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Inside the Cocoa Zero Lab | ValleyDAO at Imperial College London

Join Albert from ValleyDAO as he heads to London to check in on one of our flagship funded research projects: Cocoa Zero. In this behind-the-scenes lab visit, Oliver Konzock walks us through the science powering the future of sustainable cocoa fats, from shaking flasks to bioreactors, lipid extraction, freeze-drying, and the GC-MS workflow that reveals the fatty acid profiles inside each engineered yeast strain. You’ll see: • How Yarrowia lipolytica is grown, scaled, and optimized • Why oxygen, mixing, and culture size matter for lipid production • What it takes to break open cells and extract usable fats • How GC-MS analysis works and why it’s central to Cocoa Zero • The massive long-term sample library behind ongoing strain development • The 30-litre bioreactor runs that push the project toward real-world scale The goal is to create sustainable, locally produced cocoa fats without relying on tropical supply chains, enabling chocolate, cosmetics, and other lipid-based industries to diversify sources, cut emissions, and unlock new biotechnology-driven production. Step inside the lab, meet the Cocoa Zero team: Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro and Oliver Konzock, and see how ValleyDAO-funded science moves from concept to experiment to potential impact.