First Training School – Modelling Purple Phototrophic Bacteria for Resource Recovery

Modeling biological processes is a critical practice in many biotechnological applications. Among them, photosynthetic processes are increasingly gaining attention from the environmental engineering community. The use of purple phototrophic bacteria for solving environmental biotechnology problems is an emerging field of knowledge inspired by classical biotechnological methods like activated sludge or microalgae processes. Still, it is intrinsically complex due to the high metabolic versatility of purple phototrophic bacteria and its relationship with light. Therefore, developing valuable and universal models that can help control and simulate purple phototrophic bacteria-based process is challenging and suppose a trend of knowledge still under development by the scientific community. The main challenge is to simultaneously address biochemistry, mass balance, metabolism, and biophysics, which is unique in classical biological models in environmental engineering.

This Training School focuses on learning the theoretical basis and practical applications of kinetic modeling of biotechnological processes using purple photosynthetic bacteria. The Training School addresses the problem from a triple perspective, involving biochemistry (kinetics and thermodynamics), metabolism (genomics), and biophysics (photon-electron interaction). Experts will impart the three-day summer school from a diverse portfolio of disciplines from all over Europe, under the frame of the Cost Action CA21146 - Fundamentals and applications of purple bacteria biotechnology for resource recovery from waste (PURPLEGAIN).

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