报告摘要：

She will discuss how metabolic engineering can enable solutions for more sustainable food production. She will present two examples from my laboratory, on the production of insect sex pheromones for safe and environmentally friendly pest control and on the production of natural betalain-type food colors. Also, high-throughput metabolic engineering approaches that accelerate strain development will be discussed.

报告人简介：

Prof. Irina Borodina directs a research group on Yeast Metabolic Engineering at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Her research focuses on advancing the methodologies for metabolic engineering of yeast cell factories for the sustainable production of bulk and high-value chemicals. She received a Chemical Engineering degree from Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania in 2001 and a PhD degree in Biotechnology from DTU in 2007. Dr. Borodina has authored 93 peer-reviewed articles, which have been cited 7,300 times, and she is co-inventor of 20 patent families. She is also co-founder and R&D Director of a start-up biotech company BioPhero that produces insect pheromones for environmentally friendly pest control (www.biophero.com). She received 2016 Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering, 2019 Equinor Prize, and was selected as a 2019 EU Women Innovator. She is Co-founder/R&D Director Pheromones, BioPhero ApS (now part of FMC Corp.).