Institute of Bio- and Geosciences
Synthetic Cell Factories
Head of Department
August 2021
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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| January 2022 | Api´s cover design for an issue was selected by ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering (https://pubs.acs.org/toc/ascecg/9/51) |
| December 2021 | Api´s paper on “Microbial Polyphenol Production in a Biphasic Process” accepted by ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering (https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c05865) |
| November 2021 | Joined manuscript with Julia Frunzke´s group on biosensor-based isolation of amino acid-producing Vibrio natriegens strains published (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mec.2021.e00187) |
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