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August 2011

Planning for the Glyfinery workshop is underway.  A joint event with the SUPERMETHANOL project (www.supermethanol.eu) will be held in Brussels on December 13th 2011. Contact Mhairi Workman ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) for further information on participation.

July 2011

The third year report for the project is now complete and approved.  The findings of the third year of the project are summarised here.

March 2011

Half yearly meeting of the GLYFINERY consortium in Gdynia, Poland.

December 2010

Poster presentation from the Glyfinery consortium at the International conference on Synthetic Biology, Evry, France, December 2010. Yarrowia lipolytica: A potential novel cell factory for biorefineries.  Holt, P., Thykær, J., Jensen, P.R. and Workman, M.

September 2010 

Some of the key findings of the second year of the project can now be publicised. These are in the form of reports on the project deliverables listed below.

D3.11 Performance characteristics of the mixed microbial cultures for production of methane.

A summary of the first two years of the project can be found here.

June 2010

Poster presentation from the Glyfinery consortium at the 6th International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries, Düsseldorf, Germany. (GLYFINERY - a biorefinery for the integrated production of value added products from glycerol. Workman, M., Mikkelsen, M.J., Dabrowski, S., Reinhardt, G., Harustiak, D., Barski, P., Jensen, P.R.)

Poster presentation from the Glyfinery consortium at the 4th Conference on Physiology of Yeast and Filamentous Fungi, Rotterdam, The Neterlands. (Development of non-conventional yeast cell factories for bioconversion of wastes. Workman, M., Liu, X., Holt, P., Jensen, P.R.)

May 2010

Poster presentations from the Glyfinery consortium at the 5th Danish Conference on Biotechnology and Molecular Biology.                          

A bioconversion platform based on non-conventional yeasts. Holt, P., Thykær, J., Jensen, P.R., Workman, M.

GLYFINERY - A biorefinery for the sustainable and integrated production of liquid biofuels, green chemicals and bioenergy from glycerol. Workman, M. Hansen, A.C.H., Liu, X. and Jensen, P.R.

April 2010

Half yearly meeting of the Glyfinery consortium at Meroco, Slovakia

The second annual report of the Glyfinery consortium is complete!  Results will follow here.

September 2009

Half yearly meeting of the Glyfinery consortium at IFEU, Heidelberg, Germany.

August 2009

Several key findings from the first year of the GLYFINERY project are available to the public.  These are in the form of reports on the project deliverables listed below.

D2.1 Chemical characterization of the glycerol feedstocks

D2.2 Assessment of the anaerobic biodegradability of the glycerol feedstocks

D7.1 Technological assessment: Report based on flow charts

D7.2 Environmental assessment: Report based on definitions

D7.3 Economic assessment: Report based on definitions

A summary of the first year of the project can be found here.

April 2009 

The first annual report of the GLYFINERY project is complete.  Key results will be publicised here. 

April 2009 

Presentaion of the GLYFINERY project and involvement of A&A Biotechnology in the 7th Framework programme at meeting of the Regional Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer (RCIiTT), Szczecin, Poland.

March 2009 

Half yearly eeting of the GLYFINERY consortium at A&A Biotechnology and ProChimia Surfaces, Gdynia, Poland.

February 2009
The GLYFINERY website is open!

January 2009
Oral presentation of the GLYFINERY project at Annual Plant Biotech Denmark meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. The programme and presentation can be seen here (http://www.plant-biotech.dk/Meetings/AnnualPBDMeeting2009-programme.asp).

November 2008
General Assembly of the GLYFINERY consortium at DTU, Lyngby, Denmark.

May 2008
Kick off meeting for the GLYFINERY project in Brussels, Belgium.

March 2008
GLYFINERY project starts!