BactoHealing - Bio-Kin-Tsugi as a trans-disciplinary tool to bridge science and society and challenge the ethics of synthetic biology

Cofunding core facility - HTS for SynBio

MyCOS - Synthetic biology for a sustainable conversion of fungal chitin-rich waste streams into valuable biobased chitooligosaccharides for plant health

Unlocking powerful non-model organisms in microbial synthetic biology - POSSIBL

Accelerated adaptive laboratory evolution for conversion of probiotic hosts towards sustainable and resilient cell factories for high-value applications: Microbial synthesis of defined chitinpentaose as proof-of-concept

Development of engineered living materials

Doctoral project Andries Peeters

Doctoral project Cara Deal

Expanding the toolbox of quorum sensing switches toward the creation of two-stage fermentation processes.

Integration of synthetic biology, systems biology and machine learning for the production of chitooligosaccharides in <i>Escherichia coli</i>

Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to microbial produce plant metabolites

Microbial strain engineering for the production of structurally defined carbohydrates with immunomodulating properties

Standardization and expansion of microbial cell sensors: harnessing the power of LysR-type transcriptional regulators.

Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering for microbial COS production

Synthetic Biology tools for non-model microorganism

Tackling functionality and balanced expression of cytochrome P450 enzymes: a generic toolbox for the production of specialized plant metabolites in bacteria

Understanding bacterial stress: Systems metabolic engineering to unlock the potential of <i>Escherichia coli</i> for amino sugar derivative production.

Approaches to the development of designer cellulosomes for biorefinery applications.

COupling BIocatalysis and heterogeneous CATalysis for the production of aviation fuel from renewable resources (COBICAT)

Doctoral project Frederik De Bruyn

exploring the functional potential of bacterial pigments for innovative food and feed applications

Improving the anaerobic digestion microbiome using synthetic biology

Revolutionizing viral and bacterial diagnostics in veterinary medicine using nanopore sequencing

Scaffoldomics for product yield maximization of fine chemicals in microbial cell factories

Unraveling the immunomodulating properties of structurally defined glycans to improve animal health

Accelerated adaptive laboratory evolution for conversion of probiotic hosts towards sustainable and resilient cell factories for high-value applications: Microbial synthesis of defined chitinpentaose as proof-of-concept

Advanced Licensable Pathway for Hyaluronan and Amino sugar bioproduction

A high-throughput electroporation system for rapid strain development for industrial biotechnology purposes

Assembly and optimization of synthetic pathways Saccharonmyces cerevisiae: aurones case study

Biohexamine - a path towards securing responsible producers and societies

BioMolecules

BioRoBoost - Fostering Synthetic Biology standardisation through international collaboration

Biosensors and high-throughput engineering for the production of secondary plant metabolites with flavones as proof-of-concept product class in E.coli

BOF ZAP Industrial biotechnology

Combinatorial engineering of artificial metabolons for the production of isoflavones with yeast

Completing the product-market fit of the B-COS platform: biological plant priming for a customized agriculture

COS4AnimalHealth - Chitooligosaccharides platform for animal health applications

Decipher cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYPs) by digital tools to produce flavonoids and terpenoids

Design of a bioactive metabolite discovery pipeline by exploiting the chemical warfare during tomatofungi interactions

Development of a generic screening platform for metabolic engineering applied to the selection of an optimal sialic acid producer

Development of microbial cell factories for the production of chitoheptaose and -octaose using metabolic and protein engineering: Promising molecules with an underexplored potential for plant, animal and human health

Disclosing the bacterial domain for industrial biotechnology applications: Cross-Bacterial Expression System (CBES) transplantation to turn Cupriavidus necator into a kaempferolproducing microbial cell factory

Disclosing thermophiles for industrial biotechnology by developing an orthogonal synthetic biology toolbox.

Enlisting synthetic fungal-bacterial consortia to produce multi-cellular mycelium-based ELMs with computational capability

Expanding the genetic circuit repertoire for the optimization of microbial cell factories producing partially acetylated chitooligosaccharides.

Expanding the portfolio of bacterial hosts for industrial biotechnology through the development of a cross-bacterial, orthogonal and tunable gene expression system.

Fine tuning of Synthetic Pathways through Conditional Expression for the production of biochemicals

Fundamental analytical platform for targeted metabolomics to study the synthesis and role of plant metabolites

Initiation of the valorization of biotechnological process for production of chito-oligosaccharides

Interlocking synthetic biology, systems biology and artificial intelligence to develop a more efficient metabolic engineering workflow: a highly efficient biotechnological production platform for monoclonal chitooligosaccharides.

Merging immunology with synthetic biology to improve animal health: strain engineering for the production of structurally defined carbohydrates with immunomodulating properties

Minimizing metabolic burden caused by heterologous expression of synthetic pathways: development of sensors & actuators, implementation of a genetic circuit with beta-carotene production in E. coli as case study

MoBioS - Modular Biological Sensor for Industrial Biotechnology

Natural and Synthetic Microbial Communities for Sustainable Production of Optimised Biogas

New-to-nature Biological Sensors: Unlocking the full potential of biological sensors beyond nature

Optimization of Synthetic Pathways Using Metabolons for Enhanced Production of Biochemicals

Optimization of the biotechnological production of chito-oligosaccharides and functionalized derivatives

Special Research Fund Professorship in xx

Sulfolobus acidocaldarius as a novel thermoacidophilic microbial cell factory for biomanufacturing

Syn/SysBio4COS: Combining synthetic and systems biology to unlock the potential of the hexosamine biosynthesis pathway for chitooligosaccharide production

Synthetic biology and artificial intelligence, mutual learning to advance together and jointly drive industrial biotechnology - accelerating knowledge discovery and strain engineering

Tackling functionality and balanced expression of cytochrome P450 enzymes: a generic toolbox for the production of specialized plant metabolites in bacteria

Tackling functionality and balanced expression of cytochrome P450 enzymes: a generic toolbox for the production of specialized plant metabolites in bacteria

Thermoacidophilic cell factories for innovative biorefinery solutions

Tuning auto-inducible pathway-independent dynamic switches for the optimisation of the microbial production of partially acetylated chitooligosaccharides

Unlocking the full potential of Microbial Synthetic Biology: an engineering discipline coming of age

Unraveling amino sugar-phosphate stress regulation and response mechanisms in Escherichia coli to enable the development of microbial cell factories for the synthesis of amino sugar containing compounds

Unraveling amino sugar-phosphate stress regulation and response mechanisms in Escherichia coli to enable the development of microbial cell factories for the synthesis of amino sugar containing compounds.

A new route towards the production of L-sugars and derivatives: an integration of enzyme engineering and pathway design

BioChroma: Exploring the functional potential of bacterial pigments for innovative food and feed applications

Exploring the scope of nickel pincer as enzymatic cofactor: engineering of gluconate epimerase towards the production of rare sugars.

Nano3Bio – NanoBioEngingeering of Bioinspired Biopolymers

Research into the development of a PET bottle with biologically active barrier for O2 and CO2, and adapted for this production method.

Scaffoldomics for product yield maximization of fine chemicals in microbial cell factories

Scaffoldomics for product yield maximization of fine chemicals in microbial cell factories

Single-cell based analysis and sorting to study microbial (sub)populations.

Valorisation of industrial bio-based side streams with designer cellulosomics

BOF ZAP Industrial biotechnology

Disclosing the bacterial domain for industrial biotechnology applications: Development of genetic circuitry for stable and controlled expression across bacteria

Special Research Fund Professorship in xx