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LORENZO FAVARO
Position
Professore Associato
Address
VIALE DELL'UNIVERSITA', 16 - LEGNARO PD
Telephone
0498272800
Lorenzo Favaro, born on August 27th 1982, in 2006, he graduated cum laude in Agricultural Sciences (Padova University), discussing an experimental thesis on the multifunctional role of nirK, nitrite reductase of Rhizobium sullae. After the graduation, he won a three years Ph.D. grant within a national program for the conversion of cheap agricultural and industrial by-products into bioethanol. In 2010, he obtained the Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology. His current position is associate professor at the DAFNAE Dept. of University of Padova, where he acts as lecturer in “General Microbiology”, "Agricultural Microbiology" and "Microbial biotechnologies".
In 2008, he spent his first research stage (7 months) at Microbiology Department of Stellenbosch University (Southafrica), supporting the start-up of a bilateral collaboration with Padova University.
Since 2007, he participated in several international, national and regional research projects on the energetic valorization of low-cost agricultural and industrial residues. His main research interests include second generation bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass together with bio-hydrogen and bioplastics production from organic waste streams
In 2009 and 2012, he was awarded by the Italian Society of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Microbiology (SIMTREA) and 2013 and 2015 by FEMS (Federation of European Microbiology Societies).
Since 2012, he contributed to 58 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and a PCT patent together with Stellenbosch University on the engineering of yeast strains to hydrolyze raw starch and ferment the resulting sugars to ethanol (Biofuel production. PCT/WO/2011/128712).
Notices
Office hours
Wednesday from 9:00 to 12:00
at Ufficio del Docente
Previo accordo via e-mail
Teachings
- AGRICULTURAL MICROBIOLOGY , AA 2024 (AVP7077961)
- GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, AA 2024 (AG01106098)
- APPLIED BIOTECHNOLOGIES FOR AGRI-FOOD AND VETERINARY MICROORGANISMS, AA 2023 (SCP6076460)
- APPLIED FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY, AA 2023 (AVP9086123)
- AGRICULTURAL MICROBIOLOGY , AA 2023 (AVP7077961)
- GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, AA 2023 (AG01106098)
- APPLIED FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY, AA 2022 (AVP9086123)
- GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, AA 2022 (AG01106098)
- GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, AA 2021 (AG01106098)
- GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, AA 2020 (AG01106098)
- GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, AA 2020 (AG01106098)
- GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, AA 2019 (AG01106098)
- GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, AA 2018 (AG01106098)
- GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, AA 2017 (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.
Research Area
Development of novel processes to valorize organic waste streams from agricultural and industrial activities into valuable products (such as biogas, bioethanol and biopolymers) through wild type or genetically modified microbes.
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
