An international symposium* on biotechnology innovation for the cosmetics industry was held in Toulouse (France) on 22 June 2017, in the framework of the European project SUPERBIO** and with the support of TWB. More than 100 international people, including 10 actors in the Occitania…

Is biosourced chemistry a viable alternative to so-called “classic” chemistry?  Since it is born, biosourced chemistry has lived several lives. Indeed, it should first be recalled that it is the first form of chemistry developed by man, using the resources provided by biomass. This is for example the…

Heurisko automated systems, allowing in vivo evolution of microbial populations, have been recently installed on the Biotransformation and Culture platform of TWB. Within the framework of a collaboration with Heurisko, a partner of the TWB consortium, two automated microbial culture systems – proprietary to the company – are…

Its mission Exploring enzymatic diversity to isolate new catalysts of biotechnological interest. Offering effective and innovative methods for the thorough characterisation of proteins. Key words Directed evolution; high-throughput screening; functional metagenomics; biochemical, structural and biophysical characterisation of proteins. Person in charge Sophie Bozonnet – Research Engineer INRA…

Is the living predictable in its evolution? What is the connection between physical individuation and biological individuation? Denis Pompon’s point of view Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS In 1936, Turing described his vision of the limits between the “calculable”, i.e. what is rationally deducible, and the…

Registrations for the 24th edition of the Enzyme Engineering Conference (EEC) are open . This international congress, organised by Pierre Monsan (TWB) and Magali Remaud-Siméon (LISBP), will take place in Toulouse, France – for the first time! – from 24 to 28 September 2017 .

TWB is a partner of the European H2020 project called IPM-4-CITRUS, for “Integrated Pest Management for Citrus”, which was launched on 27 April 2017 at INSA Toulouse. The project, with a total budget of €0.8 M for a period of four years, is led by the…

A team of seven students from the University of Toulouse will participate in the prestigious iGEM synthetic biology competition (International Genetically Engineered Machine), organised by the MIT ( http://igem.org ). For the 2017 edition, the iGEM Toulouse team will focus on an…

The steering committee “Pre-industrial demonstrators in Biology-Health” of ANR (French National Research Agency) has just communicated its conclusions following the evaluation of TWB in November of last year by an international panel. “ The mid-term evaluation saluted the success of TWB as well as the quality and efficiency of…