Bio-inspired and bionic materials for enhanced photosynthesis

Project Information

BEEP

Grant agreement ID: 860125

DOI 10.3030/860125

Project closed

EC signature date 5 September 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 31 December 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 2 531 960,64

EU contribution € 2 531 960,64

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

Deliverables

Documents, reports (5)

Summary of press releases
Exhibition in IIT
Final confirmation that all ESRs are hired
Summary of pubblished paper Papers
Summary of Conferences (abstracts)

Summary of Conferences attende by ESR (abstracts)

Other (9)

Workshop on Introduction to R&D in industry-prep for job search
Workshop on Public Outreach
Positions advertisement
Spring School
"""MSCA Ambassadors"""

ESR participtign to “MSCA Ambassadors” program

Workshop on Soft Skills

1st Training Workshop Bioinspiration and Soft Skills

"Session on ""Living Light """

Session on “Living Light “

Exhibition in Cambridge
Workshop on Technology Transfer and Innovation

Workshop on sTechnology Transfer and Innovation

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Managment Plan

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

BEEP first website

BEEP first website pages online

Short videos of PIs

Short videos of PIs for outreach

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Influence of structural colour on the photoprotective mechanism in the gametophyte phase of the red alga Chondrus crispus

Author(s): Ariel García Fleitas, Samim Sardar, Margot Minju Arnould-Pétré, Maria Murace, Silvia Vignolini, Juliet Brodie, Guglielmo Lanzani and Cosimo D'Andrea
Published in: Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Issue Volume 21, Issue 211, 2024, ISSN 1742-5689
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0676

A Two-Step Process for Improved Biomass Production and Non-Destructive Astaxanthin and Carotenoids Accumulation in Haematococcus pluvialis

Author(s): Arianna Rizzo Michael E. Ross Alessandra Norici Bruno Jesus
Published in: Applied Sciences, 2022, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app12031261

Insight on the Intracellular Supramolecular Assembly of DTTO: A Peculiar Example of Cell-Driven Polymorphism

Author(s): Ludovico Aloisio, Matteo Moschetta, Alex Boschi, Ariel García Fleitas, Mattia Zangoli, Ilaria Venturino, Vito Vurro, Arianna Magni, Raffaello Mazzaro, Vittorio Morandi, Andrea Candini, Cosimo D'Andrea, Giuseppe Maria Paternò, Massimo Gazzano, Guglielmo Lanzani, Francesca Di Maria
Published in: Advanced Materials, 2023, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202302756

Development of a new kappa-carrageenan hydrogel system to study benthic diatom vertical movements

Author(s): Arianna Rizzo Alessandro Ajò Huixuan Kang Luisa De Cola Bruno Jesus
Published in: PlosOne, 2024, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297962

Light-Emitting Biosilica by In Vivo Functionalization of Phaeodactylum tricornutum Diatom Microalgae with Organometallic Complexes

Author(s): Danilo Vona; Roberta Ragni; Emiliano Altamura; Paola Albanese; Maria M. Giangregorio; Stefania R. Cicco; Gianluca M. Farinola
Published in: Applied Sciences, 2021, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app11083327

Structural color in the bacterial domain: the ecogenomics of an optical phenotype

Author(s): Aldert Zomer Colin J. Ingham F. A. Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt Álvaro Escobar Doncel Gea T. van de Kerkhof Raditijo Hamidjaja Sanne Schouten Lukas Schertel Karin H. Müller Laura Catón Richard L. Hahnke Henk Bolhuis Silvia Vignolini Bas E. Dutilh
Published in: PNAS, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences

Microscale imaging sheds light on species-specific strategies for photo-regulation and photo-acclimation of microphytobenthic diatoms

Author(s): Bruno Jesus Thierry Jauffrais Eirk Trampe Vona Méléder Lourenco Ribeiro Joan M. Bernhard Emmanuelle Geslin Michael Kuhl
Published in: Enironmental Microbiology, 2023, ISSN 1462-2920
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16499

Polydopamine coating of living diatom microalgae

Author(s): Danilo Vona, Stefania R. Cicco, Roberta Ragni, Cesar Vicente-Garcia, Gabriella Leone, Maria Michela Giangregorio, Fabio Palumbo, Emiliano Altamura & Gianluca M. Farinola
Published in: Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences (PPS), Issue 21, 2022, ISSN 1474-9092
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s43630-022-00185-4

Supramolecular Biohybrid Construct for Photoconversion Based on a Bacterial Reaction Center Covalently Bound to Cytochrome c by an Organic Light Harvesting Bridge

Author(s): Gabriella Buscemi Massimo Trotta Danilo Vona Gianluca M. Farinola Francesco Milano Roberta Ragni
Published in: Bioconjugate Chem., Issue 34, 4, 629–637, 2023, ISSN 1520-4812
Publisher: American Chemistry Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.2c00527

Inkjet Printed Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Patterns

Author(s): Cyan A. Williams, Richard M. Parker, Andrew Kyriacou, Maria Murace, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advances Materials, Issue Vol 36, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202307563

Incorporating a molecular antenna in diatom microalgae cells enhances photosynthesis

Author(s): Gabriella Leone, Gabriel De la Cruz Valbuena, Stefania Roberta Cicco, Danilo Vona, Emiliano Altamura, Roberta Ragni, Egle Molotokaite, Michela Cecchin, Stefano Cazzaniga, Matteo Ballottari, Cosimo D’Andrea, Guglielmo Lanzani & Gianluca Maria Farinola
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-84690-z

Does Structural Color Exist in True Fungi

Author(s): Juliet Brodie; Colin J. Ingham; Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Journal of Fungi, Vol 7, Iss 141, p 141 (2021), Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 2309-608X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jof7020141

Biomimetic Approaches to “Transparent” Photovoltaics: Current and Future Applications

Author(s): Michele Pompilio Ioannins Ierides Franco Cacialli
Published in: Molecules, Issue 28(1), 2022, ISSN 1420-3049
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/molecules28010180

The role of host pigments in coral photobiology

Author(s): Gabriel Ferreira Elena Bollati Michael Kühl
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1204843

Conference proceedings (1)

Straightforward and effective removal of phenolic compounds from water by Polydopamine coated Diatomaceous Earth

Author(s): Cesar Vicente-Garcia Valentina Losacco Danilo Vona Stefania Cicco Emiliano Altamura Gianluca Maria Farinola Roberta Ragni
Published in: International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea; Learning to Measure Sea Health Parameters (MetroSea), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/metrosea52177.2021.9611568