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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
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- Differences in glucose sensing and signaling for pexophagy between the baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris(2008)
Authors: Johan Thevelein
Pages: 381 - 384 - Combined inactivation of the Candida albicans GPR1 and TPS2 genes results in avirulence in a mouse model for systemic infection(2008)
Authors: Johan Thevelein, Patrick Van Dijck
Pages: 1686 - 1694 - Flavour formation in fungi: characterisation of KlAtf, the Kluyveromyces lactis orthologue of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae alcohol acetyltransferases Atf1 and Atf2(2008)
Authors: Sofie Saerens, Kevin Verstrepen, Patrick Van Dijck, Johan Thevelein, Freddy Delvaux
Pages: 783 - 792 - Cyclic AMP-protein kinase A and Snf1 signaling mechanisms underlie the superior potency of sucrose for induction of filamentation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae(2008)
Authors: Johan Thevelein
Pages: 286 - 293 - Formation of higher alcohols and their acetate esters(2008)
Authors: Stijn Van Laere, Kevin Verstrepen, Johan Thevelein, Patrick Van Dijck, Freddy Delvaux
- Correlation between glucose/fructose discrepancy and hexokinase kinetic properties in different Saccharomyces cerevisiae wine yeast strains(2008)
Authors: Johan Thevelein
Pages: 1083 - 1091 - Parameters affecting ethyl ester production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae during fermentation(2008)
Authors: Sofie Saerens, Freddy Delvaux, Kevin Verstrepen, Patrick Van Dijck, Johan Thevelein, Filip Delvaux
Pages: 454 - 461
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)