italy).

Raúl presented the plenary lecture 'Recent advances on prevention and abatement of odour and VOC emissions'.

Raquel presented 'Marketable high performance compact technologies for the abatement of VOCs in EU waste treatment plants. Decreasing CO2 emissions and energy consumption'.

Sep 18, 2024

Sep 16, 2024

Our group organized the 1st International Conference on Novel Photorefineries for Resource Recovery (PHOTOREFINERIES 2024), the first conference of the European COST Action PURPLEGAIN (Valladolid, September 9-11, 2024).

The conference reunited researchers, engineers and practitioners to discuss the latest updates on photocatalysis and microbial photosynthesis for the upcycling of carbon and nutrients.

Our group members presented their projects on photosynthetic microorganisms, organic and inorganic carbon conversion and added-value product synthesys.





Jul 18, 2024

Our group members engaged with colleagues from Zhejiang Ocean University at Biotechniques 2024, which explored shared research areas and interest, a grateful opportunity to collaborate and look forward to future lines of investigation together.

Jul 16, 2024

Members from our group attended the '9th International Conference on Biotechniques for Air Pollution Control and Biorefinery (Biotechniques-2024)', held in La Coruña (July 10-12, Spain), contributing with several posters and oral presentations.



Andrés Torres presented 'Innovative Biorefineries for bio-based industries: Bacterial diversity associated with ectoine production in Taylor Flow reactor for biogas valorization'.

Edwin Hoyos presented 'Novel strategies to improve CO2 gas-liquid mass transfer during photosynthetic biogas upgrading'.

Francesca di Benedetto presented 'Microbial cell platforms for CO2 valorization into pharm and cosmetic ingredients' and 'Guyparkeria halophila as a novel cell platform for the efficient valorization of CO2 and thiosulfate into ectoine'.

Eva Marcos presented 'Biological production of pharm ingredients using syngas'.

Nicolás Díaz presented 'BTEX Valorization into High-Value Products: A Circular Approach to Air Treatment'.

Estheisy López presented 'Enhancement of CO2 capture and microalgal biomass production in an AirLift photoreactor under static magnetic field exposure'.

Bart Kraakman presented 'Overcoming Bioavailability Limitations for the Treatment of Low Concentration Gases of Hydrophobic Compounds'.

Jul 7, 2024

Our group member Roxana Angeles attended the 'European Congress on Biotechnology', held in Rotterdam (30 June - 3 July, the Netherlands), where she presented 'Evaluation and optimization of CO2 capture and biomass valorization into value-added products by the green non-sulfur bacteria Chloroflexus aurantiacus'.