Bioprocessing potential from indigenous cuban white-rot fungi

提议在哈瓦那举办一个讲习班，让加拿大科学家与古巴科学家会面，讨论对土生白腐菌（担子菌）漆酶和锰过氧化物酶活性的调查结果。预计这些真菌中的一些将具有具有高活性和氧化还原电位的新酶，足以用于农业，纸浆和造纸工业以及生物修复等生物技术应用。来自圭尔夫大学和蒙特利尔大学以及阿尔伯塔研究委员会的六名加拿大人将飞往哈瓦那，与他们的古巴同事会面。加拿大人将在研讨会前举行一次会议，以分享有关专业知识、贡献潜力以及每个本国机构的基础设施和研究潜力的信息。在此之后，加拿大和古巴与会者将在三天内会晤。研讨会的重点将是讨论哈瓦那大学微生物系Miguel Ramos-Leal博士的研究，他将介绍古巴白腐菌和相关酶的数据，整个小组将讨论研究和合作的前景和战略。该小组将访问古巴实验室，并考虑一些问题，包括促进合作研究计划的短期和长期需求，导致技术创新的潜在实验方法的适当时机，以及适当的团队成员责任。在讲习班结束之前，将分发和讨论会议摘要草案及其调查结果，并在必要时获得更多资料。在与古巴人会晤之后，加拿大人将再举行一天的会议，最后确定在加拿大进行研究和合作的可能性，包括对商业潜力的分析，在此期间将制定具体的调查、教育交流和资助建议计划。

A workshop in Havana is proposed for Canadian scientists to meet with Cuban scientists to discuss the results of a survey of indigenous white-rot fungi (Basidiomycetes) for laccase and manganese peroxidase activities. It is anticipated that some of these fungi will have novel enzymes with high activities and redox potentials sufficient for biotech applications in, for example, agriculture, the pulp and paper industry and bioremediation. Six Canadians from the Universities of Guelph and Montreal and from the Alberta Research Council will fly to Havana for meetings with their Cuban colleagues. A pre-workshop meeting among the Canadians will be held to share information on expertise, potential for contribution(s), and about the infrastructure and research potential at each home institution. Following this, Canadian and Cuban participants will meet over three days. The focus of the workshop will be to discuss the research of Dr. Miguel Ramos-Leal of the Microbiology Department at the University of Havana, who will present data on Cuban white-rot fungi and associated enzymes, and the entire group will discuss prospects and strategies for research and collaboration. The group will visit the Cuban laboratories, and consider issues including short- and long- term needs to facilitate a collaborative research program, appropriate timing of potential experimental approaches leading to technological innovations, and appropriate team-member responsibilities. Before the workshop concludes, a draft summary of the meeting and its findings will be circulated and discussed, and additional information will be obtained if necessary.  Following the meeting with the Cubans, the Canadians will meet for one more day to finalize decisions on the potential for research and collaboration back in Canada, including an analysis of commercial potential, during which specific plans for investigation, educational exchanges and funding proposals will be developed.