The C1Pro project and its role in industrial biotechnology were presented by Volker Wendisch during an economic meeting of the regional branch of the Junior Chamber International. Christopher Henke presented the business perspective of industrial biotechnology during this tandem talk.

During the 13th CeBiTec Symposium on Multi-step syntheses in Biology and Chemistry
Carsten from UNIBI presented C1Pro results obtained by the teams from UNIBI, NTNU and INSA in a lecture he gave on three alternative 5-aminovalerate production pathways established in C. glutamicum that may be transfered to B. methanolicus.

Recent results obtained by the C1Pro teams of Bielefeld University and NTNU were presented during the conference New Horizons in Biotechnology 2019, in Trivandrum, India, where Volker F. Wendisch gave a talk on "Methanol as Carbon Source in Biotechnology". Photo: Silvin Hannibal.

All C1Pro project partners contributed actively to the 9th International CeBiTec Research Conference at Bielefeld University in many ways: members acted as part of the scientific committee, as session chairs, as lecturers, poster presenters or participants of a panel discussion about networking in white biotechnology. Dissemination of C1Pro results was very well received by the 75 international participants from academia and industry.

Gregor Kosec (AciesBio, SL) from C1Pro participated in the panel discussion on white biotechnology with Georg Lentzen (b.value, DE), and Markus Pötter (Evonik Industries, DE), moderated by Katrin Kriebs (CKB & CLIB-Cluster, DE). 

This summer, the C1Pro team in Bielefeld was supported by international students. Carsten Haupka and Kerstin Schultenkämper worked with Sue Fletcher, a BSc student from Edmonton, Canada, participating in the Alberta OWL Cooperation, on Bacillus methanolicus biotechnology.

C1Pro team at NTNU has received two visiting PhD students from Prof. Karen Draths’ group at Michigan State University this July. Megan Gruenberg and Yasheen Jadidi worked closely with Dr. Marta Irla from NTNU on microbial and molecular techniques for B. methanolicus.

C1Pro members at project meeting in Ljubljana, where were presented and discussed the project status and the latest activities carried out in each work package.

The concept of methanol dependent production of value-added compounds was presented by Kerstin Schultenkämper of the C1Pro team to pupils, chemistry trainees and their teachers at the technical college Berufskolleg Senne in Bielefeld. A deep discussion about life sciences and university life evolved afterwards.

During a meeting with a Korean delegation from Kyungsung University in Busan- South Korea, cooperation partners of the Wendisch lab at UNIBI, that highlighted international cooperation on the university level, the level of Bielefeld Biology department and in European research projects Kerstin Schultenkämper presented the C1pro EraCoBiotech project. She discussed the whole process from conception of the idea to the approval of funding and introduced the research topic of methanol-based production of value-added compounds with her first results. The meeting was held  at Center of Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld.