Aims

• Submerged fermentations in batch, fed-batch and continuous modes
• Montoring, optimization and control of cultivation conditions and microbial physiological state
• Extraction and purification of microbial proteins
• Identification and functional characterization of proteins

Facilities

• 8 fully instrumented fermentors
• Downstream processing (centrifugation, expanded-bed chromatography, tangential flow micro- and ultrafiltration, perfusion chromatography, lyophilization)
• 1D and 2D chromatography
• Chemical, enzymatic and immunological detection coupled to image analysis

The biotechnology platform is a member of the I-FERM federation of fermentation platforms