This seminar series focuses on developing the conceptual framework defining the Design-Build-Test-Learn (DBTL) cycle for microbial biotechnology. Bioeconomies are based on renewable land, soil and marine resources, such as crops, fish, forests and animals. Microbial biotechnology designs and builds new strains of microbes that can produce chemical building blocks, food supplements, novel medicines and fuels to replace fossil fuels and preserve biodiversity; it establishes protocols to test strains performance and develops mechanistic and machine learning models to learn their dynamic behaviour from experimental data. Topics in the seminar series include, but are not limited to:

• Building scalable microbial Genome-Scale Metabolic Models (GSMMs);
• Developing a knowledge-based infrastructure for biotechnology;
• Developing a unified semantic ontology for microbial biotechnology;
• Developing training and community engagement in microbial biotechnology.

The seminar is scheduled to run once a month, on the second Monday, from 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. CET (please note that this webpage displays the schedule in your local time zone). Each session will feature a 15–20 minute talk followed by a short Q&A. The seminar will be followed by the ELIXIR microbial biotechnology community's monthly meeting, which runs from 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Seminar attendees are welcome to stay, although participation in this follow-up internal meeting is not required. Please sign up here to be kept updated on the seminar series. We look forward welcoming you at the seminar series and meeting you over zoom at the address: The organizers