Skills domains

The expertise of TWB covers a broad scope of industrial biotechnology: synthetic biology, enzyme engineering, metabolic engineering, fermentation, separation and purification processes and state-of-the-art analytical techniques. Microorganisms (bacteria, yeasts, filamentous fungi) and enzymes are the main biological tools. Other tools are conceivable and projects implementing protozoa or micro-algae have already been conducted.

The main objective is to use and convert renewable carbon sources (biomass, by-products) into valuable products.

Application domains are chemistry in a broad sense (chemical products, aromas, colors, prebiotics, pharmaceutical compounds,…), materials (bioplastics, biopolymers,…), food industry and energy (biofuels).

TWB skills include:

At the national level

• TWB own resources, with its technical platforms
• Partnerships established with renowned academic laboratories: TWB is tightly articulated with the Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (TBI) at INSA Toulouse. In order to expand TWB range of skills, other partnerships are also developed: Genopole Université d’Evry, ESPCI Paris Tech, MICALIS Jouy-en-Josas, BBF Marseille…
• Partnership with the Technology Resource Center CRITT Bio-Industries Midi-Pyrénées.

Depending on the needs, TWB also collaborates with complementary life science platforms such as the Genotoul Toulouse network.

At the international level

• collaborations with the partners of technological infrastructures from IBISBA (Industrial Biotechnology Innovation and Synthetic Biology Acceleration) programme.