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36<header class="page-header"><div class="container"><p class="eyebrow">News &amp; events</p><h1>Research in conversation.</h1><p class="page-lead">Publications, training, consortium meetings and public engagement.</p><nav aria-label="Browse news by year" class="partner-jump"><a href="#year-2026">2026</a><a href="#year-2025">2025</a><a href="#year-2024">2024</a><a href="#year-2023">2023</a><a href="#year-2022">2022</a><a href="#further-activities">Further activities</a></nav></div></header>
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38<section class="news-year" id="year-2026"><h2>2026</h2><div class="news-grid">
39<article class="news-card" id="physical-learning-preprint-v3"><div class="card-meta"><span>Preprint</span><time datetime="2026-08-31">31 August 2026</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.18.712691">A local learning rule for engineered bacteria</a></h3><p>The latest bioRxiv revision from Satya Prakash and colleagues describes a genetically encoded learning rule in engineered bacteria. The work acknowledges PhotoSynH2.</p>
40<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.18.712691">Read more ↗</a></article>
41<article class="news-card" id="compact-and-promoters"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2026-07-27">27 July 2026</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s13036-026-00728-8">Compact genetic switches for two-input control</a></h3><p>Satya Prakash and Alfonso Jaramillo report compact bacterial combinatorial promoters for chemical AND switching in the Journal of Biological Engineering.</p>
42<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s13036-026-00728-8">Read more ↗</a></article>
43<article class="news-card" id="penafiel-school"><div class="card-meta"><span>Public engagement</span><time datetime="2026-05-20">20 May 2026</time></div><h3>Cyanobacteria in the classroom in Penafiel</h3><p>Filipe Pinto brought the possibilities of cyanobacterial biotechnology to students at Escola Secundária de Penafiel through the i3S Embaixadores da Ciência programme.</p>
44<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>Lecture: “As cianobactérias como plataformas (bio)tecnológicas”.</li></ul></details>
45</article>
46<article class="news-card" id="green-sustainable-chemistry-2026"><div class="card-meta"><span>Conference</span><time datetime="2026-05-18">18–20 May 2026</time></div><h3>Sharing electron-flow research in Dresden</h3><p>The i3S team presented its work on redirecting photosynthetic electron flow at the 10th Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference in Dresden, Germany.</p>
47<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>Oral presentation: “Rewiring Synechocystis’ photosynthetic electron flow to improve heterologous redox enzymes’ activity”.</li><li>B. Ribeiro, F. Pinto, M. Sobreira, M. Marquardt, M. Rocha, J. Gebauer and P. Tamagnini.</li></ul></details>
48</article>
49<article class="news-card" id="phrs-gaeta-2026"><div class="card-meta"><span>Conference</span><time datetime="2026-05-17">17–20 May 2026</time></div><h3><a href="https://phrs.entrat.eu/images/documents/Book_of_Abstracts.pdf">Three contributions at PHRS 13 in Gaeta</a></h3><p>CNR researchers shared work on photosynthetic hydrogen production at the 13th International Conference on Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability in Gaeta, Italy.</p>
50<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>G. E. Lakatos and colleagues: chemical oxygen absorbers for direct photosynthetic hydrogen production by Synechocystis PCC6803.</li><li>F. Balestra and colleagues: how the light spectrum affects growth, hydrogen production and biomass composition.</li><li>Plenary lecture by G. Torzillo and colleagues: opportunities and challenges in photobiological hydrogen production with microalgae.</li></ul></details>
51<a class="text-link" href="https://phrs.entrat.eu/images/documents/B
51ook_of_Abstracts.pdf">Read more ↗</a></article>
52<article class="news-card" id="ijup-2026"><div class="card-meta"><span>Poster</span><time datetime="2026-05-06">6–8 May 2026</time></div><h3>Oxygen-consuming devices at IJUP26</h3><p>M. Mendes and colleagues presented a poster on oxygen-consuming devices for Synechocystis at the University of Porto’s Young Researchers Meeting.</p>
53<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>“Characterization of Oxygen-Consuming Devices for the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803”.</li><li>M. Mendes, B. Pires, F. Pinto, C. C. Pacheco and P. Tamagnini.</li></ul></details>
