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PhysPharm Seminar Series | Michael Pyne
Michael Pyne, PhD, from the Biology Department will present: "From flavours to pharma: Engineering brewer’s yeast to produce high-value pharmaceuticals."
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the advantages of microbial biomanufacturing over traditional plant extraction and chemical synthesis for producing complex pharmaceuticals.
- Describe how brewer’s yeast can be engineered to produce plant-derived pharmaceuticals such as opioids.
- Explain the concept of retrobiosynthesis and how it can be used to design biosynthetic routes to natural and new-to-nature molecules.
Zoom link available upon request. Email jjacob62@uwo.ca