Biosurfactants

Gloria Soberón-Chávez is a Professor and Senior Researcher at the Biomedical Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. She obtained her PhD in 1986 from UNAM Basic Biomedical Research Program and has been a researcher in this university ever since, working with different bacterial models such as Rhizobium etli, Azotobacter vinelandii and P. aeruginosa among others. Dr. Soberón-Chávez has around ninety publications in peer reviewed scientific journals such as Proceeding of the National Academy Science USA, Trends in Microbiology, Molecular Microbiology, Journal of Bacteriology, BMC-Genomics, and Microbial Biotechnology.

Section I Introduction 1. Microbial bio-based amphiphiles (biosurfactants): General aspects on critical micelle concentration, surface tension, and phase behavior 2. New insights in biosurfactants Research

Section II Novel approaches for the production and use of biosurfactants 3. Bioinspired glycolipids: Metals interactions and aqueous-source metal recovery technologies 4. Rhamnolipids—Has the promise come true? 5. Biosurfactants as food additives: New trends and applications 6. Novel approaches in the use of biosurfactants in the oil industry and environmental remediation 7. Biosurfactants produced from corn steep liquor and other nonconventional sources: Their application in different industries

Section III Genetic manipulation and the production of novel biosurfactants 8. Metabolic and process engineering on the edge—Rhamnolipids are a true challenge: A review 9. Improved production of novel (bola) glycolipid biosurfactants with the yeast Starmerella bombicola through an integrative approach combining genetic engineering and multiomics analyses 10. Increasing the natural biodiversity of microbial lipopeptides using a synthetic biology approach

Section IV Use of alternative strategies for biosurfactants production 11. Synthetic approaches to production of rhamnolipid and related glycolipids 12. The use of biocatalysis for biosurfactant production

Section V Concluding remarks 13. Challenges and prospects for microbial biosurfactant research