Microbial Biotechnology Division

Division Board

The Division Board is responsible to plan Division activities, to strengthen collaborations within the European and the international microbial biotechnology community, to actively support conference and workshop organisation in its field, and to monitor the Division finances. The Board members, and their major scientific areas are listed below. The Division Board encourages others, especially younger researchers, to become involved with the organisation of Division activities.

Paola Branduardi

Chair
University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
Keywords: Metabolic Engineering, Biobased microbial processes, Strain robustnes

John Morrissey

Vice Chair
University College Cork, Ireland.
Keywords: yeast, synthetic biology,biotechnology

Pau Ferrer

Treasurer
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Keywords: yeast biotechnology, recombinant protein production, metabolic engineering

Stephanie Heux

Secretary
Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (TBI), Toulouse, France
Keywords: Synthetic metabolism, System Biotechnology, microbial C1 valorization

Jussi Jäntti

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.
Keywords: Synthetic biology, microbe engineering, industrial biotechnology

Jean Marie Francois

Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (TBI), Toulouse,
France
Keywords: Microbial integrated physiology, synthetic microbiology, industrial biotechnology

Ralf Takors

Institute of Biochemical Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Keywords: Biochemical engineering, Systems metabolic engineering, Synthetic biology

Ton van Maris

Kjeld Olesen

Novo Nordisk, Denmark.
Keywords: Yeast molecular genetics, non-canonical
amino acid incorporation, heterologous expression

Ton van Maris

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Keywords: Metabolic engineering, Yeast, Clostridium thermocellum

Verena Siewers

Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden.
Keywords: Yeast metabolic engineering, Synthetic biology

Pablo Iván Nikel

DTU Biosustain, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
Keywords: Metabolic Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Synthetic Metabolism

Karen Polizzi

Imperial College London, UK
Keywords: synthetic biology, genetically-encoded biosensors, recombinant protein production

Jan Maarten van Dijl

University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands
Keywords: Bacillus, protein secretion, genome engineering

Pascale Daran-Lapujade

TU Delft, the Netherlands.
Keywords: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, central carbon metabolism, Synthetic Biology

Diethard Mattanovich

Univ. of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
Keywords: Yeast biotechnology, metabolic engineering,
microbial carbon capture