Exploring the Potential of Microbial Lipids as Sustainable Resources
Exploring the Potential of Microbial Lipids as Sustainable Resources
Description
Join this exciting course to explore how microbial lipids can become a game-changing resource for sustainable development. Dive into their cutting-edge production, extraction, and analysis through both online theory sessions and hands-on lab work at INSA Toulouse. Your mission? Analyze lipids from a yeast strain with real-world biotechnological applications. This unique hybrid module offers an opportunity to collaborate with international peers, combining online teamwork with a one-week, on-campus lab experience. You’ll design and execute experiments, applying your academic knowledge in a practical, professional setting. By the end, you’ll not only enhance your scientific skills but also gain invaluable experience working in diverse, multidisciplinary teams. Develop time management, refine your problem-solving abilities, and finish this micromodule with the expertise to contribute to a sustainable future.
The Team
Teamchers
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Learners
- Study period
- 3 March – 6 June 2025
- Study format
- Blended
- Application period
- 27 January – 26 February 2025
- Credits
- 3 ECTS
- Hosting university
- INSA Group
- Topics
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Value and progress
Explain the potential role of vegetable lipids within the bioeconomy.
By the end of this micromodle, you will be able to explain the the concept of the bioeconomy and the role of vegetable lipids as an important synthon for oleochemistry (the study of vegetable and animal fats). You will also be able to explain the the role of future microbial lipids and biotechnology for future molecules.
ESCO SKILLS
Apply knowledge of organic chemistry and biomolecule extraction in an experimental capacity.
By the end of this micromodule, you will be able to analyse different experimentation protocol methods to better inform the application of your knowledge of organic chemistry and biomolecule extraction in experimental contexts to answer a specific scientific question.
ESCO SKILLS
Work effectively in an international team
By the end of this micromodule, you will be able to work effectively in an international, multicultural, and multidisciplinary team. You will be able to organise and present the experimental work your group has completed in a way that this appropriate for your audience.
ESCO SKILLS
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Hosting university
INSA Group
