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Joint Conference
GLOBAL APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY CONFERENCE
MICROBIAL & BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGIES
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October 18-19, 2017
Toronto, Canada
International Congress on
M
icrobes are the workhorses of most biochemistry
laboratories, especially those focusing on proteins and
enzymes. While everyone recognises their value as production
machines (providing large quantities of pure proteins in a few
hours), some other aspects deserve consideration. Protein
evolution, new enzyme identification and genetic modification
are some examples of extremely useful abilities afforded by
our microscopic friends. In this talk the author will quickly
browse through several and very different achievements
that were made possible by microbes in this laboratory. The
author will then focus on methodologies that they developed,
especially regarding microbial lipases characterisation. At the
end this presentation, the author will present our most recent
findings on a microbial cocktail found on an oil recycling plant.
Using used lubricant as a carbon source, this unique microbial
consortium produces a bioplastic whose structure resembles
that of a polyvinyl.
Speaker Biography
Marc Beauregard got his PhD in Biophysics from UQTR in 1989 and then moved to
pursue his Post-doc positions with Max-Planck-Institute (Germany), University of Liège
(Belgium) and Agriculture Canada. After being tenured at UPEI (1997) and Université
de Moncton (1998), he became full Professor of Biochemistry at UQTR (Québec,
Canada) and is a member of the Research Center on Lignocellulosic Materials since
2011. His teaching duties include Protein Spectrocsopy and Bioinformatics. He has his
expertise in protein biotechnology, and his contributions rely on a wealth of various
techniques spanning from plant heterologous expression, accelerated evolution, and
development of industrial applications. With his group he has published 70+ papers,
some in high impact journals (Nature Biotechnology, Green Chemistry, PNAS) and has
contributed to preparing four patents. He founded a Biotechnology company in 2000,
has served as Director of Graduate Studies (Biophysics) and has been invited on major
research committees in Canada.
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marc.beauregard@uqtr.caMarc Beauregard
UQTR, Canada
A biochemist’s odyssey in microbial research and techniques