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55<article class="news-card" id="porto-electron-flow-2026"><div class="card-meta"><span>Research talk</span><time datetime="2026-04-09">9 April 2026</time></div><h3>Exploring streamlined photosynthetic electron flow</h3><p>M. Rocha presented the characterisation of Synechocystis mutants at the Jornadas de Biologia Molecular e Celular in Porto.</p>
56<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>“Characterization of Synechocystis mutants with streamlined photosynthetic electron flow”.</li></ul></details>
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58<article class="news-card" id="tamhyds-accessory-clusters"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2026-04-01">1 April 2026</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.5c00784">Probing the role of hydrogenase iron–sulfur clusters</a></h3><p>Conrad Schumann and colleagues examine how accessory iron–sulfur clusters influence the sensory hydrogenase TamHydS in a new Biochemistry paper.</p>
59<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.5c00784">Read more ↗</a></article>
60<article class="news-card" id="final-portfolio-meeting"><div class="card-meta"><span>Portfolio</span><time datetime="2026-03-28">28 March 2026</time></div><h3>PhotoSynH2 at the final Green Hydrogen Portfolio meeting</h3><p>Alfonso Jaramillo and Filipe Pinto represented PhotoSynH2 at the final EIC Green Hydrogen Portfolio meeting in Brussels, sharing progress with the other portfolio projects.</p>
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62<article class="news-card" id="scaling-renewable-fuels-2026"><div class="card-meta"><span>Conference</span><time datetime="2026-03-26">26–27 March 2026</time></div><h3><a href="https://eic.ec.europa.eu/events/scaling-renewable-fuels-and-chemicals-resilient-european-industry-scientific-creativity-innovation-2026-03-26_en">Connecting renewable-fuels research with European industry</a></h3><p>PhotoSynH2 joined the Brussels gathering on scaling renewable fuels and chemicals, connecting research teams with entrepreneurs, industry and policy specialists.</p>
63<a class="text-link" href="https://eic.ec.europa.eu/events/scaling-renewable-fuels-and-chemicals-resilient-european-industry-scientific-creativity-innovation-2026-03-26_en">Read more ↗</a></article>
64<article class="news-card" id="mcbiology-2026"><div class="card-meta"><span>Research talk</span><time datetime="2026-03-26">26–27 March 2026</time></div><h3>Engineering glycine betaine production</h3><p>M. Correia and colleagues shared strategies for improving glycine betaine production in Synechocystis at the 12th MCBiology Symposium in Porto.</p>
65<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>M. Correia, D. Rodrigues, P. Lamosa, C. C. Pacheco and P. Tamagnini.</li><li>Oral presentation: “Metabolic engineering to improve the production of the compatible solute glycine betaine in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803”.</li></ul></details>
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67<article class="news-card" id="and-promoter-preprint"><div class="card-meta"><span>Preprint</span><time datetime="2026-03-25">25 March 2026</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.25.714203">Two-input promoters on bioRxiv</a></h3><p>Satya Prakash and Alfonso Jaramillo shared their work on bacterial combinatorial promoters as a bioRxiv preprint. The study subsequently appeared in the Journal of Biological Engineering.</p>
68<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.25.714203">Read more ↗</a></article>
69<article class="news-card" id="physical-learning-preprint"><div class="card-meta"><span>Preprint</span><time datetime="2026-03-19">19 March 2026</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.18.712691">Physical learning in engineered bacteria</a></h3><p>Satya Prakash and colleagues released a bioRxiv preprint describing a genetically encoded local learning rule. This synthetic-biology study acknowledges PhotoSynH2 support.</p>
70<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.18.712691">Read more ↗</a></article>
71<article class="news-card" id="light-salinity-carotenoids"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2026-02-19">19 February 2026</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/md24020083">How light and salinity shape cyanobacterial biomass</a></h3><p>CNR researchers report the combined effects of light and marine salts on carotenoids and biomass composition in Synechocystis in Marine Drugs.</p>
