Staff Profile:Dr Afroditi Chatzifragkou

Name:

Dr Afroditi Chatzifragkou

Job Title:

Lecturer in Food Processing

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

Biotechnology; Food waste; Microbial conversions

The area of research that I am developing is the exploitation of agri-industrial by-products and waste-streams within a biorefinery concept, for the production of functional compounds for food and non-food applications. Food grade wastes have potential as sources of profitable food ingredients of nutritional importance such as phytochemicals, functional lipids or prebiotic carbohydrates. To this end, my research involves the utilisation of microorganisms and/ or enzymes for the biotransformation of waste streams into microbial lipids, platform chemicals and biopolymers.

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Jump to: 2020

Number of items: 6.

2020

• Kaldis, F., Cysneiros, D., Day, J., Karatzas, K.-A. G. and Chatzifragkou, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9255-7871 (2020) Anaerobic digestion of steam-exploded wheat straw and co-digestion strategies for enhanced biogas production. Applied Sciences, 10 (22). ISSN 2076-3417 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/app10228284 (In Press)
• Azman, E. M., Charalampopoulos, D. and Chatzifragkou, A. (2020) Acetic acid buffer as extraction medium for free and bound phenolics from dried blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum L.) skins. Journal of Food Science, 85 (11). pp. 3745-3755. ISSN 0022-1147 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-3841.15466
• Azman, E. M., House, A., Charalampopoulos, D. and Chatzifragkou, A. (2020) Effect of dehydration on phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity of blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum L.) pomace. International Journal of Food Science and Technology. ISSN 1365-2621 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijfs.14762
• Harith, Z. T., de Andrade Lima, M., Charalampopoulos, D. and Chatzifragkou, A. (2020) Optimised production and extraction of astaxanthin from the yeast Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous. Microorganisms, 8 (3). 430. ISSN 2076-2607 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8030430
• Xenopoulos, E., Giannikakis, I., Chatzifragkou, A., Koutinas, A. and Papanikolaou, S. (2020) Lipid production by yeasts growing on commercial xylose in submerged cultures with process water being partially replaced by olive mill wastewaters. Processes, 8 (7). 819. ISSN 2227-9717 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8070819
• Picchioni, F., Warren, G. P., Lambert, S., Balcombe, K., Robinson, J. S., Srinivasan, C., Gomez, L. D., Laura, F., Westwood, N. J., Chatzifragkou, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9255-7871, Charalampopoulos, D. and Shaw, L. (2020) Valorisation of natural resources and the need for economic and sustainability sssessment: the case of cocoa pod husk in Indonesia. Sustainability, 12 (21). 8962. ISSN 2071-1050 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218962

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A. Chatzifragkou, S. Papanikolaou, N. Kopsahelis, V. Kachrimanidou, M.P. Dorado, A.A. Koutinas (2014) "Biorefinery development through utilization of biodiesel industry by-products as sole fermentation feedstock for 1,3-propanediol production". Bioresource Technology, 159, 167-175.

A. Chatzifragkou, S. Papanikolaou, D. Dietz, A.I. Doulgeraki, G.J.E. Nychas, A.P. Zeng (2011) "Production of 1,3-propanediol by Clostridium butyricum growing on biodiesel-derived crude glycerol through a non-sterilized fermentation process", Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 91 (1):101-102.

A. Chatzifragkou, A. Makri, A. Belka, S. Bellou, M. Mavrou, M. Mastoridou, P.Mystrioti, G. Onjaro, G. Aggelis, S. Papanikolaou (2010) "Biotechnological conversions of biodiesel derived waste glycerol by yeast and fungal species", Energy, 36:1097-1108.

A. Chatzifragkou, D. Dietz, M. Komaitis, A. P. Zeng, S. Papanikolaou (2010) "Effect of biodiesel-derived waste glycerol impurities on biomass and 1,3-propanediol production of Clostridium butyricum VPI 1718", Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 107 (1):76-84.

A. Chatzifragkou, S. Fakas, M. Galiotou-Panagiotou, M. Komaitis, G. Aggelis, S. Papanikolaou (2010) "Commercial sugars as substrates for lipid accumulation by Cunnighamella echinulata and Mortierella isabellina fungi", European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, 112:1048-1057

Qualifications:

PhD in Food Biotechnology
MSc in Food Science and Technology and Human Nutrition
BSc in Food Science and Technology