Research Focus
Using microbiomes and metabolic engineering to convert the whole plant to fuels and chemicals.
Projects
- Cultivating microbiomes to understand lignin modification and depolymerization during biomass deconstruction
- Using microbiomes and novel microbial isolates to understand aromatic uptake and conversio
- Rewiring bacterial metabolism to improve the efficiency of lignocellulose conversion to fuels and chemicals
- Deciphering fungal mechanisms of lignin conversion and glycoside hydrolase expression
- Conversion of CO2 and CH4 to fuels and chemicals
Featured Publications
- “A new path for one-carbon conversion,” Nature Metabolism (2021)
- “CAZymes from the thermophilic fungus Thermoascus aurantiacus are induced by C5 and C6 sugars,” Biotechnol Biofuels (2021)
- “Metabolic Engineering of Cupriavidus necator H16 for Sustainable Biofuels from CO2,” Trends in Biotechnology (2021)
- “Development of genetic tools for the thermophilic filamentous fungus Thermoascus aurantiacus,” Biotechnology for Biofuels (2020)