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LORENZO FAVARO

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Position

Professore Associato

Structure

Dipartimento di Agronomia Animali Alimenti Risorse Naturali e Ambiente - DAFNAE

Address

VIALE DELL'UNIVERSITA', 16 - LEGNARO PD

Telephone

0498272800

E-mail

lorenzo.favaro@unipd.it

Notices

Office hours

Teachings

  • APPLIED BIOTECHNOLOGIES FOR AGRI-FOOD AND VETERINARY MICROORGANISMS, AA 2025 (SCP6076460)

  • APPLIED FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY, AA 2025 (AVP9086123)

  • AGRICULTURAL MICROBIOLOGY , AA 2025 (AVP7077961)

  • GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, AA 2025 (AG01106098)

  • APPLIED BIOTECHNOLOGIES FOR AGRI-FOOD AND VETERINARY MICROORGANISMS, AA 2024 (SCP6076460)

  • APPLIED FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY, AA 2024 (AVP9086123)

  • AGRICULTURAL MICROBIOLOGY , AA 2024 (AVP7077961)

  • GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, AA 2024 (AG01106098)

Publications

Selected publications in the last 5 years (2017-2021):

25. Favaro L., Cagnin L., Basaglia M., Pizzocchero V., van Zyl W.H., Casella S. (2017). Production of bioethanol from multiple waste streams of rice milling. Bioresource Technology 244: 151-159.

26. Alibardi L., Green K., Favaro L., Vale P., Soares A., Cartmell E., Bajon Fernandez Y. (2017). Performance and stability of sewage sludge digestion under CO2 enrichment: a pilot study. Bioresource Technology, 245: 581-589.

27. Abbondanzi F., Biscaro G., Carvalho G., Favaro L., Lemos P., Paglione M., Samorì C., Torri C. (2017). Fast method for the determination of short-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates (scl-PHAs) in bacterial samples by In Vial-Thermolysis (IVT). New Biotechnology 39: 29-35.

30. Gamero J.E.R., Favaro L., Pizzocchero V., Lomolino G., Basaglia M., Casella S (2018). Nuclease expression in efficient polyhydroxyalkanoates-producing bacteria could yield cost reduction during downstream processing. Bioresource Technology 261: 176-181.

33. Favaro L., Basaglia M., Casella S. (2019). Improving polyhydroxyalkanoate production from inexpensive carbon sources by genetic approaches: a review. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 13(1): 208-227.

34. Cagnin L., Favaro L., Gronchi N., Rose S.H., Basaglia M., van Zyl W.H., Casella S. (2019). Comparing laboratory and industrial yeast platforms for the direct conversion of cellobiose into ethanol under simulated industrial conditions. FEMS Yeast Research 19 (2).

35. Favaro L., Jansen T., van Zyl W.H (2019). Exploring industrial and natural Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for the bio-based economy from biomass: the case of bioethanol. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology 39(6): 800-816.

37. Furtado D.N., Favaro L., Nero L.A., Gombossy de Melo Franco B.D, Todorov S.D. (2019). Bacteriocin production by Enterococcus hirae DF105Mi isolated from Brazilian goat milk. Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins 11(4):1391-1402.

38. Cripwell R., Rose S.H., Favaro L., van Zyl W.H. (2019). Construction of industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for the efficient consolidated bioprocessing of raw starch. Biotechnology for Biofuels 12:201.

39. Myburgh M. W., Cripwell R, Favaro L., van Zyl W.H. (2019). Application of industrial amylolytic yeast strains for the production of bioethanol from broken rice. Bioresource Technology 294:122222.

40. Favaro L., Cagnin L., Corte L., Roscini L., De Pascale F., Treu L., Campanaro S., Basaglia M., van Zyl W.H, Casella S., Cardinali G. (2019). Metabolomic alterations do not induce metabolic burden in the industrial yeast M2n[pBKD2-Pccbgl1]-C1 engineered by multiple δ-integration of a fungal β-glucosidase gene. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 7:376.

41. Cripwell R. A., Favaro L., Viljoen-Bloom M., van Zyl W. H. (2020). Consolidated bioprocessing of raw starch to ethanol by Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Achievements and challenges. Biotechnology Advances, 107579.

42. Basaglia M., Favaro L., Torri C., Casella S. (2021). Is pyrolysis bio-oil prone to microbial conversion into added-value products?. Renewable Energy, 163, 783-791.

Thesis proposals

Master theses on the microbial valorization of organic waste streams into valuable products (bioethanol, biohydrogen, biogas, bioplastics) are available and will involved multidiscipliany approaches considering basic microbiology, microbial ecology, genetic engineering and genome editing.
Few on-going research projects deal with:

- second generation bioethanol production from organic waste streams (ie, rice and potato by-products, sugarcane bagasse) by engineered yeast strains

-biogas production from organic waste streams and organic fraction of municipal solid waste

-polyhydroxyalkanoates production from organic waste streams (ie, rice and potato by-products) by selected wild-type and engineered bacteria