Vincent Bulone
From Glycoscience
Principal Investigator (PI): Prof. Vincent Bulone
Date of birth: 23 May 1967
Citizenship: French
Office phone: +46 (0)8 5537 8841
Administrator (Marlene Johnsson): +46 (0)8 5537 8446
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Research interests :: Curriculum Vitae :: Key publications :: All publications :: Current personnel :: Main collaborators :: Teaching
Research interests
- Biosynthesis of plant and "fungal" (Oomycete) cell wall polysaccharides: biochemical and biophysical approaches for the study of membrane-bound complexes with glycosyltransferase activity and characterization of the corresponding polysaccharides, with particular emphasis on cellulose, (1,3)-beta-D-glucan and chitin biosynthesis.
- Metabolic engineering of plant and microbial polysaccharide biosynthetic pathways.
- Protein/lipid interactions.
- Engineering and characterization of cellulose-based composites.
- Applied aspects of carbohydrate biosynthetic pathways, including aspects relevant to the bioenergy, biomaterials, anti-oomycete drugs and herbicides areas.
Curriculum Vitae
| 2009- | Director of the Swedish Centre for Biomimetic Fibre Engineering (Biomime) |
| 2008- | Head of the Division of Glycoscience |
| 2008-2009 | Deputy Director of Biomime |
| 2007- | Professor in Plant Glycobiology, KTH Biotechnology, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2006-2007 | Guest Professor in Plant Glycobiology, KTH Biotechnology, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2001-2006 | Professor in Biochemistry, Univ. of Lyon/UMR CNRS 5246, France |
| 1996-2001 | Associate Professor in Biochemistry, Univ. of Grenoble/CERMAV CNRS, France |
| 1995-1996 | Post-doc, Dept of Pharmacy (with Prof. Smestad-Paulsen), Oslo Univ., Norway |
| 1993-1995 | Post-doc, Dept of Biochemistry (with Prof. Stone), Melbourne, Australia |
Academic degrees
| 1999 | "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" ~ Docent (Assoc. Prof.) in Biology and Biochemistry, Univ. of Grenoble, France |
| 1992 | PhD in Biochemistry, Univ. of Lyon, France |
| 1989 | Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies in Differentiation, Genetics and Immunology (5th year Univ. degree), Univ. of Lyon, France |
| 1988 | Master of Science (MSc) in Biotechnology, Univ. of Lyon, France |
| 1987 | Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Biochemistry, Univ. of Lyon, France |
Key publications
- Fugelstad J, Bouzenzana J, Djerbi S, Guerriero G, Ezcurra I, Teeri TT, Arvestad L, Bulone V (2009) Identification of the cellulose synthase genes from the Oomycete Saprolegnia monoica and effect of cellulose synthesis inhibitors on gene expression and enzyme activity.
Fungal Genet. Biol. 46: 759-767.
- Bessueille L, Sindt N, Guichardant M, Djerbi S, Teeri TT, Bulone V (2009) Plasma membrane microdomains from hybrid aspen cells are involved in cell wall polysaccharide biosynthesis.
Biochem. J. 420: 93-103.
- Zhou Q, Malm E, Nilsson H, Larsson PT, Iversen T, Berglund LA, Bulone V (2009) Nanostructured biocomposites based on bacterial cellulosic nanofibers compartmentalized by a soft hydroxyethylcellulose matrix coating.
Soft Matter 5: 4124-4130.
- Pelosi L, Imai T, Chanzy H, Heux L, Buhler E, Bulone V (2003) Structural and morphological diversity of (1-3)-beta-D-glucans synthesized in vitro by enzymes from Saprolegnia monoica. Comparison with a corresponding in vitro product from blackberry (Rubus fruticosus).
Biochemistry 42: 6264-6274.
- Lai Kee Him J, Chanzy H, Mueller M, Putaux JL, Imai T, Bulone V (2002) In vitro versus in vivo cellulose microfibrils from plant primary wall synthases: structural differences.
J. Biol. Chem. 277: 36931-36939.
Current personnel
Post-graduate students
 Christian Brown |
 Stefan Klinter |
 Felicia Leijon |
 Lijun Liang |
 Erik Malm |
 Elzbieta Rzeszutek |
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Post-doctoral scientists
 Osei Ampomah |
 Sara Diaz |
 Cortwa Hooijmaijers |
 Hugo Melida |
 Vaibhav Srivastava |
 Gustav Sundqvist |
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Senior Researchers
 Sophia Ekengren |
 Laura Grenville-Briggs |
 Francisco Vilaplana |
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Technical Associate
 Annie Inman |
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Present and Recent Visiting scientists
 Vladimir Sierra Sandoval |
 Marcia Saraiva |
 Arnaud Bottin |
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Undergraduate students
 Petra Kock Appelgren |
Recently graduated PhD students
 Johanna Fugelstad |
Main collaborators
International
- Members of the EU-funded RENEWALL FP7 project, with particular interaction with:
- Prof. Wout Boerjan (VIB, Gent, belgium)
- Dr. Paul Dupree (Cambridge Univ., UK)
- Drs Herman Höfte and Martine Gonneau (INRA Versailles, France)
- Prof. Björn Sundberg (Umeå Plant Science Center, Sweden)
- Prof. Simon Turner (Manchester Univ., UK)
- Prof. Brian Ellis (UBC, Vancouver, Canada) and other members of the Working on Walls program
- Dr van West (Univ. of Aberdeen, UK) and other members of the EU-funded Initial Training Network SAPRO
- Dr Arnaud Bottin, Univ. of Toulouse, France
- Prof. Taku Demura, Nara Institute of Science and technology, Japan
- Prof. Geoff Fincher, Univ. of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
- Prof. Howard Judelson, Univ. of California-Riverside, USA
- Prof. Junji Sugiyama, Univ. of Kyoto, Japan
National
- Members of the Biomime Centre, with particular interaction with:
- Prof. Lars Berglund (Fiber and Polymer Chemistry, KTH)
- Drs Tomas Larsson and Tommy Iversen (Innventia)
- Prof. Mark Rutland and Dr Magnus Johnson (Surface Chemistry, KTH)
- Prof. Björn Sundberg (Umeå Plant Science Centre)
- Dr Qi Zhou (KTH Biotechnology, Glycoscience)
- Prof. Birgitta Bergman and Dr Sophia Ekengren (Department of Botany, Stockholm Univ.)
- Prof. Per Ljungdahl (Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm Univ.)
- Dr Lena Mäler (Department of Biochemistry, Stockholm Univ.)
Teaching
- BB2450 The Cell Factory, 7.5 credits, organizer and main lecturer (beginning fall 2010) [1]
- BB2420 - Glycobiology and Carbohydrate Technology, 7.5 credits, lecturer
- BB2330 Plant Biotechnology, 7.5 credits, lecturer [2]
- Plant Fiber Resources, Biomime Graduate School, 4.5 credits, lecturer
