Research Focus
Dr. Eudes received a Master’s degree and a PhD in Plant Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the University of Paris XI, Orsay. He is a Biologist Research Scientist at the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division of the Biosciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
At JBEI, Dr. Eudes is the Director of Bioenergy Crop Engineering in the Feedstocks Division. His research interests focus on the development of bioenergy crops for sustainable production of fuels and chemicals.
Projects
- Develop novel approaches to reduce lignin content and/or modify its composition in biomass
- Design metabolic pathways for the production of value-added chemicals in bioenergy crops
- Engineer microbes for the synthesis of plant-specific metabolites
Featured Media
New routes to renewables: Speeding transformation of biofuel waste into wealth
Berkeley Lab researchers discover possible method to reduce cost of biofuels
New Way to Reduce Plant Lignin Could Lead to Cheaper Biofuels
Featured Publications
- “Engineered sorghum bagasse enables a sustainable biorefinery with p-hydroxybenzoic acid-based deep eutectic solvent” ChemSusChem (2021)
- “In-planta production of the biodegradable polyester precursor 2-pyrone-4, 6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC): Stacking reduced biomass recalcitrance with value-added co-product” Metabolic Engineering (2021)
- “Expression of a bacterial 3-dehydroshikimate dehydratase (QsuB) reduces lignin and improves biomass saccharification efficiency in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)” BMC plant biology (2021)
- “Strategies for the production of biochemicals in bioenergy crops” Biotechnology for Biofuels (2020)
- “Influence of hydrocracking and ionic liquid pretreatments on composition and properties of Arabidopsis thaliana wild type and CAD mutant lignins” Renewable Energy (2020)
- “Phenolic cross-links: Building and de-constructing of the plant cell wall” Natural Product Reports (2020)
- “Deep eutectic solvent pretreatment of transgenic biomass with increased C6C1 lignin monomers” Frontiers in Plant Science (2019)
- “Approaches for More Efficient Biological Conversion of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels and Bioproducts”, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2019)
- “Integration of renewable deep eutectic solvents with engineered biomass to achieve a closed-loop biorefinery”, PNAS (2019)
- “Production of clovamide and its analogues in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactococcus lactis”, Letters in Applied Microbiology (2019)
- “A screening method to identify efficient sgRNAs in Arabidopsis, used in conjunction with cell-specific lignin reduction”, Biotechnology for Biofuels (2019)
- “Conversion of depolymerized sugars and aromatics from engineered feedstocks by two oleaginous red yeasts”, Bioresource Technology (2019)
- “Methyl ketone production by Pseudomonas putida is enhanced by plant-derived amino acids”, Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2019)
- “Overexpression of a rice BAHD acyltransferase gene in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) enhances saccharification“, BMC Biotechnology (2018)
- “Increased drought tolerance in plants engineered for low lignin and low xylan content”, Biotechnology for Biofuels (2018)
- “Production of muconic acid in plants”, Metabolic Engineering (2018)
- “Lignin Valorization: Two Hybrid Biochemical Routes for the Conversion of Polymeric Lignin into Value-added Chemicals”, Scientific Reports (2017)
- “SbCOMT (Bmr12) is involved in the biosynthesis of tricin-lignin in sorghum”, PLOS ONE (2017)
- “Exploiting members of the BAHD acyltransferase family to synthesize multiple hydroxycinnamate and benzoate conjugates in yeast”, Microbial Cell Factories (2016)
- “Expression of S-adenosylmethionine Hydrolase in Tissues Synthesizing Secondary Cell Walls Alters Specific Methylated Cell Wall Fractions and Improves Biomass Digestibility”, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2016)
- “Exploiting The Substrate Promiscuity of Hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA:shikimate Hydroxycinnamoyl Transferase to Reduce Lignin”, Plant & Cell Physiology (2016)
- “Precursor-directed combinatorial biosynthesis of cinnamoyl, dihydrocinnamoyl, and benzoyl anthranilates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”, PLOS ONE (2015)
- “Expression of a bacterial 3-dehydroshikimate dehydratase reduces lignin content and improves biomass saccharification efficiency”, Plant Biotechnology Journal (2015)
- “Lignin bioengineering”, Current Opinion in Biotechnology (2014)
- “Production of hydroxycinnamoyl anthranilates from glucose in Escherichia coli.”, Microbial Cell Factories (2013)
- “Biosynthesis and incorporation of side-chain-truncated lignin monomers to reduce lignin polymerization and enhance saccharification”, Plant Biotechnology Journal (2012)
- “Production of tranilast [N-(3′,4′-dimethoxycinnamoyl)-anthranilic acid] and its analogs in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae”, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (2011)
Featured Intellectual Property
- Modified plants and methods for producing modified lignin by modulating expression of acyltransferases
- Tissue specific reduction of lignin
- Lignification reduction in plants
- Host cells and methods for producing cinnamoyl anthranilate and analogs thereof
- Modified plants and methods for reducing cell wall methylation and recalcitrance
- Novel plants and methods for producing muconic acid
- Novel plants and methods for producing 2-pyrone-4, 6-dicarboxylic acid