Professor Vincent Bulone
Director Adelaide Glycomics, Director Res Consort Program for Ag Prod Dev, Research Director Fight Food Waste CRC
School of Agriculture, Food and Wine
Faculty of Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Professor Vincent Bulone is the Director of Adelaide Glycomics, an analytical centre for complex carbohydrates he established in collaboration with Agilent Technologies Australia Pty Ltd, and the Director of the Research Consortium Program for Agricultural Product Development supported by the South Australia Department for Industry and Skills, focusing on the conversion of agricultural waste into high-value products. Vincent is also the Research Director of the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre which will be instrumental in addressing Australia’s $20 billion food waste situation.
Vincent’s research is focused in various areas of Glycoscience, comprising fundamental research on plants and microorganisms, as well as biotechnological developments towards carbohydrate-based products relevant to the following areas: Bioenergy, Biomaterials, Biorefinery, Agriculture and Waste Management, Food Sustainability and Disease Control.
Vincent was a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts and former director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls. Prior to his recruitment in Adelaide, Vincent was the Director of the Centre for Biomimetic Fibre Engineering and the Advanced Carbohydrate Materials Consortium in Stockholm, Sweden. Vincent is the founder of the spin-out company CarbOzide Pty Ltd in Adelaide. The company exploits his recent invention on UV protective materials based on carbohydrates and natural molecular sunscreens from algae.
Adelaide GlycoScience Research Group
Research Interests
- Biosynthesis of plant, fungal and oomycete cell wall polysaccharides: biochemical and biophysical approaches for the study of membrane-bound complexes with glycosyltransferase activity and characterisation of the corresponding polysaccharides, with particular emphasis on cellulose, (1→3)-β-D-glucan and chitin biosynthesis
- Metabolic engineering of plant and microbial polysaccharide biosynthetic pathways
- Quantitative proteomics; Protein/lipid interactions
- Engineering and characterization of carbohydrate-based composites
- Applied aspects of carbohydrate biosynthetic pathways, including aspects relevant to the following sectors: food sustainability, bioenergy, biomaterials, biorefinery, anti-fungal and anti-oomycete inhibitors and herbicides
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Research Interests
Agricultural Biotechnology Agricultural Marine Biotechnology Agriculture Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Bioinformatics Biomaterials Biotechnology Cell Metabolism Crop and Pasture Biochemistry Crop and Pasture Biomass Crop and Pasture Bioproducts Crop and Pasture Protection Enzymes Forestry Biomass and Bioproducts Functional Materials Gene Expression Genomics Horticultural Crop Protection Infectious Agents Instruments and Techniques Medical Biochemistry: Carbohydrates Microbiology Mycology Plant Biology Plant Pathology Plant Physiology Polymers Proteomics and Intermolecular Interactions Structural Biology
| Type of grant | Grant period | Total funding (AUD 000) |
|---|---|---|
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Swedish Centre for Biomimetic Fiber Engineering (Biomime) |
2006 – 2013 |
10,000 |
| Type of grant | Grant period | Total funding (AUD 000) |
|---|---|---|
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Large Collaborative Project RENEWALL: Exploitation of plant cell walls for biofuel production |
2008 – 2012 |
6,000 |
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Initial Training Network SAPRO: Saprolegnia diseases |
2010 – 2013 |
6,000 |
|
Intra-European Fellowship CBOP: Tackling the potato pathogen Phytophthora infestans |
2011 – 2013 |
294 |
|
Large collaborative project MULTIBIOPRO: Biorefinery of woody plants |
2012 – 2016 |
8,700 |
|
Large collaborative project Nano3Bio: Engineering of chitin & chitosan with defined structures and applications thereof |
2014 – 2018 |
13,400 |
|
Intra-European Fellowship ULTRAPROMAT: Design & fabrication of UV-protective green materials |
2014 – 2017 |
322 |
| Future & Emerging Technologies (FET) Horizon 2010 NOPEST: Disease control in crops against oomycetes | 2019 – 2023 | 5,140 |
| Type of grant | Grant period | Total funding (AUD 000) |
|---|---|---|
|
Biorefinery & biotechnological exploitation of marine biomasses |
2016 – 2019 |
3,300 |
| Seaweeds for novel applications and products | 2020 – 2023 | 3,360 |
| Novel bioplastics from sustainable processing of seaweed | 2020 – 2023 | 3,530 |
| Type of grant | Grant period | Total funding (AUD 000) |
|---|---|---|
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CarboNor - Converting carbohydrate polymers from Nordic algal biomass into high-value biotech products |
2020 – 2022 |
1,800 |
| Type of grant | Grant period | Total funding (AUD 000) |
|---|---|---|
|
Fucoidan for biomedical applications |
2020 – 2023 |
3,740 |
| Type of grant | Grant period | Total funding (AUD 000) |
|---|---|---|
|
Research Project: Disease control in the potato pathogen Phytophthora infestans |
2009 – 2013 |
700 |
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Research Project: Metabolic engineering of plant cell walls |
2010 – 2014 |
525 |
|
Post-doc stipend grant: Oomycete diseases |
2011 – 2013 |
170 |
|
Strong Research Environment CARBOMAT: Carbohydrate-based materials |
2010 – 2015 |
4,800 |
|
Research Project: Targeting cell wall biosynthesis in pathogenic oomycetes for disease control in fish |
2014 – 2017 |
770 |
| Type of grant | Grant period | Total funding (AUD 000) |
|---|---|---|
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Research Project: Engineering of carbohydrate biosynthetic pathways for materials production |
2012 – 2015 |
308 |
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Research Project: Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases as new biotechnological tools for wood nanofiber modification |
2016 – 2019 |
465 |
| Research Project: Organisation and synthesis of the cell walls of vascular plant cells |
2017– 2020 | 570 |
| Type of grant | Grant period | Total funding (AUD 000) |
|---|---|---|
|
CSC-China - PhD student salaries for molecular modeling of carbohydrate/protein interactions |
2012 – 2016 |
308 |
|
Bayer CropScience - Industrial contract: Cotton fiber engineering |
2008 – 2015 |
1,960 |
|
Other collaborative grants - e.g., matching funding from KTH for participation in ARC CoE PCW; CSIRO Food Flagship; NSF (USA), others |
2010 – 2017 |
1,554 |
| Type of grant | Grant period | Total funding (AUD 000) |
|---|---|---|
|
ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls (ARC funding) |
2015 – 2017 |
19,250 |
|
ARC Discovery Project (DP160100309) - Cell wall structure and dynamics in emerging fungal pathogens of crops |
2016 – 2019 |
682 |
| ARC Linkage Project (LP160100700) – Spent grain from brewing industry | 2016 – 2019 | 1,020 |
|
ARC Discovery Project (DP180103974) – Oomycete pathogens |
2018 – 2020 |
546 |
| Type of grant | Grant period | Total funding (AUD 000) |
|---|---|---|
| RCP for Agricultural Product Development |
2018 – 2023 |
10,900 |
| Period | Title | Duties |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 – 2006 | Coordinator of a Master of Research in Biochemistry (University of Lyon, France) |
Lecturer in Biochemistry to equivalent to 3rd and 4th year students; |
| 2001 – 2006 | Professor of Biochemistry (University of Lyon, France) | Lecturer in Biochemistry to 2nd to 5th year students |
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