Projet SE2B (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

In the face of the increasing global consumption of fossil resources, photosynthetic organisms offer an attractive alternative that could meet our rising future needs as clean, renewable, sources of energy and for the production of fine chemicals. Key to the efficient exploitation of these organisms is to optimise the conversion of Solar Energy into Biomass (SE2B). The SE2B network deals with this optimisation in an interdisciplinary approach including molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics and biotechnology. Regulation processes at the level of the photosynthetic membranes, integrating molecular processes within individual proteins up to flexible re-arrangements of the membranes, will be analysed as a dynamic network of interacting regulations. SE2B will yield information about the similarities and differences between cyanobacteria, green algae, diatoms and higher plants, the organisms most commonly employed in biotechnological approaches exploiting photosynthetic organisms, as well as in agriculture. The knowledge gained from understanding these phenomena will be directly transferred to increase the productivity of algal mass cultures for valuable products, and for the development of sophisticated analytic devices that are used to optimise this production. In future, the knowledge created can also be applicable to the design of synthetic cell factories with efficient light harvesting and energy conversion systems. The SE2B network will train young researchers to work at the forefront of innovations that shape the bio-based economy. SE2B will develop a training program based on individual and network-wide training on key research and transferable skills, and will furthermore disseminate these results by open online courses prepared by the young researchers themselves.

Mots clés : photosynthesis, solar energy, regulation of light energy conversion, thylakoid membrane proteins, thylakoid structure and dynamics, biomass production, plants and microalgae

Participants :
- Goethe University Frankfurt (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 498432.96 €
- Umeå University (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 263659.32 €
- Phycosource (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 157506.3 €
- Wageningen University & Research (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 255374.28 €
- Palacký University, Olomouc (Rép. Tchèque) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 116211.24 €
- Photon Systems Instruments (Czechia) (Rép. Tchèque) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 204854.59 €
- University of Groningen (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 127687.14 €
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 546575.76 €
- University of Verona (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 258061.32 €
- University of Turku (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 269145.36 €
- Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 631120.5 €
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 510748.56 €