SFB 1743:  MY-CO BUILD: Biomanufacturing, characterisation and sustainability assessment of fungal-based building materials

• Subject Area: Thermal Engineering/Process Engineering ; Construction Engineering and Architecture ; Materials Science and Engineering ; Medicine
• Term: since 2026
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 548244816

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• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Current projects

• A01 - Molecular and systems biology methods for establishing Fomes fomentarius as a cell factory for the production of fungal composites (Project Heads Birke, Anna Sofia ;  Meyer, Vera )
• A02 - Diversifying material properties of fungal composites by harnessing intra-species heterogeneity of Fomes fomentarius on different forestry substrates (Project Heads Benz, Philipp ;  Cheng, Tian )
• A03 - Developing and utilising synthetic biology tools for Fomes fomentarius (Project Head Freidank-Pohl, Carsten )
• A04 - Additive manufacturing for the production of fungal composites (Project Head Simon, Ulla )
• A05 - Pretreatment and stabilisation of lignocellulosic biomasses as substrates for fungal composites (Project Head Gusovius, Hans-Jörg )
• A06 - Experimentally supported derivation and initial application of predictive models for substrate comminution (Project Head Kruggel-Emden, Harald )
• A07 - Interactions between growth of Fomes fomentarius and substrate hydrolysis in continuous plug flow-based bioreactor cultivations (Project Heads Junne, Stefan ;  Neubauer, Peter )
• A08 - Mathematical modelling, soft sensors, and control for the production of fungal composites (Project Head Knorn, Steffi )
• A09 - AI-based resource availability assessment model for the growth of raw materials for fungal composites (Project Head Rudolph, Annette )
• B01 - Multiscale characterisation of the mechanical stability and failure mechanisms of fungal composites (Project Head Fleck, Claudia )
• B02 - Fungal composites with nanoparticles: Functionalisation and multiscale characterisation of physicochemical properties and thermal stability (Project Head Gurlo, Aleksander )
• B03 - Three-dimensional structural characterisation and multiscale modelling of end-use properties of fungal composites (Project Head Briesen, Heiko )
• C01 - Building physics characterisation of the thermal, moisture, and fire protection behaviour of fungal composites (Project Head Dehn, Frank )
• C02 - Research on the interfacial interaction between Fomes fomentarius and classical building materials to formulate durable composite materials (Project Head Stephan, Dietmar )
• C03 - Architectural applications and planning methods for fungal composites (Project Head Pfeiffer, Sven )
• MGKiRTG - Integrated Research Training Group (Project Heads Benz, Philipp ;  Rudolph, Annette )
• S - Service Project ‘Manufactory’ (Project Heads Kruggel-Emden, Harald ;  Meyer, Vera )
• SCWIKO - Science Communication Project (Project Heads Dienel, Hans-Liudger ;  Langen, Nina )
• Z - Central Administrative Project (Project Head Meyer, Vera )

• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Berlin
• Participating University: Aalborg Universitet; Hochschule Bochum; Technische Universität München (TUM)
• Participating Institution: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie; Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie e.V. (ATB)
• Spokesperson: Professorin Dr.-Ing. Vera Meyer