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Marie Gorwa-Grauslund

 

Marie Gorwa-Grauslund, is professor at Applied Microbiology since 2009. She obtained a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Genetics in 1996 from INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) in Toulouse, France. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Research Centre of Lesaffre in Marcq en Baroeul, France on the development of stress-tolerant yeast, she integrated the division of Applied Microbiology. MGG is responsible for the course Metabolic Engineering

 

 

MGG is heading a group on microbial metabolic engineering. Current projects involve developing pentose-fermenting and inhibitor-tolerant Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) for the production of bioethanol and other bulk chemicals of interest as well as understanding and improving stereo-selective whole cell biocatalysis. More recently, the potential of bioconverting lignin components into high value compounds is also investigated (www.lignin.lu.se). The database we built on the catabolism of lignin aromatics can be found here

 

MGG publication list is available here.

Phone: +46 46 222 0619

E-mail: Marie-Francoise.Gorwa@tmb.lth.se

 

Current group members

  • Viktor Persson - Ph.D. student; bioethanol
  • Fredrik Lund - Ph.D. student; lignin
  • Gisele de Lima Palermo - Visiting Ph.D. student from UNICAMP, Brazil

Ph.D. alumni

  • Raquel Perruca Foncillas (2023). Evaluation of biosensors and flow cytometry as monitoring tools in lignocellulosic bioethanol production.

  • Celina Tufvegren Borgström (2021). The role of sugar sensing and pathway selection on D-xylose utilization by Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

  • Daniel Brink (2019). Understanding and improving microbial cell factories through Large Scale Data-approaches.

  • Karen Ofuji Osiro (2019). Used but not sensed: the paradox of D-xylose metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

  • Diogo J.P. Nunes (2017). Exploring yeast as a cell factory for the production of carboxylic acids and derivatives.

  • Alejandro Muñoz (2017). Application of synthetic biology for biopolymer production using Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  • Venkatachalam Narayanan (2016). Exploring inhibitor tolerance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for lignocellulosic ethanol production.

  • Valeria Wallace (2014). Improving stress tolerance in industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass.

  • Violeta Sànchez Nogué (2013). Industrial challenges in the use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for ethanolic fermentation of lignocellulosic biomass.

  • Nadia Skorupa Parachin (2010). Biocatalysts engineering: metabolic engineering, kinetic modeling and metagenomics applied to industrial biotechnology.

  • Rosa Garcia Sanchez (2010). Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for mixed-sugar fermentation.

  • Joâo Almeida (2009). Improving the response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to lignocellulosic hydrolysate inhibitors in ethanolic fermentation.

  • Oskar Bengtsson (2008). Genetic traits beneficial for xylose utilization by recombinant S. cerevisiae.

  • Magnus Carlquist (2008). Enzymatic reductions of ketones.

  • Ted Johanson (2007). Engineered yeast as biocatalyst for stereoselective reductions of dicarbonyl compounds.

  • Kaisa Karhumaa (2006). Engineering xylose and arabinose metabolism in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

  • Marie Jeppsson (2004). Metabolic engineering of xylose-utilising Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains.

  • Michael Katz (2004). Bioreduction of carbonyl compounds to chiral alcohols by whole yeast cells.

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