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Home ❯ Team ❯ Antoni Planas Sauter, PhD

Antoni Planas Sauter, PhD

Head of GQBB Group - Professor - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona

Department of Bioengineering

Contact

antoni.planas@iqs.url.edu +34 932672025

Training

PhD in Chemical Engineering (IQS, 1987)
Degree in Chemical Engineering (IQS, 1982)
Degree in Biochemistry (UAB, 1987)
Postdoctoral fellow in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (University of California, Berkeley, 1988-1989)
 

Experience

Research Associate (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1990-1992)
Professor at IQS since 1993.
Visiting Professor: Univ. of California, Berkeley (1992) / University of Antioquia, Colombia (1997 and 2006) / INSA, Toulouse, France (2005) / Univ. of Connecticut, USA (2017-18).
Professor (2003-),
Head of the Bioengineering Department (2007-2018)
Head of the Biochemistry Laboratory (1993-)
Coordinator of the Biological Chemistry and Biotechnology Group (GQBB, 1999-)
President, Grupo Especializado de Hidratos de Carbono, Real Sociedad Española de Química (2021-)
Board member, Division of Chemistry in Life Sciences, European Chemical Society (EuChemS) (2020-)
Board member, European Carbohydrate Organization, Spanish representative (2015-)
President, European Carbohydrate Organization (2017-2019)
Elected academic fellow of the Reial Acadèmia de Cièncias i Arts de Barcelona (2019-)
Emyl Fischer Award 2013 by the European Carbohydrate Organization
 

Research lines

  • Protein engineering and enzymology of glycosidases, glycosyltransferases and carbohydrate esterases.
  • Therapeutic targets in infectious diseases
  • Biocatalysis: enzyme re-engineering, directed enzyme evolution
  • Genetic and metabolic engineering in bacteria, yeast and microalgae
  • Amyloid proteins in neurodegenerative diseases

 

Publications

Merit Orcid

Research group

GQBB – Biological and Biotechnological Chemistry

The GQBB group (Biological and Biotechnological Chemistry Group) conducts its activity in three main areas: identification and molecular analysis of proteins and enzymes, their use as therapeutic targets and design and applications of enzymes in biocatalysis and biotechnology in microorganisms.

Programs

Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry

With the IQS Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, you will become a professional who is at the forefront of the chemical industry and gain access to the best job opportunities in the sector.

Bachelor’s Degree in Biotechnology

Biotechnology studies at IQS focus on the areas of health, industry and research.

Master’s Degree in Bioengineering

This master’s degree will enable you to acquire highly-advanced knowledge in the different fields of biosciences, master cutting-edge biotechnology, and become thoroughly familiar with current trends in the use of biotechnology.

Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Sciences

The Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Sciences focuses on students acquiring knowledge in biosciences that enables them to apply research in the field of medicine.

Research projects

PaCosValor (Producción biotecnológica de oligosacaridos de quitosano con estructura definida como inmunoestimulantes)

Escalado y valorización dequitooligosacáridos parcialmente acetilados como nutracéuticos que estimulan el sistema inmunológico.
GQBB – Biological and Biotechnological Chemistry

GLYCO-ETN (Red Europea Plantas Biotecnológicas)

Preparacion de una Red Europea de Investigadores en glycobioquimica de glicanos de pared celular
GQBB – Biological and Biotechnological Chemistry

GLYCODESIGN (Ingenieria enzimática)

Ingeniería de proteínas e ingeniería metabólica de glicozimas para la producción de glicanos y glicoconjugados bioactivos orientados a aplicaciones biomédicas
GQBB – Biological and Biotechnological Chemistry

NANO3BIO (Red internacional de producción biotecnológica de polisacáridos)

Consorcio europeo formado por universidades, grandes empresas y PYMES parar desarrollar sistemas de producción biotecnológica de quitosanos nanoformulados
GQBB – Biological and Biotechnological Chemistry

Glycoengin (Engineered Glycozymes in biocatalysis, metabolic engineering and bio-orthogonal chemical biology)

The general objective of the project is the application of Carbohydrate Active Enzymes (CAZymes), namely glycosidases glycosyltransferases and polysaccharide deacetylases, to the production of specialty oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates by both biocatalysis and metabolic engineering approaches, grounded on the engineering of substrate specificity (rational and by directed evolution) to achieve the synthetic application goals.
GQBB – Biological and Biotechnological Chemistry