Research in biotechnology aims to develop new processes for the manufacturing of existing or new products based on micro-organisms, plants or animals.

The technology is used to produce pharmaceuticals, such as antibiotics and anti-cancer compounds, food products and animal feed. Other examples of biotechnological products are amino acids, food flavours, and biofuel.

Our department has an experienced staff and modern, well-equipped laboratories. The department’s main activities are bioprospecting (search) for, among others, pharmaceuticals from the sea, fermentation processes, environmental microbiology, gene technology, food microbiology and biochemistry, systems biology, synthetic biology, and advanced mass spectrometry (MS)-based analyses.

You will find contact persons in the menu on the left under their core competence, as well as below (team leaders).

Biomedicine, bioprospecting and systems biology
Håvard Sletta, phone +47 930 86 028

Recombinant expression and metabolic engineering
Trygve Brautaset, phone +47 982 83 977

Analyses and high throughput screening
Kolbjørn Zahlsen, phone +47 986 93 199

Energy, food and health
Nils Dyrset, phone +47 930 86 022

Laboratories

Publicity

Opening of new fermentation laboratory.

Friday June 4th the Department of Biotechnology opened their new fermentation laboratory. The laboratory consists of 8 fully equipped cultivation reactors with very good possibilities for process control and monitoring. What separates this laboratory from the rest of the departments fermentation equipment is the option of doing controlled experiments/tests in very small cultivation volumes (down to 0.2 l). The laboratory will be used for both batch and continuous cultivation experiments.

Ysting - Husbakterier skal gi bedre ost (Norwegian)

Medisin fra havet (Norwegian)

Svinaktig god ide (Norwegian)
Good news for pigs (English)



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