Courses and programs in bioinformatics Basic data handling and visualization with R (Ph.D course)This Ph.D. course at LU will preliminary be at week 46 2025. Info will be updated during the spring. The purpose of the course is to provide basic knowledge of the programming language R to facilitate independent future use of applications written and / or implemented in this language, such as statisti

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A workshop was organized September 30th in order to start a bioinformatics network at Lund University.   Below are the notes from the meeting. Notes bioinformatics network meeting 30th   Summary: The workshop to start a bioinformatics network at Lund University took place at Segerfalkssalen, the 30th of September 2020. It was organized by the department of Laboratory medicine and the coordinator f

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Bioinformatics Long-term Support call is still open. See information from NBIS below. Projects are selected based on their scientific quality. The deadline for the next round of applications to be reviewed by the national evaluation committee is MONDAY MAY 3, 2021 (24:00) *** We encourage research projects related to the current COVID-19 pandemic to consider applying in this evaluation round! ***

https://www.lubi.lu.se/nbis-bioinformatics-long-term-support-call - 2025-04-03

LUBI is organizing lunches for anyone interesting in bioinformatics the second friday each month. Lunches is at own expense and will be at a restaurant in Lund. Contact karin [dot] engstrom [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se if you are interested to join the mailing list.

https://www.lubi.lu.se/bioinformatics-lunches - 2025-04-03

Monthly seminars for researchers across the university, as well as our collaboration partners in industry and other institutes, to come together. Each month, LUBIRC holds a breakfast seminar on a different topic of interest to our collaboration network. This includes new science and research in our areas of interest, but also talks by industry representatives, or on wider aspects of sustainability

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/events/lubirc-breakfast-seminars - 2025-04-03

Lund University Biobased Industry Center brings together researchers leading the way in developing the knowledge and design needed for biobased alternatives to traditional industrial products and processes. LUBIRC was founded at the beginning of 2014 by scientists at Lund University with the support of the University Board and Region Skåne. Since 2017, LUBIRC has been the university's Thematic Col

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LUBIRC is led by a management board, consisting of ten scientists across three different faculties, and one project leader from the Department of Research, Collaboration, and Innovation. The members of the board sit for terms of one year at a time. Furthermore, LUBIRC has an Advisory Board consisting of representatives from Region Skåne, IKEM, Lund Municipality, and LTH. Management Board  Josefin

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/about-lubirc/organisation - 2025-04-03

Lund University has a large team of researchers focusing on increasing our knowledge of how to create environmentally friendly chemicals, plastics, specific materials, fuel and energy sources from raw biological materials (biomass). Our hope is that our knowledge, which is based on several decades of both fundamental, and more applied research in collaboration with industry, will contribute to a s

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Biofuels are one of the many different types of products that can be made in biorefineries. There is a great need for society to decrease our reliance on fossil fuels (from, for example, coal or natural gas) in order to reduce the quantity of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere, and the use of biofuels is one opportunity to do so. Producing biofuels can be the main process of a biorefinery,

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/biobased-industry/biofuels - 2025-04-03

A refinery is a factory where raw materials are transformed into useable products such as chemicals. Biorefineries perform the same role, but with biological raw material (biomass) such as plants or microorganisms instead of traditional chemicals. Biomass is a renewable source of raw material, as we can always grow more, unlike commonly used fossil fuels. In order to use biomass, the chemical reac

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/biobased-industry/biorefineries - 2025-04-03

The expression “industrial biotechnology” is used to describe the complete industrial process that uses biobased raw materials to produce chemicals, fuels, and products with help of primarily biotechnological methods. It is often called “white biotechnology” to distinguish it from those companies in biotechnology attempting to make pharmaceutical products from biobased sources, which is referred t

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About LUBIRC Read about how we can collaborate Our Research Industrial Biobased Researchers at Lund University Calendar Link to RSS More events What is biobased industry? LUBIRC was founded at the beginning of 2014 by scientists at Lund University with support from the Lund University board and Region Skåne. At LUBIRC, we collect together researchers with wide-ranging knowledge of biobased product

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Research in areas related to the bioeconomy at Lund University The figure below illustrates the various areas of research that are involved in the different steps needed to develop a new product or process from renewable resources. More details on each can be found by clicking on the relevant boxes below, or via the menu on the left.        

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Sweden has all the right ingredients, both technically as well as in the form of available natural resources, to create a competitive bioeconomy with complex biorefineries and production of green chemicals. There are, however, many other important aspects that affect the development of a bioeconomy. These can be political decisions and regulations, corporate culture, the research climate, and how

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Producing chemicals and materials from biomass instead of fossil resources is a much more complicated process. The biomass itself contains many different substances and, in order to use it in optimally, its composition needs to be analyzed and fractionated. Biomass can originate from several different sources such as crops, or waste from agriculture and the forestry industry. It can also be genera

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Transforming biobased resources into the desired products requires customized processes and technological solutions. The processes need to successfully integrate knowledge about the properties of both the resource used and the biocatalyst, ensuring that reasonable yields and high levels of productivity will be produced and thus good process economy. The methods of transformation will vary dependin

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Enzymes used for industrial catalysis (also called biocatalysts) have to meet a great number of requirements. They originate from living organisms, usually microorganisms, and they have a basic function to transform specific biological substances inside that organism, so that the transformed molecules can be used in metabolism. To be used industrially they must become robust enough to tolerate an

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/enzymatic-catalysis - 2025-04-03

The biomass raw material consists of a large number of different chemical compounds – both small molecules and large (macro)molecules. The main macromolecules are cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, but there can also be a considerable fraction of lipids. Cellulose and hemicellulose are carbohydrates (although variously modified in hemicellulose), while lignin is a complex macromolecule composed

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Just because a product is produced using renewable raw materials and with biotechnological methods, it does not make it automatically more environmentally friendly. Using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), we can attempt to quantify the total environmental impact resulting from the entire life cycle of a product – from production of raw material, via processing, use of final product, and finally to wast

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/life-cycle-assessment - 2025-04-03