72<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.3390/md24020083">Read more ↗</a></article>
73<article class="news-card" id="portfolio-communications"><div class="card-meta"><span>Portfolio</span><time datetime="2026-02-19">19 February 2026</time></div><h3>Connecting communication across the hydrogen portfolio</h3><p>Filipe Pinto worked with the portfolio’s communication managers on shared dissemination activities, organising the June 2025 meeting and contributing to four subsequent sessions.</p>
74<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>Online meetings: 23 June, 17 September, 26 November and 17 December 2025; 19 February 2026.</li></ul></details>
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76<article class="news-card" id="physical-computing-poster"><div class="card-meta"><span>Poster</span><time datetime="2026-01-18">18–23 January 2026</time></div><h3>
76<a href="https://zenodo.org/records/20237413">Physical learning at the Les Houches computing workshop</a></h3><p>A poster on physical learning in engineered bacteria was presented at the 2nd Conference on Computing with Physical Systems in Les Houches, France. The public Zenodo record acknowledges PhotoSynH2.</p>
77<a class="text-link" href="https://zenodo.org/records/20237413">Read more ↗</a></article>
78<article class="news-card" id="marine-salt-hydrogen"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2026-01-09">9 January 2026</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1654421">Growing and producing hydrogen in a marine salt medium</a></h3><p>G. E. Lakatos and colleagues report growth and hydrogen production by Synechocystis PCC 6803 in a marine salt medium in Frontiers in Marine Science.</p>
79<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1654421">Read more ↗</a></article>
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81<section class="news-year" id="year-2025"><h2>2025</h2><div class="news-grid">
82<article class="news-card" id="maia-students-lab-visit"><div class="card-meta"><span>Public engagement</span><time datetime="2025-12-12">12 December 2025</time></div><h3>Maia students visit the i3S laboratory</h3><p>Students from Escola Básica e Secundária do Levante da Maia visited i3S and heard Filipe Pinto’s talk on cyanobacteria as biotechnology platforms.</p>
83<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>Part of the Embaixadores da Ciência education programme.</li></ul></details>
84</article>
85<article class="news-card" id="microbiotec-2025"><div class="card-meta"><span>Posters</span><time datetime="2025-12-04">4–6 December 2025</time></div><h3>Salt tolerance and oxygen management at Microbiotec’25</h3><p>The i3S team presented two posters at the Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology in Ponta Delgada, Portugal.</p>
86<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>M. Correia, D. Rodrigues, P. Lamosa, C. C. Pacheco and P. Tamagnini: improving heterologous glycine betaine production in engineered Synechocystis.</li><li>B. Pires, F. Pinto, C. C. Pacheco, P. Lindblad and P. Tamagnini: synthetic devices to modulate intracellular oxygen levels.</li></ul></details>
87</article>
88<article class="news-card" id="hydrogenase-kinetics"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2025-11-25">25 November 2025</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5c02898">Revisiting how hydrogenase activity is measured</a></h3><p>An Analytical Chemistry study re-examines hydrogenase turnover rates and their dependence on pH and potential using europium-based solution assays.</p>
89<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5c02898">Read more ↗</a></article>
90<article class="news-card" id="efanor-school"><div class="card-meta"><span>Public engagement</span><time datetime="2025-11-24">24 November 2025</time></div><h3>Biotechnology with students in Matosinhos</h3><p>Filipe Pinto visited Colégio Efanor to discuss cyanobacteria as biotechnology platforms through the i3S Embaixadores da Ciência programme.</p>
91</article>
92<article class="news-card" id="catarina-santos-master"><div class="card-meta"><span>Training</span><time datetime="2025-11-21">21 November 2025</time></div><h3>A master’s thesis on cyanobacterial biohydrogen</h3><p>Catarina Daniela Pinto dos Santos completed “Engineering Synechocystis-based chassis envisaging biohydrogen production” in the Master in Cell and Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto.</p>
