Transforming Trash: Steps to sustainably process and extract value from plastic waste
Engineering Efficiency: Harnessing microorganisms to convert waste into valuable products
New Beginnings: Creating next-gen materials from single-use plastics for a circular economy
Establishment of a high-performance Research and Innovation Hub for Synthetic Microbial Biotechnology, elevating NTUA’s profile, addressing the innovation gap among the European Union countries, all the while delivering impactful socio-enviro-economic outputs via new circular petro- and bioplastics lifecycles.
Scientific community expansion
We have diverse and complementary backgrounds in enzyme biochemistry and biocatalysis, plastic recycling technologies, molecular genetics and biotechnology, synthetic biology and microbial engineering.
The creation of microbial cell factories, capable of producing significant quantities of valuable and innovative bioproducts through fermentation of plastic waste-derived feedstocks
Stay updated with our latest innovations, research breakthroughs, sustainability initiatives, and upcoming events and outreach efforts.
Dr. Jasmina Nikodinović-Runić introduced TwInn4MicroUp and presented the EDB laboratory’s research during an invited lecture at the VIVENDI Workshop on biomass valorisation in Belgrade.
A new study published in Microbiological Research reports the first complete circular genome of Zobellella denitrificans MW1 — a halotolerant, facultatively anaerobic bacterium with high poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) productivity. The work integrates genome-scale analysis with multi-scale cultivation data to establish MW1 as a genomically resolved chassis for sustainable bioplastic production from sucrose-rich industrial feedstocks under saline conditions.
TwInn4MicroUp Coordinator Prof. Evangelos Topakas and Konstantinos Grigorakis from NTUA presented their work on plastic biorefineries and deep learning at iGEM Fest ’26, a two-day synthetic biology event organized by the iGEM Athens team.
