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Medina Foundation Seminar: "How Fungi Will Save Us from The Climate Change Apocalypse".

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The Medina Foundation Organized by a seminar by Dr. Pablo Cruz-Morales, Senior researcher and Group Leader in the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustability (Lyngby, Denmark), who will teach a talk titled "How Fungi Will Save Us From The Climate Change Apocalypse".

Dr. Pablo Cruz-Morales uses his knowledge in evolution to accelerate discovery and facilitate the production of natural products and other chemicals, leading to products and processes that will improve human health through a green and sustainable chemistry.

Event details:

  • Date: April 3, 2025
  • Time: 12:00 - 13:00, followed by a small snack to accompany networking.
  • Place: Assembly Hall, Medina Foundation, PTS Granada
  • Mode: Face-to-face (without registration) and retransmitted via zoom (prior registration necessary X-Spam-Flag: Yes X-Spam-Flag: Yes here)

About the rapporteur: Dr. Pablo Cruz-Morales is a biochemical engineer of Villahermosa, Mexico and the evolution, diversity and biosynthesis of natural products is dedicated to the study. His research involves a combination of chemistry, molecular and genetic evolution. From the fall of 2021, he directs the Laboratory of Yaest Natural Products in the Novo Nordisk Center for Biosustability of the Technical University of Denmark.

His research group works on the development of new platforms to produce chemicals exploiting the impressive chemistry of the kingdom of fungi. In addition, he has lived and worked as a scientist in Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Australia, the United States and Denmark.

Abstract: For about 150 years industrial chemistry has revolved around petroleum. Our transportation, food, and health are dangerously linked to this non-renewable resource that will be depleted in about 50 years. The world urgently needs new chemical processes that can support us sustainably.

Fungi are extraordinary chemists; they make molecules for competition, attack, defense, communication, deception, energy-storage, and structure-building. We study fungal chemistry to learn how to use it to make polymers, drugs, agrochemicals, fuels for aviation, rocketry, and shipping,

Our work involves collecting and cultivating fungi, usually complex species with limited knowledge available. We look at the natural chemicals they produce, and decode the chemical recipes stored in their DNA. We then transfer the DNA-written recipes to simpler, laboratory-friendly fungi who can then make the chemicals. We modify the recipes to create variants of the natural chemicals, iterating this process until we get molecules suitable for human needs.

In this talk I will present our fungal chemical discovery and engineering platform and some of their potential applications.

 

For those who cannot attend in person, the seminar will be broadcast via zoom. To receive the link, it is necessary to register in the following link: https://bit.ly/3Fjnr4T

For more information, do not hesitate to contact the Medina Foundation through info@medinaandalucia.es.

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