93</article>
94<article class="news-card" id="phdays-2025"><div class="card-meta"><span>Poster</span><time datetime="2025-10-02">2–3 October 2025</time></div><h3>Oxygen management at the 8th PhDays</h3><p>B. Pires and colleagues presented haemoglobin-based oxygen-consuming devices for Synechocystis at the 8th PhDays in Porto.</p>
95<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>B. Pires, F. Pinto, C. C. Pacheco, P. Lindblad and P. Tamagnini.</li><li>Poster: “Oxygen-consuming devices based on hemoglobins to modulate intracellular O2 levels in Synechocystis strains”.</li></ul></details>
96</article>
97<article class="news-card" id="elobio-interview"><div class="card-meta"><span>Portfolio</span><time datetime="2025-05-30">30 May 2025</time></div><h3>Contributing to the ELOBIO market study</h3><p>Filipe Pinto contributed an interview to ELOBIO’s market analysis, bringing PhotoSynH2’s perspective to the wider green-hydrogen portfolio.</p>
98</article>
99<article class="news-card" id="pint-of-science-porto"><div class="card-meta"><span>Public engagement</span><time datetime="2025-05-21">21 May 2025</time></div><h3>Cyanobacteria at Pint of Science in Porto</h3><p>Filipe Pinto took cyanobacterial biotechnology beyond the laboratory with a public talk at Pint of Science in Porto.</p>
100<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>“Cianobactérias: os pequenos super-heróis da sustentabilidade?”</li></ul></details>
101</article>
102<article class="news-card" id="biohydrogen-advances-review"><div class="card-meta"><span>Review</span><time datetime="2025-05-01">1 May 2025</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/en18092319">Advances and challenges in photosynthetic biohydrogen</a></h3><p>Cecilia Faraloni and colleagues review biological hydrogen production by photosynthetic microorganisms in Energies.</p>
103<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.3390/en18092319">Read more ↗</a></article>
104<article class="news-card" id="graz-invited-lecture"><div class="card-meta"><span>Invited lecture</span><time datetime="2025-04-23">23 April 2025</time></div><h3>Engineering Synechocystis for sustainability</h3><p>Filipe Pinto delivered an invited lecture at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology at Graz University of Technology, Austria, on a synthetic-biology approach to 
104sustainability.</p>
105</article>
106<article class="news-card" id="isobutene-enzyme-engineering"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2025-04-23">23 April 2025</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-025-02708-x">Enzyme engineering for light-driven isobutene production</a></h3><p>Conrad Schumann and colleagues report structure-guided engineering of α-ketoisocaproate dioxygenase in Synechocystis in Microbial Cell Factories.</p>
107<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-025-02708-x">Read more ↗</a></article>
108<article class="news-card" id="hydrogenase-universal-mechanism"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2025-04-16">16 April 2025</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cp00412h">Comparing hydrogenase catalytic mechanisms</a></h3><p>Moritz Senger and colleagues investigate hydrogen catalysis across different groups of [FeFe]-hydrogenases in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.</p>
109<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cp00412h">Read more ↗</a></article>
110<article class="news-card" id="eic-sunergy-roadmap"><div class="card-meta"><span>Portfolio</span><time datetime="2025-03-26">26–27 March 2025</time></div><h3><a href="https://eic.ec.europa.eu/document/download/79fda687-1919-4796-a1c0-12f6b3fb3a09_en?filename=Preliminary_Agenda_ScalabilityMeetsSustainability_Extended.pdf">Presenting PhotoSynH2’s roadmap in Brussels</a></h3><p>Alfonso Jaramillo presented PhotoSynH2 at the joint EIC–SUNERGY roadmapping event on renewable hydrogen, fuels and chemicals, bringing the project’s biological approach into discussion with the wider European solar-fuels community.</p>
111<a class="text-link" href="https://eic.ec.europa.eu/document/download/79fda687-1919-4796-a1c0-12f6b3fb3a09_en?filename=Preliminary_Agenda_ScalabilityMeetsSustainability_Extended.pdf">Read more ↗</a></article>
