Our Research
The Biosystems Engineering Lab specializes in engineering microbial systems to produce valuable industrial chemicals and bioremediate persistent and toxic compounds. We put special efforts into developing innovative bioprocesses that utilize renewable carbon substrates derived from waste streams. We also systematically examine the metabolic functioning of microbes, including both individual organisms and communities, through the integration of omics data into genome-scale metabolic models and the reconstruction of metabolic networks. Additionally, we actively isolate and characterize novel microbial cell factories and pollutant-degrading microbes from extreme environments at the genomic level, an area of research in which we are deeply invested.
