Podkarpackie Innovation Center (PCI) organized a conference summarizing the first call for applications for projects under the grant program for R&D works of scientific units.
The conference summed up the first call for R&D grant projects. The Marshal of the Voivodship handed symbolic "grants" to representatives of scientific teams whose projects were assessed as the best and received a positive decision on co-financing.
Two grants will be carried-out at the Department of Complex Systems:
F3_37: Remote control of the manufacturing process based on the Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) method using ICT infrastructure taking into account distributed system architecture
Principal Investigator PhD. Marek Bolanowski
The project is interdisciplinary and is associated with the creation of complex production environments, including research in the area of development and verification of mechanisms for integration and synchronization of individual tasks within the remote production process, taking into account the problems and threats to the distributed technological process in an environment with heterogeneous ownership structure.
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F3_105: Oxford Nanopore technology: optimization of enzymes and analysis of genomic data for commercial applications
Principal Investigator, PhD. Dominik Strzałka
The goal of the project is to achieve a form that allows potential commercialization of basic and industrial research on 4th generation sequencing technology - Oxford Nanopore at PRz. This technology is an innovative solution in the field of protein analysis and their mutation having many practical applications in the area of: rapid identification of pathogens, virus monitoring, analysis of the state of the environment, monitoring of the state of food, analysis of antibiotic resistance, genetic mutation testing leading to cancer. Particularly useful is the MinION solution that allows protein sequencing through a mobile USB device. The project provides for basic research based on a series of experiments on the industrial optimization of enzymes produced by Bacillus bacteria (proteases, amylases, lipases, chitinases, pectinases, as well as compounds with bactericidal and antifungal activity). In the field of Oxford Nanopore technology, cooperation with CeNT UW will be carried out. During the implementation of the project, experimental data will be collected and they will serve as motivation to finalize the bioinformatic server, which will automatically process data from the MinION sequencer, eliminating the need for bioinformatic skills by the person performing the sequencing (e.g. biologist). The progress of server development is possible thanks to the alpha version of the solution proposed by CeNT UW.
The project will combine three research areas: biotechnology (genetics), bioinformatics and computer engineering. The results of the work will be published in two articles (bioinformatics, biotechnology). Both areas of the project (i.e. new enzymes and server) may be commercialized in the future.
During the conference, the plans of the Podkarpackie Innovation Center regarding further grant programs were also presented. A discussion panel on cooperation between science and business was also held and an example of successful implementation of scientific knowledge in business practice (success story) was presented.
