123 projects

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

The future of cheese production in the face of climate and societal change, developing recombinant technology and plant-based analogues.

Based on the need to reduce the climate footprint of animal food production and dietary recommendations, consumers are being advised to increase their intake of plant-based foods. In addition, the opportunities created by the development of emerging technologies such as recombinant technology, co...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

N2O-respiring bacteria in organic fertilizers, for reducing N2O emissions

The NRBOW team has developed an innovative biotechnology to reduce N2O emissions from agricultural soils. The concept involves using organic waste as substrate and vectors for selected bacteria (NNRB) capable of reducing N2O to harmless nitrogen gas (N2). We developed the method using waste mater...

Awarded: NOK 33,000

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Unravelling fundamental mechanisms of bacterial exopolysaccharide catabolism for use in food and health applications

Bacteria produce many chemical compounds, including carbohydrates that play key biological roles. Exopolysaccharides (EPS) make bacteria smooth and slimy and are crucial for both bacteria and humans. Pathogens use EPS in biofilms to evade immunity and antibiotics, while in food production EPS imp...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Akershus

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Arr: The third LPMO symposium

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Awarded: NOK 84,686

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Degradation of lignin by bacteria

The DeLignoBact project aims at identifying bacterial enzymes that are able to degrade lignin. Lignin is one of the main components of non-edible plant materials but is not utilized in an optimal way today. By gaining a better understanding of the enzymatic systems involved in lignin degradation ...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

A holistic approach to an old problem: deciphering complex host-microbiome-pathogen relationships in bovine mastitis (HoliCow)

Bovine mastitis is an inflammatory disease of the udder, with important consequences for animal welfare and milk production. It is the most common reason for antibiotic treatment of Norwegian dairy cattle. Despite it being the greatest cause of food and economic losses in the dairy industry at a ...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Disentangling penicillin resistance and compensatory adaption in pneumococci by combining genomics and molecular microbiology.

Streptococcus pneumoniae, also known as pneumococci, can cause a range of illnesses in humans, from pneumonia and ear infections to more serious conditions such as sepsis and meningitis. Typically, pneumococcal infections can be treated with penicillin, but healthcare systems are increasingly enc...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

High somatic cell numbers in goat milk – influence on product quality

The project will facilitate the sustainable production of milk from healthy goats by providing new insights into the causes of high cell counts (SCC) in Norwegian goat milk and the impact of high SCC on milk quality, technological properties, cheese yield and the quality of goat milk products. T...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Evolving novel carbon dioxide reducing enzymes

Each year, more than 350 gigatons of carbon dioxide are converted to biomass by plants and microorganisms. This process is part of the carbon cycle that describes the overall distribution of carbon on Earth. Plants and microorganisms use enzymes to convert carbon dioxide into biomass. The bottlen...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

SeaCow: Promoting efficient, low emitting cows through nutritional manipulation of the rumen microbiome

There are 1.5 billion cows on this planet, collectively accounting for 5% of the global greenhouse-gas emission. To reduce the carbon footprint from agriculture, while also producing enough food to feed the increasing human population we are in urgent need for new solutions to ensure a sustainabl...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Nitrous oxide reduction in acidic environments

Popular science: In this project we have investigated the biogenesis of the nitrous oxide reductase (N2OR), the only enzyme that can neutralize potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). The N2O has a great global warming potential, much stronger than that of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

UnveilMe: Unveiling the role of microbial metabolites in human infant development

In the UnveilMe project, we investigated how the interaction between breast milk, microbiota, and the immune system shapes a child’s health during the first year of life. From breast milk to butyrate A key observation in UnveilMe was that butyrate turned out to be the pivotal metabolite in the tr...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

FoodPilotPlant Norway: Upgrading of the Pilot Plant Facilities for Food Processing at Campus Ås (phase II)

FoodPilotPlant Norway (Matpiloten) is a research infrastructure for food processing located at NMBU and Nofima on Campus Ås. The infrastructure has been built up through both funding from the participating institutions' and allocation of infrastructure funding from the Research Council of Norway....

Awarded: NOK 48.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2027

Location: Akershus

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Event Support for The Organic Chemical Winter Meeting 2020 (OKV 35)

The Organic Chemical Winter Meeting 2020 is a national meeting place and a forum for disseminating knowledge from the research front of and for researchers from universities and colleges, the institute sector and industry. Industry-relevant research related to natural products, biotechnology and ...

Awarded: NOK 40,379

Project Period: 2020-2020

Location: Akershus

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Det tredje LPMO symposiet

I oktober 2020 organiseres det tredje LPMO symposiet. LPMOer, eller «lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases» ble oppdaget av forskningsgruppen til Vincent Eijsink i 2010. I de ni årene som har fulgt har forskning innen denne enzymfamilien økt dramatisk, hvilket kommer tydelig frem av den store øknin...

