Our team met at Córdoba to kick off our @horizoneu.bsky.social project last month! 🇪🇺 “It was a fantastic opportunity for everyone to dive into the plans for metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria.” Partners sharer their experience and roles in the C5 project. Thank you for hosting us @uco.es!

Last week, I attended the kick-off meeting for our EU-funded C5 project in Cordoba, Spain. It was great to discuss our plans for the metabolic engineering of Cyanobacteria in detail with all partners, and I really enjoyed the visit to sunny Andalusia.

☀️𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 S2B - Solar To Butanol🧫 Jani Sillman 👤 received the M.S degree in environmental sciences in 2016 and D.S. in sustainability science in 2021 from LUT University. Currently, he is working as a post-doc researcher in the LUT School of Energy Systems. Read more ⬇️⬇️

If you are attending #AlgaEurope2025 next week, we will be presenting our UzMAn project results conducted at ISS last year 🚀🥗

Read about our @horizoneu.bsky.social project coordinator’s talk and experience at a session on photosynthetic microorganisms for sustainable development! ☀️🧪 sunperform.eu/sun-perform-...

🎉𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝟐𝐛 - 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐥! ☀️ On 16–17 October 2025, the partners of S2B – Solar to Butanol – met in Stockholm, Sweden, to celebrate the project’s first year of activities. 💡Want to know more about our progress this year? 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 ➡️https://lnkd.in/e6JUqn4x

🌿Meet the organisers of the Young Algaeneers Symposium (YAS) at #AlgaeEurope 2025 in Riga!🌿 📢👩‍💻YAS-Chair Elisa Werner will be presenting YAS26, which will take place in Wageningen in May 2026. If you want to know more about YAS, come talk to us! 💚 #YoungAlgaeneers #YAS2026 #EABA #VLAG #algae

Our @horizoneu.bsky.social project member Áureo Cutillas @a-cf.bsky.social will be part of the local team on the next Young Algaeneers Symposium #YAS2026! 🧪🧑‍🔬 This wonderful, community-based, event will happen on 26–29 May 2026 @w-u-r.bsky.social. Learn more at yas.eaba-association.org/en ℹ️

🌿 Help us create the best YAS for YOU! 💚 ✔️ Vote on topics ✔️ Suggest speakers ✔️ Share what matters most to you 🌱 Your ideas will help make YAS26 truly special. Survey link below 👇 Open until the 13.11. forms.gle/EqBS1k6zk9uo... #YAS2026 #EABA #AlgaeEurope

Oh happy day! The latest research funded by RobuCop was just published in Nature Plants 🥳 Read below on a modular high-throughput approach for chloroplast engineering in Chlamy! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @unimarburg.bsky.social @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social @proloewe.bsky.social

Are you going to AlgaEurope 2025 in Riga this December? If so, take the chance to hear about our #HorizonEU project from our coordinator Sarah D'Adamo and partner Olaf Kruse. 💬 They will be speaking on December 11 in a panel discussion on “New Genetic Technologies”. 🧬 🧪

☀️ 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 🧫 Elia Giovanni Marelli 👤 is a PhD candidate at the University of Turku, Finland. His research focuses on developing a sustainable, solar-driven platform for the production of butanol, a versatile drop-in biofuel and chemical feedstock. Read more in comments ⬇️

Istituto per i Sistemi Biologici’s Green Christmas Session is going to be a great chance to chat about how photosynthetic microorganisms can help us to achieve sustainable development. 🎟️ Online from 2 to 3 December. Info and free registrations: www.isb.cnr.it/green-christ...

A #Physcomitrella photobioreactor #mossmonday #BlueSkyMossFotos

Many Max Planck scientists have started sharing their #research findings on #BlueSky. Follow their posts and join the conversation! 👋 go.bsky.app/BYcBy6R #StarterPack

Our coordinating partner, @w-u-r.bsky.social was at the Dutch National Biotechnology Conference (NBC) this past September. Congratulations on sharing what SUN-PERFORM is working on with the #biotech community! 👏 Photos by Nederlandse Biotechnologie Vereniging at NBC 2025 at Omnia, Wageningen

