Animal lignocellulosic digestion as a model for new ... · technologies and standards in the enzymatic hydrolysis of sugarcane bagasse. ... Fernando Genta, PhD (FIOCRUZ) ... Slide

Eloi S. Garcia

Animal lignocellulosic digestion as a model for new

technologies and standards in the enzymatic

hydrolysis of

sugarcane bagasse

Nasutitermes ephratae

Teleogryllus emma

marine mollusc

Network Research Groups – INMETRO/CENPES

Project 1: Biotechnology of biomass degradative processes

- Coordinator: Flávio Costa Miguens, PhD (UENF)

Project 2: Biomass degradation in the rumen: harvest and cultivation

of microorganisms.

- Coordinator: Marta D’Agosto, PhD (UFJF)

Network Research Groups – INMETRO/CENPES

Project 3: Fistulated bovines and harvest of microorganisms from

rumen

Coordinator: José Fernando Coelho da Silva, PhD (UENF)

Project 4: National bank of genes and enzymes involved in

lignocellulosic breakdown from Brazilian insects

Coordinator: Ednildo de Alcântara Machado, PhD (UFRJ)

Network Research Groups – INMETRO/CENPES

Project 5 Purification, cloning and heterologous expression of

enzymes with biotechnological potential in lignocellulosic breakdown

for ethanol production:

- Coordinator: Fernando Genta, PhD (FIOCRUZ)

Project 6: Studying the process of biomass degradation by

microorganisms by molecular taxonomy (metagenomics)

- Coordinator: Orlando M. Martins, PhD (UFRJ)

Project 7: Structure of rumen epithelium and termite gut –

interaction with microorganisms.

- Coordinator: Marlene Belchimol, PhD (USU)

Project 8: Structural and Biochemical organization of sugarcane cell

wall and other plant models

- Coordinator: Wanderley de Souza, PhD (UFRJ)

Project 9: Biochemical organization of polysaccharides from

sugarcane cell wall and other plant models

- Coordinator: Lúcia Previato, PhD (UFRJ)

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Ruminants

Goats Bovines

Additional models

grasshopper

cockroaches

Additional Models

Achatina fulica

giant african snailbeetles

Termites

Powdered sugarcane bagasse

suitable for enzymatic assays of lignocellulosic enzymes

colloidal, micrometer range