{"id":1290,"date":"2016-03-30T09:04:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T08:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2016-03-30T09:04:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T08:04:29","slug":"research-seminar-bacterial-enzymes-for-lignin-degradation-production-of-aromatic-chemicals-from-lignocellulose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/03\/30\/research-seminar-bacterial-enzymes-for-lignin-degradation-production-of-aromatic-chemicals-from-lignocellulose\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Seminar: Bacterial Enzymes for Lignin Degradation: Production of Aromatic Chemicals from Lignocellulose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professor Tim Bugg, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 5th April, 1.00 p.m., Cornwallis Octagon Lecture Theatre 2 (COLT2)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lignin is an aromatic polymer found in plant cell walls, that is a potential source of renewable chemicals, if methods to valorise lignin can be discovered. The seminar will discuss the identification of two classes of bacterial enzyme responsible for oxidation of lignin, and the use of pathway engineering in <i>Rhodococcus<\/i> <i>jostii<\/i> for conversion of lignocellulose into target chemicals for industrial biotechnology applications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/03\/30\/research-seminar-bacterial-enzymes-for-lignin-degradation-production-of-aromatic-chemicals-from-lignocellulose\/&amp;t=Research Seminar: Bacterial Enzymes for Lignin Degradation: Production of Aromatic Chemicals from Lignocellulose' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Research Seminar: Bacterial Enzymes for Lignin Degradation: Production of Aromatic Chemicals from Lignocellulose%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/03\/30\/research-seminar-bacterial-enzymes-for-lignin-degradation-production-of-aromatic-chemicals-from-lignocellulose\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/03\/30\/research-seminar-bacterial-enzymes-for-lignin-degradation-production-of-aromatic-chemicals-from-lignocellulose\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/03\/30\/research-seminar-bacterial-enzymes-for-lignin-degradation-production-of-aromatic-chemicals-from-lignocellulose\/&amp;title=Research Seminar: Bacterial Enzymes for Lignin Degradation: Production of Aromatic Chemicals from Lignocellulose' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/03\/30\/research-seminar-bacterial-enzymes-for-lignin-degradation-production-of-aromatic-chemicals-from-lignocellulose\/&amp;title=Research Seminar: Bacterial Enzymes for Lignin Degradation: Production of Aromatic Chemicals from Lignocellulose' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Tim Bugg, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick Tuesday 5th April, 1.00 p.m., Cornwallis Octagon Lecture Theatre 2 (COLT2) &nbsp; Lignin is an aromatic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2016\/03\/30\/research-seminar-bacterial-enzymes-for-lignin-degradation-production-of-aromatic-chemicals-from-lignocellulose\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50580],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}