Institute of Bio- and Geosciences
Synthetic Cell Factories
Head of Department
June 2019
Prof. Dr. Jan Marienhagen
Institute of Bio- and Geosciences
IBG-1: Biotechnology
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
52425 Jülich
Germany
We want to contribute to the understanding of bacterial metabolism and are interested in expanding the biosynthetic capabilities of microorganisms for applied purposes.
We focus on the engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for the sustainable production of value-added small molecules such as natural products, fine chemicals or pharmaceutical building blocks from biomass and other waste streams rich in carbon and energy.
In addition, we are developing new molecular tools for the editing of bacterial genomes and the high-throughput screening of metabolite producing bacteria at the single cell level using biosensors and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS).
Former head of group
News and Highlights | |
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| December 2020 | Hannah joins the group for her Masters´s thesis. Welcome! |
| October 2020 | Christiane´s manuscript on the unified biosensor design was accepted by Metabolic Engineering Communications and is already online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mec.2020.e00150 Congratulations! |
| September 2020 | “Engineering and application of a biosensor with focused ligand specificity” now online: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18400-0 |
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