Plants as Factories for Bioproduction

Juliane Steingroewer is a Research Associate and Head of the Algae and Plant Biotechnology Research Group at the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering, at the Institute of Natural Materials Technology, Technische Universität Dresden. She is an experienced researcher, mentor and university lecturer and has in-depth knowledge in the field of cultivation of plant cell and tissue cultures and microalgae. Together with young scientists in her group, she conducts research on the development of efficient processes for the production of active substances from plant in vitro cultures and algae. In 2017, she habilitated on this topic and obtained the authorisation to teach in the field of bioprocess engineering. She is the author, senior author and co-author of over 40 peer-reviewed articles and she has filed several patents.

• Plant cell cultures in Cellular Agriculture.- Food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic ingredients.-​ Plant in vitro culture factories for pentacyclic triterpenoids production.- Production of plant proteins with pharmacological potential.- Co-cultures from plants and cyanobacteria–a new way for production systems in agriculture and bioprocess engineering.- Disposable bioreactors used in process developments and production processes with plant cell and tissue cultures.- Resource efficient production of secondary plant metabolites from residues of medicinal and aromatic plants.