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Ecodesign of fruit and vegetable postharvest chain: Optimization of packaging and cold chain – EcoFreshChain
The objective is to design a new biodegradable cellulose packaging and combine it with refrigeration to preserve fruits and vegetables along the post-harvest chain until consumption. Several issues related to the developed packaging are studied: heat/moisture transfers and air flow within the pallet
HYPERthermophiles and their BIOMINeralization mechanism – HYPERBIOMIN
The HYPERBIOMIN project follows on from recent studies (Gorlas et al., 2015; Gorlas et al., 2018) and provides new insights into the relationships between metabolism, genetics, and high-temperature biomineralization. It has enabled the development of a realistic experimental model of hydrothermal ch
Earth Observation with Optimal Transport for Artificial Intelligence – OTTOPIA
Earth Observation, whether it be by satellites, airborne captors or drones, allows a better understanding of the dynamics of environmental systems or our human society. It is a decisive tool to measure the impact of mankind on earth. In the last 50 years, the fast development of spatial missions and
Structure and function of the cellular target of the anti-Shiga toxin drug candidate Retro-2.1 – SMERSEC
The new chemical entity Retro-2 has a remarkable capacity to protect cells and mice from Shiga-like toxins, ricin, and a number of viruses, without toxicity. The optimized analogue Retro-2.1 is being developed as a drug candidate to prevent the hemolytic and uremic syndrome, a deadly complication of
Valorization of CO2 through BIOMethanation and INTENSification of gas-liquid mass transfer – BIOMIntens
In the light of CO2 valorization and further reduction of greenhouse gases emissions, the BIOMIntens project aims at intensifying the biological methanation process (BIOM), which itself constitutes a building block of the Power-to-Gas strategy platform for the long-term and seasonal electrical energ
Peptidoglycan cross-linking by L,D-transpeptidases in Clostridioides difficile: role in antibiotic resistance and toxin release – DIFFICROSS
C. difficile poses a serious, ongoing, public health threat. Patients are typically colonized by C. difficile after antibiotics treatment, which disrupts the intestinal microbiota homeostasis. ß-lactam antibiotics are recognized as major causative agents of C. difficile infection but the molecular m
Optimization of Required and Accessible Manufacturing Made Necessary by an Eminent Sanitary Crisis – Odefrance
The ODEFRANCE project aims to provide the Hauts-de-France region with the capacity to take care of patients in crisis period when marketed pharmaceutical specialties can no longer be transported due to a disruption in the supply chain. Indeed, the latest health crisis has shown that certain specialt
Pseudopaline trafficking in Pseudomonas aeruginosa – PseudoTraffic
Metallophores are molecules with a high affinity for metals, synthesized, secreted and recovered by bacteria in order to ensure constant availability of metals, especially in most hostile environments such as the one encountered during bacterial infection of a host. In this context, we have recently
Reactive Electrochemical MEMbranes Bioreactor for the valoRization of wastewater – REMemBer
Wastewater represents a massive amount of water (13 to 15 million m3 / day in France) that could be used as a potentially worthwhile resource, regardless of seasonal droughts. However, wastewater treatment plants are currently not able to achieve in a cost-effective way a sufficient water quality fo
Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Study of Carriers Localization in Nitride Devices – TECCLON
Modern (opto)electronic devices rely on band engineering capabilities, made possible by the use of semiconductor heterostructures in which band gaps, offsets and strains in the active layers are optimized by associating pure compounds and alloys. High electron mobility transistors create two-dimensi
