Maximilian Bahls

Exploiting native endowments by re-factoring, re-programming and implementing novel control loops in Pseudomonas putida for bespoke biocatalysis. The EmPowerPutida project aims to engineer the lifestyle of Pseudomonas putida to generate a tailored, re-factored chassis for the production of so far non-accessible biological compounds. Pseudomonas putida is a bacterium with a highly versatile metabolism, including the capability to degrade or produce organic chemicals.

Describes the steps required in order to detect and quantify alcohols and other volatile compounds in microbial culture supernatants by gas chromatography with a flame-ionization detector (GC-FID).

Describes the cultivation-, washing- and electroporation-steps required in order to transform bacterial cells with DNA.

Describes the steps required in order to run an error-prone PCR (epPCR) for the creation of DNA libraries of a given template gene.