Thank you very much for your friendly invitation.

Thomas has already described a lot of my stations and also the different micro-organisms

that I have worked with.

The metabolism of cells is what the work is connected with.

The metabolism fascinates me, actually, as a studio.

It is always fascinating to see how to get up at the same time,

thousands of reactions can be released.

The metabolism is not always a bit of an achter-like experience,

between knowledge, where you have understood something,

and often often also new challenges that are somehow to be solved.

Today I would like to present you a few examples of work that I have been through,

where metabolism has to play a role,

and how it can be used in biotechnological research.

Biotechnology is actually seen as a key technology

to see the transition of a world of now fossilized,

more circular economy.

We all know that we have to reduce our emissions from fossilized substances,

and we can try to use micro-organisms as small factories

and to create metabolism so that we can create interesting products

that can be used as a living medium, as a work-stock,

plastic or as a power-stock.

The special thing is that the processes are running at low temperatures

and the growth of raw materials are still in the sugar.

As I said, to achieve that, we have to somehow achieve

that we develop a large-scale process,

which is really a very large-scale chemical process

based on the petroleum chemistry.

Well, if you look at what the challenges are,

such as biological networks,

all the reactions that are being developed in such a cell,

with an archival system,

you can see that there are many different chemical applications

that have developed with engineers, and have defined

the reaction network, which is built in a certain goal.

In cells, I have a complex network of reactions,

and the production plus pathways

do not allow completely the other reactions

that are running in cells.

In cells, especially in systems that are evolving over time,

and we have no master plan

on which reactions are being developed,

but we have to somehow try to get out of it.

Well, and here I think the engineer comes in the game

when he is in such a complex task,

you do not step into the head in the sand,

but try to find methods to get the whole thing into the grid,

and I would like to show you a few examples.

First example, what I would like to discuss is the production of sugarcane.

That was a collaboration with DSM Rocket,

who has founded Joint Venture with the name Reverdia,