112<article class="news-card" id="third-green-hydrogen-portfolio"><div class="card-meta"><span>Portfolio</span><time datetime="2025-03-25">25 March 2025</time></div><h3><a href="https://anemel.eu/2025/03/31/anemel-meets-portfolio-partners-and-more-in-brussels/">Meeting the EIC Green Hydrogen portfolio</a></h3><p>PhotoSynH2 joined its sister projects in Brussels for the third EIC Green Hydrogen Portfolio meeting, exchanging research progress and discussing shared activities.</p>
113<a class="text-link" href="https://anemel.eu/2025/03/31/anemel-meets-portfolio-partners-and-more-in-brussels/">Read more ↗</a></article>
114<article class="news-card" id="hydrogen-outlook-review"><div class="card-meta"><span>Review</span><time datetime="2025-03-11">11 March 2025</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.4c04772">An outlook on biology-driven hydrogen</a></h3><p>Consortium researchers review lessons from algal photosynthesis and their application to cyanobacterial hydrogen production in Energy &amp; Fuels.</p>
115<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.4c04772">Read more ↗</a></article>
116<article class="news-card" id="tamagnini-ljubljana"><div class="card-meta"><span>Invited lecture</span><time datetime="2025-02-26">26 February 2025</time></div><h3><a href="https://fkkt.uni-lj.si/fileadmin/user_upload/obvestila/vabila/Vabilo-Tamagnini.pdf">Blue-green sustainability in Ljubljana</a></h3><p>Paula Tamagnini’s invited doctoral-programme lecture at the University of Ljubljana explored synthetic biology approaches to Synechocystis cell factories. The published abstract acknowledges PhotoSynH2.</p>
117<a class="text-link" href="https://fkkt.uni-lj.si/fileadmin/user_upload/obvestila/vabila/Vabilo-Tamagnini.pdf">Read more ↗</a></article>
118<article class="news-card" id="mcbiology-2025"><div class="card-meta"><span>Poster</span><time datetime="2025-02-20">20–21 February 2025</time></div><h3>Improving cyanobacterial glycine betaine production</h3><p>M. Correia and colleagues presented a poster on improving heterologous glycine betaine production in Synechocystis-based chassis at the 11th MCBiology Symposium in Porto.</p>
119<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>M. Correia, D. Rodrigues, P. Lamosa, C. C. Pacheco and P. Tamagnini.</li></ul></details>
120</article>
121<article class="news-card" id="hydrogenase-gain-of-function"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2025-01-27">27 January 2025</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c17364">Improving hydrogenase activity and oxygen tolerance</a></h3><p>A Journal of the American Chemical Society paper explores how changes to the protein scaffold influence hydrogenase activity and oxygen tolerance.</p>
122<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c17364">Read more ↗</a></article>
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124<section class="news-year" id="year-2024"><h2>2024</h2><div class="news-grid">
125<article class="news-card" id="dark-anaerobic-xanthophyll"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2024-11-08">8 November 2024</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12112264">Understanding light responses after anaerobic conditions</a></h3><p>Cecilia Faraloni, Eleftherios Touloupakis and Giuseppe Torzillo examine xanthophyll-cycle responses in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in Microorganisms.</p>
126<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12112264">Read more ↗</a></article>
127<article class="news-card" id="aisam-florence"><div class="card-meta"><span>Conference</span><time datetime="2024-10-16">16–18 October 2024</time></div><h3>Microalgal research at AISAM in Florence</h3><p>F. Balestra participated in the AISAM conference in Florence, connecting CNR’s work with the Italian microalgae research and applications community.</p>
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129<article class="news-card" id="summer-school-porto"><div class="card-meta"><span>Training</span><time datetime="2024-06-19">19–20 June 2024</time></div><h3><a href="../school2024/">Summer school in Porto</a></h3><p>The consortium’s international summer school at i3S combined lectures, practical training and exchange across the EIC Green Hydrogen portfolio.</p>
130<details class="event-details"><summary>Activity details</summary><ul><li>Stefano Canziani contributed an invited online talk on the regulatory framework for GMO cultivation.</li></ul></details>
