Maija attended and presented a poster at the Gordon Conference on Foods of the Future: Science and Engineering Approaches, in Ponoma, California. She presented work on design and testing of new food proteins, where she collaborated with Ulysse, Oliwia, and Elsa.
See also the Good Food Institute's "Meet the Researcher" article on Maija.
Moonshot team, Maija, Ulysse, Paul, Oliwia. Not pictured: Elsa
We hosted the Year 4 project meeting for our SSF-FFF project Microbial consortia for food production at KTH/SciLifeLab. Our collaborators from Chalmers came up.
We also hosted the Year 1 project meeting for our Horizon Europe project S2B Solar to Butanol. Collaborators from Finland, France, Belgium, and Netherlands joined.
S2B at Tennstopet in Stockholm
Paul visited Axel in Kobe, Japan. Axel had been there on a 2-month research visit in the lab of Prof. Tomohisa Hasunuma where he learned metabolomics techniques. We were treated to a fantastic 3 days of touring and science.
Axel presenting in Kobe, Japan
Group photo Kobe, Japan
Axel and Sara attended Cyanocon 15 in Nashville, TN. They also helped organisation and were session chairs.
Paul, Elias, Bruno, Axel, and Anna attended Metabolic Engineering 16 in Copenhagen and presented posters. Paul was session chair in Metabolic Engineering of Plants and Algae. Bruno was selected for a presentation on enzyme clustering. We ran into our KTH colleagues and lab alumn Markus Janasch!
Good representation from group at ME16 in Copenhagen
In September, Paul, Sara, Bruno, and Elias attended the International Symposium on Photosynthetic Prokaryotes in Qingdao where we presented work on in vivo enzyme screening, immobilisation of cyanobacteria, enzyme clustering, and protein stability.
Elias presenting at ISPP in Qingdao
We had the annual meeting for our SSF-FFF project "Microbial consortia for food production," at Chalmers in Gothenburg. Thanks to Verena Siewers and team for organizing. Paul, Sara, Michele, Axel, Anna II, and Maria attended. Håkan and Damian from NanoBiotech also attended.
Meanwhile, Anna and Bruno traveled to Umeå for our SSF-ARC project on Plant Biotechnology and checked on our transgenic trees. With Åsa Strand and Stefan Jansson.
All were happy to be in the grow room
Axel presented at a Nobel Museum Event "Light and Life." Paul attended an international symposium in honor of Eva Mari Aro in Turku. Ulysse atteneded the EBML Synthetic Biology course.
Axel at the Nobel Museum
Ulysse at the EMBL course, bottom row 2nd from left
SciLifeLab Halloween Pub 2025
SciLifeLab power outage 2025
Christmas party 2025
Oliwia Bancerz Aleksiejczuk an undergraduate student from KTH joined the lab to work on carbon fixation cascade enzymes.
The group trekked (by bus) to Emil's house for a summer party. Jebin had her baptism in the Baltic and Maija ascended her throne as the reigning Crayfish Queen.
Axel, Maija, Olivia, Jebin, Ulysse, Sofia, Jorgelina, Sara, Emil
KTH students Elsa Berlin and Sofia Klangby and MTLS student Myrsini Charis joined us over the summer. Sofia and Myrsini will work on computational design of food proteins wtih Ulysse and Elsa will work on experimental production of them with Maija.
Ulysse training acolytes
We welcomed two new master students in January 2025. Ynzo Jonkhoff from University of Gröningen will work with Bruno within the S2B project, on synthetic biology for butanol production. Aman Dheer from the MTLS program will work with Elias and Hitesh on adaptive laboratory evolution.
KTH undergraduates Elissa Ghanem and Olivia Liljefors also joined the group. Elissa will work on Rubisco evolution with Michele and Olivia will work on CO2 cascade enzymes with Ulysse.
Paul, Bruno, Ynzo, and Zhengming are part of the S2B project funded by Horizon Europe. In our modest incubator room.
