Projects

Most systems biology deals with Life as we know it on this planet (Earth). This project will focus on how (nonsynthetic) Life may differ from mainstream Life. The ultimate focus thereby rests on extraterrestrial Life, but for lack of definitive evidence of this, the project studies Life found under conditions that may be similar to extraterrestrial conditions enabling Life. The focus is herewith on the systems biology in remote environments on Earth. The project deals both with the systems cell ...

Systems Biology as we know it is mostly terrestrial, i.e. it deals with mainstream Life on planet Earth. There are two exceptions. One is synthetic systems biology that designs other types of Life. The other exception studies the systems that may exist on other planets, or that exists at remote locations on planet Earth. Xenosystems Biology refers to the latter exception. At present this runs projects that deal with Life as found at remote locations on Earth, which are held representative of other ...

D-xylose is a major component of lignocellulose and is after D-glucose the most abundant monosaccharide on earth. However, D-xylose cannot be naturally utilised by several industrially relevant microorganisms. On the way to a strong bio-based economy in Europe, this widely available feedstock has to be made accessible for the sustainable microbial synthesis of value-added chemical building blocks to be used in a broad range of applications. The project aims at engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum ...