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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Metabolism, Biochemistry, and Genetics of Microorganisms,Microbial Ecology and Applied Microbiology |
| Keywords | product applications as biofuels, anticancer and a, production of natural molecules, development of foundational engineering tools, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering and regulation of microorgan |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Aachen |
| Institution | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen |
| Institute | Institut für Angewandte Mikrobiologie |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Lars M. Blank | Institut für Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/12/2023 |
Program(s)
| 2023 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Keasling is a pioneer in the field of synthetic biology. He is known for engineering microbial metabolism to generate robust hosts able to produce valuable compounds, such as biofuels, commodity chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, under various industrial conditions for a broad range of applications. His latest work on natural product synthesis allows the conversion of simple renewable resources into molecules dearly required in the pharma industry. In Germany, Professor Keasling focuses on optimizing strategies, especially on the terpenoid synthesis and metabolic engineering of pseudomonas as host organisms. |