Awarded: NOK 15,312

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Akershus

GAVEFORST-Gaveforsterkningsordningen

Fundamental studies of microbial nitrogen transformations

A core theme is the transcriptional regulation of the genes coding for nitrite reductase (NIR), nitric oxide reductase (NOR) and N2O reductase (NOS). Recently we have disovered stochastic transcription of NIR in the model bacterium, Paracoccus denitrificans, and strong expression of NOS in all ce...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Akershus

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

What makes a tree a tree? Characterization and evolution of the gene regulatory network underlying wood development

What Makes a Tree a Tree? Everything we produce from oil can also be made from trees. As a sustainable and renewable source of biomass, trees hold immense potential for both traditional and future industries. Forests also play a crucial role as the world’s largest terrestrial carbon sink, helpin...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

New generation biofertilizers for improved nitrogen management, sustainable food production and low greenhouse gas emissions

Biotechnology for reduced N2O emissions from farmland The project has searched along two tracks for reducing N2O emissions. One is to use nitrification inhibitors (NI), compounds which selectively inhibit ammonium oxidation in soil. The second is to grow N2O-reducing bacteria in the waste from bi...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Akershus

JPIAMR-JPI Antimikrobiell resistens

Fighting antimicrobial resistant infections by high-throughput discovery of biofilm-disrupting agents and mechanisms

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem worldwide. Many bacterial infections are nowadays often difficult to treat due to increasing antimicrobial resistance. Novel research tools are critical for the research community to find new strategies to fight infections cause by antibiotic resistan...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Akershus

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Purification, characterization, and structure determination of a novel antibiotic highly active against Streptococcus pneumoniae

Rapid emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria is occurring worldwide. This endangers the efficacy of antibiotics, a group of substances that have allowed modern medicine to advance rapidly and saved millions of lives. To stem the current crisis new antibacterial compounds are urgently needed. ...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Akershus

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Enterococcal RseP as a target for new diagnostics and antibiotics

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are responsible for several human infections, and their treatment has become challenging because the bacteria have become resistant to most antibiotics. In this project, we started from a recently discovered antimicrobial peptide/bacteriocin called enterocin...

Awarded: NOK 10.4 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Akershus

NORGLOBAL2-Norge - Global partner

LeapAgri: Participatory Pathways to Sust. Intensification. Innovation platforms to integrate leguminous crops into small-scale agriculture

The overarching goal of PASUSI is to improve productivity, livelihoods, nutrition and household wellbeing in Ghana and Uganda, while counteracting environmental degradation and mineral depletion caused by monocultures. A major contribution of PASUSI should be to promote sustainable production of ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Akershus

FFL-JA-Forskningsmidlene for jordbruk og matindustri

Effects of lipids composition and structure in meat and dairy foods on digestibility and low-grade inflammation in cell, animals and humans

The project has had 4 active work packages (WP) of which WP1's research focus was to determine fatty acids in SN2 positions using a quantitative 13C NMR method directly on intact triglycerides. High-field NMR and advanced signal processing found the dominant fatty acid in the SN2 position for por...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Akershus

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Phenotypic diversification in denitrification: mechanisms, prevalence and implications

Microbes rule our planet, and they colonize every habitat imaginable. Their ubiquity is due to their impressive range of lifestyles and their sheer numbers make them important drivers of Earth's biogeochemical cycles, such as the carbon- and nitrogen cycle. If a substance can be eaten or breathed...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Akershus

BEDREHELSE-Bedre helse og livskvalitet

Antimicrobial peptides (bacteriocins) as alternative to conventional antibiotics

Many skin infections are caused by bacterial pathogens and treatments of these infections have become very challenging in recent years due to antibiotic resistance. This is true for people with leprosy or diabetes who often have severe infections in the lower limbs. Improper care or lack of aware...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Akershus

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC-søkere som oppnår god evaluering

OXYENZ to ERC CoG

The submitted ERC StG proposal aimed to reveal how oxidative enzymes involved in degradation of lignocellulose work in concert. Also, since the mechanisms of several of these enzymes are not known, part of the proposal included enzyme characterization at an atomistic level. For a short introducti...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Akershus

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Innovative enzyme technology for sustainable biofuels

The conversion of lignocellulosic (non-edible) biomass to second generation biofuels is an important element of the transition to a more sustainable future. The enzymatic saccharification of cellulose to fermentable sugar is a key step and remains a major process cost, in particular for Nordic wo...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2023

Location: Akershus

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Unravelling the secrets of oxidative biomass decomposition

Enzymatic depolymerization of difficult-to-degrade polysaccharides such as chitin and cellulose is a crucial element of the global carbon cycle and of great scientific and commercial interest. A better understanding of Nature's tools for degrading cellulose- or chitin-rich co-polymeric structures...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2023

Location: Akershus

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

DL: OXYMOD - Optimized oxidative enzyme systems for efficient conversion of lignocellulose to valuable products

In the OXYMOD project scientists with different competences work on discovering, understanding and further developing enzyme systems for the conversion of lignocellulose from Norwegian biomass into valuable products like sugars and aromatic chemicals. Redox enzymes have huge potential in the depo...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Akershus

FFL-JA-Forskningsmidlene for jordbruk og matindustri

The udder microbiota in dairy cows: importance for animal health and welfare, mastitis and milk quality

The healthy bovine udder produces high quality milk and is the starting point for quality milk products. Milk from the udder may also be a source of types of lactic acid bacteria that are used for the production of fermented dairy products. Until recently, the healthy udder has been considered to...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Akershus