Newsletter 6
December 2025
Humans of TBI – 2025 edition
Who are the selected staff members of the year?
Metabolic overflow: why cells waste resources…and why it’s not really wasteful
Published in Molecular Systems Biology
[Podcast] – Can algae power an airplane?
♫ Researcher Playlist by Exploreur
Do not shoot the messenger!
A comic by Exploreur
Prices
Pierre JORIS, winner of the thesis prize awarded by the French Society for Microbiology
Schedule
CEIC-2026 – Interdisciplinary Conference on Circular Economy
1-3 July 2026 – Toulouse
2025 some highlighted publications
Biocatalysis department
- Nina Cooper, Simon Ladevèze, Ao Li, Ramteen Shayan, Régis Fauré, et al.. Structural and Functional Dissection of GH161 β-Glucan Phosphorylases: Molecular Specificities and Dynamics of Catalysis of Dimeric GH-Q Enzymes. ACS Catalysis, 2025, 15 (22), pp.19312-19327. ⟨10.1021/acscatal.5c05191⟩. ⟨hal-05377303⟩
- Clement Scipion, Jérémy Esque, Shreyash Borkar, Jing Sen Ong, Cristalle Seah, et al.. Enhanced Production of (+)-Limonene through Targeted Engineering of Citrus sinensis Limonene Synthase. ACS Synthetic Biology, 2025, 14 (6), pp.2151-2161. ⟨10.1021/acssynbio.5c00078⟩. ⟨hal-05241703⟩
Physiology and engineering of microbial metabolism department
- Thomas Gosselin-Monplaisir, Brice Enjalbert, Sandrine Uttenweiler-Joseph, Jean-Charles Portais, Stéphanie Heux, et al.. Overflow metabolism in bacterial, yeast, and mammalian cells: different names, same game. Molecular Systems Biology, 2025, ⟨10.1038/s44320-025-00145-x⟩. ⟨hal-05322476⟩
- Valeria Gabrielli, Jelena Grga, Sabine Gavalda, Laura Perrot, François-Xavier Cantrelle, et al.. Towards site-specific information on PET degrading enzymes using NMR near operational temperature. Scientific Reports, 2025, 15 (1), pp.38602. ⟨10.1038/s41598-025-22351-1⟩. ⟨hal-05350480⟩
Bioprocess and Microbial Engineering department
- Juan-Diego Carvajalino-Olave, Léa Laguillaumie, Claire Dumas, Benjamin Erable. Electroreduction of water, a promising alternative to gas injection: A case on hydrogen solubilization in biological processes involving hydrogenotrophs. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 523, pp.168494. ⟨10.1016/j.cej.2025.168494⟩. ⟨hal-05369502⟩
- Federico Di Bisceglie, Eric Lombard, R. Kratzer, N. Gorret, O. Lorain, et al.. Aerobic autotrophic isopropanol production under low H2 atmosphere in Hollow Fiber Membrane Bioreactor. Bioresource Technology, 2026, 440, pp.133407. ⟨10.1016/j.biortech.2025.133407⟩. ⟨hal-05362695⟩
Sustainable Process Engineering department
- Ugo Javourez, Aras Ahmadi, C.E. Robles Rodriguez, L. Tiruta-Barna, Lorie Hamelin. Multisectoral Optimization of Residual Resource Valorization for the Bioeconomy. Environmental Science and Technology, 2025, ⟨10.1021/acs.est.5c06495⟩. ⟨hal-05064110v2⟩
- Adriana Pereira C. Sánchez, Cécile Pouzet, Audrey Beaussart, Bruno Lartiges, Cécile Formosa-Dague. Surface-dependent reorganization of Chlorella vulgaris cell wall components revealed by AFM and SRS microscopy. The Cell Surface, 2025, pp.100160. ⟨10.1016/j.tcsw.2025.100160⟩. ⟨hal-05351382⟩