Reference number : GC-2017-Q3-00830, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Martin, Vincent (Concordia University)|Martin, Vincent (Université Concordia), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Quebec|Québec, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Strategic Projects - Group, program name french : Projets stratégiques - groupe, program purpose english : Microorganisms have been used for thousands of years to produce desirable chemicals, ranging from the molecules that give taste to cheeses to the ethanol in beer or wine. These chemicals can be complex or simple, but all are essentially derived from simple sugars by the metabolism of microbes. Today we have the capacity to develop this type of metabolic manipulation to a new level, by creating new metabolic pathways in microbes to make chemicals we find useful but that the microbes do not naturally produce. This allows us the potential of both replacing petroleum-derived chemicals with green, sustainable chemicals, and directing the products of the forestry pulp industry away from the increasingly low value production of newsprint to the production of such valuable chemicals. The Biochemicals from Forestry Biomass project will engineer the capacity of yeasts to turn sugars derived from the processing of wood fibre into adipic acid, a chemical building block of the commercially valuable polymer nylon._x000D_, program purpose french : Microorganisms have been used for thousands of years to produce desirable chemicals, ranging from the molecules that give taste to cheeses to the ethanol in beer or wine. These chemicals can be complex or simple, but all are essentially derived from simple sugars by the metabolism of microbes. Today we have the capacity to develop this type of metabolic manipulation to a new level, by creating new metabolic pathways in microbes to make chemicals we find useful but that the microbes do not naturally produce. This allows us the potential of both replacing petroleum-derived chemicals with green, sustainable chemicals, and directing the products of the forestry pulp industry away from the increasingly low value production of newsprint to the production of such valuable chemicals. The Biochemicals from Forestry Biomass project will engineer the capacity of yeasts to turn sugars derived from the processing of wood fibre into adipic acid, a chemical building block of the commercially valuable polymer nylon._x000D_, agreement title english : Biochemicals from forestry biomass, agreement title french : Biochemicals from forestry biomass, agreement number : STPGP, agreement value : 504450.0, agreement start date : 2017-10-18, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2020-2021)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2020-2021)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada