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  • TFTAK'i teadusnäitus Eesti Põllumajandusmuuseumis Olete oodatud näitusele"Biotehnoloogia ja tervislik toit meie laual"Näitus valmis koostöös Eesti Põllumajandusmuuseumi ning Toidu- ja Fermentatsioonitehnoloogia Arenduskeskuse (TFTAK) vahel.Autorid (TFTAK):     Kaspar Kevvai - "Pärmid biotehnoloogias"     Tiina Klesment - "Mis toimub jäätises?"     Tiina Krisciunaite - "Juust - tippteaduse uurimisobjekt"     Anna Mihhalevski - "Tänapäevane leivateadus"     Ranno Nahku - "Uudsete rakkude disain - mis see on?"     Ingrid Sumeri - "Kasulikud bakterid meie kõhus"Korraldus: Mare Viiralt, Eesti PõllumajandusmuuseumKujundus:  Maarika Tang, Eesti Põllumajandusmuuseum              Eesti Põllumajandusmuuseum (www.epm.ee) asub Tartust kolme kilomeetri kaugusel Ülenurme mõisakompleksis. Teadusnäitus on avatud oktoobrini (k.a.) 2012. Kaas võtta kõik sõbrad ja sugulased.Näituse avamine 17. veebruaril 2012, ühed autoritest - Ranno Nahku ja Kaspar KevvaiNäituse avamine 17. veebruaril 2012, külalised ekspositsioonisaalisNäituse avapäev, 17. veebruar 2012, mõeldud on väiksematele teadushuvilistele - vilditud piimhappebakterid
    Posted Feb 22, 2012, 5:59 AM by Tiia Reede
  • Paper published in Biotechnology Journal YAP1 over-expression in S. cerevisiae enhances glutathione accumulation at its biosynthesis and substrate availability levelsOrumets K, Kevvai K, Nisamedtinov I, Tamm T, Paalme T. YAP1 over-expression in S. cerevisiae enhances glutathione accumulation at its biosynthesis and substrate availability levels. Biotechnol J. 2011 Oct 18. doi: 10.1002/biot.201100363. [Epub ahead of print]AbstractMicrobiological production of glutathione using genetically engineered yeast strains has a potential to satisfy the increasing industrial demand of this tripeptide. In the present work accumulation of glutathione in response to YAP1 over-expression in S. cerevisiae was studied. The over-expression resulted in intracellular glutathione level over two times higher than in the parent strain. Transcript analyses revealed that, in addition to ...
    Posted Nov 1, 2011, 3:43 AM by Mart Objartel
  • Ingrid Sumeri PhD Thesis „The Study of Probiotic Bacteria in Human Gastrointestinal Tract Simulator” Defended: June, 22-th, 2011 Supervisor: Prof. Toomas Paalme (Tallinn University of Technology).Opponents: Prof. Marika Mikelsaar (University of Tartu);Dr. Stefan Roos (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
    Posted Sep 28, 2011, 4:27 AM by Mart Objartel
  • Researchers' Night 2011 CCFFT is participating in Researchers' Night 2011. Our doors are open at 23th of September form 18:00 to 20:00. Lab tours will take place in every 20 minutes and give an overview about the methods and hardware that are necessary for studying biotechnologically interesting microorganisms. In addition, the process of ice-cream production will be demonstrated with the possibility to taste the ice-cream!  Please note that the number of participants is limited, for registration please call 666 00 66 or 55 937 339.  
    Posted Sep 21, 2011, 1:25 AM by Ranno Nahku
  • Papers published in 'BMC Systems Biology' & 'Microbiology' BMC Systems Biology: Decrease of energy spilling in Escherichia coli continuous cultures with rising specific growth rate and carbon wastingMicrobiology: Stock culture heterogeneity rather than new mutational variation complicates short-term cell physiology studies of Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 in continuous culture
    Posted Jul 6, 2011, 10:26 AM by Mart Objartel
  • CCFFT "Project 2.2&2.3 group" joint seminar with Centre of Studies and Technical Research of Gipuzkoa "Bioinformatics group" on "Omics data integration into genome-scale metabolic models" took place on 17.-20.05.2011 The first joint seminar and meeting on "Omics data integration into genomic-scale metabolic models" took place in CCFFT on 17.-20.05.2011 between CCFFT "Project 2.2&2.3 group" and Centre of Studies and Technical Research of Gipuzkoa (CEIT) "Bioinformatics group". The four days were full of interesting presentations and discussion about the participants current and future research led by Professor Raivo Vilu (CCFFT) and Francsisco Planes, PhD (CEIT). The fruitful discussions and enjoyable brainstorming resulted in numerous ideas for future collaboration which will hopefully soon result in joint publications.We would like to thank Fransisco Planes and PhD student Jon Pey from CEIT for visiting us and we hope for a very successful future collaboration.
    Posted May 23, 2011, 3:39 AM by Kaspar Valgepea
  • CCFFT hosted a successful lecture course "Microbial Growth and Physiology" by Professor Thomas Egli CCFFT hosted an intensive two-day lecture course "Microbial Growth and Physiology" on 10.-11.05.2011 lectured by Professor Thomas Egli from Switzerland (EAWAG, ETH). The course was the first in the "Systems Biology Advanced Lecture Course" series which will hopefully produce at least one or two lecture courses in CCFFT per year considering various topics of systems biology. This course covered a wide array of topics: ranging from fundamental principles in microbial physiology, environmental microbiology, characteristics of batch and continuous cultures, microbial stress studies to -omics data analysis from the literature. In addition to very informative lectures, many interesting and fruitful discussions emerged among the participants and the lecturer.In total, we had 27 participants from three countries ...
    Posted May 23, 2011, 3:40 AM by Kaspar Valgepea
  • Second Fermentation Course ETT330 Ended A second fermentation technology course in co-operation of CCFFT and University of Helsinki has ended successfully. This year eight students from all over the globe participated in this rather intensive 'hands on' course. Three model organisms (L. lactis, S. cerevisiae, E. coli) were cultivated in classical fermentation schemes (batch, fed-batch, continuous). The coursework was carried out in Helsinki and Tallinn. Toomas, Kaspar and Sten would like to thank the students for all their effort, and we hope the knowledge obtained will be useful for them in their following work.
    Posted May 12, 2011, 1:28 AM by Kaspar Kevvai
  • Paper published in International Dairy Journal The effect of hydrogen peroxide on the growth of thermophilic lactic starter and acid gelation of UHT milk
    Posted Mar 7, 2011, 10:30 PM by Mart Objartel
  • Paper published in Microbial Cell Factories Multi-omics approach to study the growth efficiency and amino acid metabolism in Lactococcus lactis at various specific growth rates
    Posted Mar 3, 2011, 4:29 AM by Mart Objartel
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Contents

  1. 1 Mission
  2. 2 Vision
Competence Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies (CCFFT) was founded on June 15th 2004 by Tallinn University of Technology and six partner companies.



CCFFT offers extensive knowledge both in food and fermentation science. The technological base of CCFFT is regarded contemporary and sufficient for carrying out research in the food and fermentation technology field.

The computer controlled systems of the CCFFT allow to carry out even the most complex cultivation procedures, gastrointestinal simulations etc. as well as physical and chemical analysis of food- and bioproducts.
One of the main topics of the R&D activities in CCFFT is systems biology, which involves development of new cultivation techniques, simultaneously with cell physiological models, in which our center has accumulated a remarkable competence.


CCFFT research projects are co-funded by Enterprise Estonia and by our customer companies. This gives our clients a unique opportunity to do exhaustive R&D studies with distributed costs.

CCFFT solutions are custom-made for each of our client:

  • advanced microorganism cultivation technologies
  • systems biology of microorganisms
  • food stability, quality and healthiness
  • modeling human gastrointestinal tract


Mission

Our mission is to carry out the fundamental research in food and fermentation technology.

Competence Center of Fermentation and Food Technologies (CCFFT/Estonia) is applying and developing modern methods based on physics, chemistry and post-genomic process design to improve food quality, functionality and storage properties of several food products, taking into account detailed molecular/physiological properties of raw materials, additives, starters etc.

Understanding, describing cell physiology and reproducing metabolism is

the major challenge in fermentation disciplines. CCFFT is using advanced cultivation methods in conjunction with developing dynamic cell models to build biotechnologically useful cells. We hope to achieve the highest competence in this area.

Concurrently with the latter, our aim is to create a modern laboratory infrastructure and educating a highly competent R&D team by exploiting efficiently the know-how accumulating in Tallinn University of Technology, partner enterprises and CCFFT.


Vision

Competence Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies (CCFFT) is aiming for building a strong combination between fermentation and food technologies with modeling at molecular level.

A goal for CCFFT is to routinely carry out high-throughput cell physiological studies, using advanced cultivation methods incorporated together with up-to-date analytical base.

Future development is ensured by the strong framework provided by European Union's support programs. The financial aspects should be reinforced by a number of success factors, including the motivated personnel and young researchers, consensus within the management, a good external network, strong internal and external communication, a clear research focus and the symbiosis of food- and biotechnologies, allied to the development of its own competences and resources.

The European Declaration on Food, Technology and Nutrition

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