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132<article class="news-card" id="t7-riboswitches"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2024-01-29">29 January 2024</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52049-9">Evolving RNA switches with T7 phages</a></h3><p>Eduardo Goicoechea Serrano, Carlos Blázquez-Bondia and Alfonso Jaramillo describe T7 phage-assisted evolution of riboswitches in Scientific Reports.</p>
133<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52049-9">Read more ↗</a></article>
134<article class="news-card" id="hydrogenase-kinetic-modelling"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2024-01-02">2 January 2024</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c10693">Modelling hydrogenase electrochemistry</a></h3><p>Andrea Fasano and colleagues analyse reversible and irreversible electrochemical responses of FeFe-hydrogenases in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.</p>
135<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c10693">Read more ↗</a></article>
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137<section class="news-year" id="year-2023"><h2>2023</h2><div class="news-grid">
138<article class="news-card" id="uppsala-consortium-2023"><div class="card-meta"><span>Consortium</span><time datetime="2023-10-12">12–13 October 2023</time></div><h3>Meeting in Uppsala</h3><p>The PhotoSynH2 consortium met in Uppsala, Sweden, for its month 12 meeting.</p>
139</article>
140<article class="news-card" id="scifest-2023"><div class="card-meta"><span>Public engagement</span><time datetime="2023-09-21">21–23 September 2023</time></div><h3><a href="https://www.scifest.se/?languageId=1">PhotoSynH2 at SciFest</a></h3><p>PhotoSynH2 participated in Uppsala University’s SciFest, engaging the public and high-school students with science. The festival recorded an estimated 6,200 visitors overall.</p>
141<a class="text-link" href="https://www.scifest.se/?languageId=1">Read more ↗</a></article>
142<article class="news-card" id="solar-bioreactors-review"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2023-09-19">19 September 2023</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-023-12733-8">Designing solar bioreactors for microalgae</a></h3><p>Jiří Masojídek and colleagues review solar bioreactors for industrial microalgal production in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.</p>
143<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-023-12733-8">Read more ↗</a></article>
144<article class="news-card" id="advanced-materials-2023"><div class="card-meta"><span>Portfolio</span><time datetime="2023-07-12">12 July 2023</time></div><h3>Exchanging perspectives on advanced materials</h3><p>PhotoSynH2 participated in an online meeting on advanced materials.</p>
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146<article class="news-card" id="hydrogenase-engineering-review"><div class="card-meta"><span>Review</span><time datetime="2023-07-12">12 July 2023</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1179607">Engineering hydrogenases in photosynthetic microorganisms</a></h3><p>Conrad Schumann and colleagues review concepts and engineering strategies for heterologous hydrogenase expression in Frontiers in Microbiology.</p>
147<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1179607">Read more ↗</a></article>
148<article class="news-card" id="desalination-workshop"><div class="card-meta"><span>Portfolio</span><time datetime="2023-06-08">8 June 2023</time></div><h3>Joining the EIC desalination workshop</h3><p>PhotoSynH2 participated in the EIC-organised Desalinization Workshop in Brussels.</p>
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150<article class="news-card" id="qsanger-publication"><div class="card-meta"><span>Publication</span><time datetime="2023-02-07">7 February 2023</time></div><h3><a href="https://doi.org/10.34133/bdr.0007">Quantifying genetic variants with qSanger</a></h3><p>Satya Prakash and colleagues present qSanger, a method for quantifying genetic variants in bacterial cultures using Sanger sequencing, in BioDesign Research.</p>
151<a class="text-link" href="https://doi.org/10.34133/bdr.0007">Read more ↗</a></article>
152<article class="news-card" id="rne-interview"><div class="card-meta"><span>In the media</span><time datetime="2023-01-14">14 January 2023</time></div><h3><a href="https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/a-hombros-de-gigantes/hombros-gigantes-hidrogeno-verde-partir-bacterias-modificadas-geneticamente-14-01-23/6774692/">Green hydrogen on Radio Nacional de España</a></h3><p>Alfonso Jaramillo discussed hydrogen production from genetically modified bacteria on the radio programme A hombros de gigantes.</p>