Interesting webinar! The @horizoneu.bsky.social projects ALFAFUELS and SUSTEPS will talk about how they developing ways to produce more sustainable fuels for the aviation and transport sectors. ♻️🛫🚚 Register for free before 16 December 2025! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🗓️ On 16th and 17th October 2025, S2B - Solar To Butanol project partners gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, for the 2025 Consortium Meeting. @scilifelab.se / KTH hosted the event and gave a tour of the lab. 🧪 🎥 Stay tuned for the lab tour and meeting aftermovie! www.s2b-project.eu

Our team met in Amsterdam this week to share updates on our progress towards more efficient solar fuel production: many results, a few challenges, and new members! 🔔 A big thank you to our partners at @uva.nl for welcoming us at Amsterdam Science Park. 🙌

One of our earliest career researcher just completed her Master’s degree! 🔆 Congratulations Linda Costantini and thank you for sharing the life cycle assessment of our approach to more efficient solar fuel production at the European Biomass Conference & Exhibition. 🙌

Our coordinator, Sarah d’Adamo, will be in Rome next month at Istituto per i Sistema Biologici to present “Towards Industrial Photosynthetic Factories: A SUN-PERFORM Perspective.” ☀️⛽ Register now for “Photosynthetic Microorganisms for Sustainable Development” www.isb.cnr.it/green-christ...

Today we’re reading a wonderful review of the development of microalgal biofuels in the past 10 years. 🛣️ In a nutshell, the recent development of new strains, genetic editing, and better equipment, makes large-scale production of microalgae biofuel worth re-evaluating. doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Many of our partners joined a course on “Microalgae Process Design: from Cells to Photobioreactors” at @w-u-r.bsky.social this past Summer! 🎓 Read about their experiences, what they learned, and how they are applying this new knowledge in our #HorizonEU project.💡 sunperform.eu/sun-perform-...

The European Commission is pleased to launch this new Science, Research & Innovation account. We look forward to connecting with the community on Bluesky! 🧪 Here you will find: - EU scientific news - Horizon Europe funding opportunities - Innovative EU-supported projects - Events, tools & resources

Introducing a new metabolic cycle - the McG cycle - into Arabidopsis to convert 3PG to acetyl coA. This then feeds into endogenous lipid synthesis increasing plant lipids, seed yield and biomass. Out this week in @science.org! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience

Meet Jasmin Fisher Balil, one of our @horizoneu.bsky.social project partners from the University of Amsterdam! 🌞 As part of Peter Schall’s group, Jasmin is working on nano materials that convert UV and blue light into far-red light, a type of light that algae crave! 🔴➡️🔵

What we are reading today: @ec.europa.eu approves €36 million Danish State aid scheme to boost use of sustainable aviation fuel. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Excited to share a main project from my PhD, out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social! 📝 We've designed and brought to life the “CORE cycle” – a new-to-nature pathway that provides a novel route for biological CO2 capture 🦠🌱 nature.com/articles/s41... Take a look! Thread below... 🧵

Meet Olaf Kruse, one of our partners from Bielefeld University! Together with his team at CeBiTec, Olaf is developing microalgae cell factories to turn carbon dioxide into more sustainable fuels. Stay tuned to meet more of the amazing people behind our #HorizonEU project. 🌞

Did you have the chance to check our brief opinion piece about sustainable aviation fuels? #SAF We lay out a few facts and thoughts on how this technology could be a part of the energy transition puzzle. ⛽♻️ www.linkedin.com/pulse/sustai...

Meet Sarah D'Adamo, our coordinator from @w-u-r.bsky.social! She and her team are working on new microalgae to improve solar fuel production. Stay tuned to hear from more of the people behind our #HorizonEU project. 🌞

I am happy to share that a joint EIC Pathfinder Challenges project has been funded. The C5 consortium will develop disruptive technology for the sustainable production of isoprene from carbon dioxide. Stay tuned for more updates and open positions. cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...

Last week, our partners from Politecnico di Torino attended the EUBCE - European Biomass Conference & Exhibition! 🇪🇺 Linda Costantini and Matteo Prussi guided participants through our proposed Life Cycle Assessment methods and scenarios, collecting their feedback to refine the process! ♻️ #EUBCE2025

Aviation may only account for 2% of global emissions, but a single round-trip flight could equal your entire annual carbon budget by 2030. The pressure is on to make aviation more sustainable! 🛬 📉 For example, our #HorizonEU team is working on more efficient solar fuels! youtu.be/vOBjtotp-Gw?...

A promising example of how light-manipulating materials can boost renewable fuels! Our @horizoneu.bsky.social project is developing nanocrystals that convert UV and blue light into algae-preferred red light, maximizing lipid production for solar fuels! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in life cycle assessment and the energy transition? Join us in Valencia on 10 June and help us optimise our strategy for innovative solar fuel production technologies! ♻️ 🌞 Learn more and register at eubce.com/polito-in-workshop-2025/ #EUBCE2025 #EnergyTransition #RenewableFuels

Congratulations @yagut.bsky.social @utu.fi on presenting S2B! We hope the audience got excited about “solar-driven chemical and fuel production!” 👏

Curious about our @horizoneu.bsky.social funding and our sister project @s2b-project.eu? 🇪🇺☀️⛽ Get all the details in our shared goals in our latest press release: sunperform.eu/eu-funds-joi...

In 2023, the @ec.europa.eu Joint Research Center published a report on solar fuels in the EU. It stressed a major challenge: low conversion efficiency in photobiological systems. Read the report at setis.ec.europa.eu/solar-fuels-... #SolarToX #ClimateNeutral

Our team was at a joint roadmapping event to hear from many experts on solar-to-chemical conversion technologies! 🇪🇺 “Europe’s energy future requires focused collaboration, and this event created a valuable space to engage with diverse voices,” says Sarah D'Adamo. sunperform.eu/sun-perform-...

If you are a young researcher or professional interested in the technical and regulatory challenges of decarbonizing freight and aviation, check out this expert-packed spring school by Politecnico di Torino! #Decarbonisation #YoungResearchers docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today we are reading how combining microalgae’s photosynthetic power with bacteria’s production capabilities could help produce valuable compounds for healthcare or biochemical research! Read the open-access article by Yong-Su Jin at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today, we are reading how Erwin Reisner’s research group @reisnerlab.bsky.social designed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide from the air to convert it into fuel, using sunlight as the power source. ☀️ Read the open-access publication at doi.org/10.1038/s415... www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

📢 22nd International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization 🌍 Lisbon 🗓 June 23-27 #ICCDU2025 Erwin Reisner @reisnerlab.bsky.social will tell us all about solar-powered #CO2 #bioconversion @iccdu_xxii @fctnova @istecnico.bsky.social @spquimica

During our recent consortium meeting in Marburg, we visited the cutting-edge research facilities at @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social. Thank you, Nicole Paczia & Timo Glatter, for showing us around your Metabolomics and Proteomics installations! 🧪 #Microbiology #SynBio #SolarFuels #HorizonEU

S2B 🔆 is a European project focused on developing a new approach to butanol production using photosynthetic cell factories. 🎯To enhance the direct conversion of solar energy and CO₂ into butanol 🌍 8 EU partners | 💡 €4M budget | ⏳ 48 months (2024-2028) @horizoneu.bsky.social

Master #Glycan Assembly (AGA) for complex oligo- & #polysaccharides! Learn our lab's technique ( @peterseeberger.bsky.social ) for successful #glycosylation. This video: solving excess water in solvents & reagents. Stay tuned for more. #glycotime tinyurl.com/27da9p5s

Our partners @w-u-r.bsky.social and @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social demonstrated how synthetic metabolism can outperform the Calvin cycle—nature’s mechanism for CO2 fixation. Read the full, open-access Nature Microbiology article at doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SyntheticBiology #MetabolicEngineering

This week, we are at “Sustainability Meets Scalability,” a joint EIC-SUNERGY roadmapping event on renewable hydrogen, fuels, and chemicals! 🇪🇺 ☀️ Come by our rollup to learn more about our approach to improving solar fuel production! Visit us at sunperform.eu #SolarFuels #RenewableFuels #EUeic

Our consortium met at @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social, hosted by Tobias Erb, to review our latest updates, map out the next steps, and tour the institute’s research facilities. ☀️⛽️ Learn more about our approach to more efficient solar fuel production at sunperform.eu