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Researcher
Johan Thevelein
- Disciplines:Biomaterials engineering, Biological system engineering, Biomechanical engineering, Other (bio)medical engineering, Environmental engineering and biotechnology, Industrial biotechnology, Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering
Affiliations
- Molecular Biotechnology of Plants and Micro-organisms (Division)
Member
From1 Feb 2017 → 30 Sep 2020
Projects
1 - 10 of 25
- Development of a superior industrial yeast strain for consolidated bioprocessing of lignocellulosic biomassFrom23 Sep 2019 → 5 Mar 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Engineering of a second-generation Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain for the production of 2,3-butanediol from biomassFrom1 Oct 2018 → 17 Apr 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- SPICY - Sugar-based chemicals and Polymers through Innovative Chemocatalysis and engineered YeastFrom1 Feb 2018 → 31 Jul 2022Funding: VLAIO CATALISTI - Cooperative research project
- Unraveling the polygenic basis of HMF and furfural tolerance in yeast for optimization of lignocellulose-based processesFrom15 Oct 2015 → 4 Nov 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Induction of programmed cell death by synergistic modulation of glycolytic flux and Ras activity in yeast and cancer cellsFrom14 Sep 2015 → 9 Jul 2021Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- ARBOREF: integrated 'lignin first' biorefineryFrom1 Apr 2015 → 31 Mar 2019Funding: IWT / VLAIO - FISCH /Catalisti vzw
- Development of a xylose-utilizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell factory for the production of muconic acid and protocatechuic acidFrom13 Jan 2015 → 11 Jan 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Heterologous polygenic trait analysis using genomic degeneration mutagenesis of species hybrids.From1 Jan 2015 → 20 May 2020Funding: IWT personal funding - strategic basic research grants
- Development of superior industrial yeast strains by polygenic modification.From1 Jan 2015 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: SBO (Strategic basic research)
- Conferring lignocellulolytic capacity to a superior industrial yeast strain for second-generation bioethanol production.From1 Jan 2015 → 23 Jun 2020Funding: IWT personal funding - strategic basic research grants
Publications
11 - 20 of 156
- Development of a xylose-utilizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell factory for the production of muconic acid and protocatechuic acid(2022)
Authors: Thomas Nicolaï, Bert Sels, Johan Thevelein, Maria Remedios Foulquié Moreno
- Towards valorization of pectin-rich agro-industrial residues: Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for co-fermentation of D-galacturonic acid and glycerol(2022)
Authors: Johan Thevelein
Pages: 1 - 14 - A novel AST2 mutation generated upon whole-genome transformation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae confers high tolerance to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and other inhibitors(2021)
Authors: Gert Vanmarcke, Quinten Deparis, Arne Peetermans, Johan Thevelein
- Identification, Characterization and Evaluation of the Novel Class of Warbicin Oncostatic Glucose Transport Inhibitors(2021)
Authors: Ward Vanthienen, Filip Rolland, Johan Thevelein
- In-situ muconic acid extraction reveals sugar consumption bottleneck in a xylose-utilizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain(2021)
Authors: Thomas Nicolaï, Quinten Deparis, Johan Thevelein
- Mechanisms underlying lactic acid tolerance and its influence on lactic acid production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae(2021)
Authors: Arne Peetermans, Johan Thevelein
Pages: 111 - 130 - Unraveling continuous 2G ethanol production from xylose using hemicellulose hydrolysate and immobilized superior recombinant yeast in fixed-bed bioreactor(2021)
Authors: Johan Thevelein
- Characterization of SGLT1-mediated glucose transport in Caco-2 cell monolayers, and absence of its regulation by sugar or epinephrine(2021)
Authors: Chetan Pradeep Kulkarni, Johan Thevelein, Walter Luyten
- Identification of the major fermentation inhibitors of recombinant 2G yeasts in diverse lignocellulose hydrolysates(2021)
Authors: Gert Vanmarcke, Johan Thevelein
- Whole-Genome Transformation Promotes tRNA Anticodon Suppressor Mutations under Stress(2021)
Authors: Quinten Deparis, Johan Thevelein
Patents
1 - 10 of 10
- Means and methods to modulate acetic acid tolerance in industrial fermentations (Inventor)
- Means and methods to modulate acetic acid tolerance in industrial fermentations (Inventor)
- Means and methods to improve yeast fermentation efficiency (Inventor)
- Causative genes conferring acetic acid tolerance in yeast (Inventor)
- Means and methods to modulate flavor production in yeast fermentations (Inventor)
- Wholemeal bread with reduced fodmap content (Inventor)
- Causative genes conferring acetic acid tolerance in yeast (Inventor)
- Means and methods to modulate probiotic potency of the yeast saccharomyces boulardii (Inventor)
- Means and methods to modulate flavor production in yeast fermentations (Inventor)
- Causative genes conferring acetic acid tolerance in yeast (Inventor)