153<a class="text-link" href="https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/a-hombros-de-gigantes/hombros-gigantes-hidrogeno-verde-partir-bacterias-modificadas-geneticamente-14-01-23/6774692/">Read more ↗</a></article>
154<article class="news-card" id="la-voz-coverage"><div class="card-meta"><span>In the media</span><time datetime="2023-01-11">11 January 2023</time></div><h3><a href="https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/sociedad/2023/01/11/hidrogeno-verde-partir-agua-mar-fotosintesis-bacterias/0003_202301G11P24992.htm">Hydrogen from seawater and bacterial photosynthesis</a></h3><p>
154La Voz de Galicia covered PhotoSynH2’s approach to renewable hydrogen production.</p>
155<a class="text-link" href="https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/sociedad/2023/01/11/hidrogeno-verde-partir-agua-mar-fotosintesis-bacterias/0003_202301G11P24992.htm">Read more ↗</a></article>
156<article class="news-card" id="la-vanguardia-coverage"><div class="card-meta"><span>In the media</span><time datetime="2023-01-10">10 January 2023</time></div><h3><a href="https://www.europapress.es/comunitat-valenciana/innova-00214/noticia-csic-lidera-proyecto-europeo-obtener-hidrogeno-verde-partir-bacterias-20230110104427.html">PhotoSynH2 reaches the Spanish press</a></h3><p>Europa Press covered the launch of the CSIC-led project to obtain green hydrogen from bacteria. La Vanguardia also featured the project in its science coverage.</p>
157<a class="text-link" href="https://www.europapress.es/comunitat-valenciana/innova-00214/noticia-csic-lidera-proyecto-europeo-obtener-hidrogeno-verde-partir-bacterias-20230110104427.html">Read more ↗</a></article>
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159<section class="news-year" id="year-2022"><h2>2022</h2><div class="news-grid">
160<article class="news-card" id="phages-paris-2022"><div class="card-meta"><span>Research talk</span><time datetime="2022-10-11">11–13 October 2022</time></div><h3>Directed evolution at Phages in Paris</h3><p>Alfonso Jaramillo presented “Phage-assisted directed evolution of proteins and RNAs” at Phages in Paris 2022, Institut Pasteur.</p>
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162<article class="news-card" id="portfolio-kickoff-2022"><div class="card-meta"><span>Portfolio</span><time datetime="2022-10-10">10–11 October 2022</time></div><h3>Launching the Green Hydrogen Challenge portfolio</h3><p>CSIC participated in the kickoff of EIC Pathfinder Green Hydrogen Challenge portfolio activities in Brussels.</p>
163</article>
164<article class="news-card" id="project-kickoff-2022"><div class="card-meta"><span>Consortium</span><time datetime="2022-10-03">3–4 October 2022</time></div><h3>PhotoSynH2 begins in Valencia</h3><p>The consortium held its kickoff meeting at i2SysBio, CSIC, in Valencia, Spain.</p>
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167<section class="prose event-archive" id="further-activities"><h2>Further activities</h2>
168<h3>February 2025 – May 2026</h3>
169<p><strong>Scientific exchange in Telluride.</strong> Gustav Berggren gave an invited talk at “Redox Catalysis in Biology and Bioinspired Systems”, organised by the Telluride Science Research Center in Colorado, USA.</p>
170<p><strong>Opening research to public institutions.</strong> CNR-IBE in Sesto Fiorentino hosted visits by a member of the Agriculture Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and by the Deputy Mayor of Florence, presenting the institute’s research and its environmental applications.</p>
171<h3>Academic year 2024–2025</h3>
172<p><strong>Training the next generation of researchers.</strong> Three Biology degree projects at the University of Porto contributed to the consortium’s research:</p>
173<ul>
174<li>Marco António Ribeiro Sobreira studied electron redirection in <em>Synechocystis</em> mutants.</li>
175<li>Eduardo Macedo de Castro evaluated controlled expression of heterologous monooxygenases in <em>Synechocystis</em>.</li>
176<li>Inês Filipa Santos Alves investigated glycine betaine production by increasing the availability of its precursor, glycine.</li>
177</ul>
178<h3>2023</h3>
179<p><strong>Hydrogen Horizons in Tarragona.</strong> PhotoSynH2 took part in the EIC portfolio meeting and the Hydrogen Horizons 2023 workshop in Tarragona, Spain.</p></section>
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