Back to profile Projects - dr. NJHP (Nico) Claassens Advanced engineering of C1 metabolism towards methanol-based biotechnology This project focused on environmental sustainability, with the aim of developing a microbial workhorse that can efficiently utilize one- carbon... Growing fast on a formate diet: A metabolic engineering challenge in E. coli This project aims to develop and characterize an E. coli strain capable of growing rapidly and efficiently on sustainable one-carbon compounds like... Metabolic engineering of thermophilic bacilli to produce lactate out of C1 renewable feedstocks Replacing fossil fuels with renewable feedstocks to produce commodities becomes an urgent matter to face global warming. This project aims to produce... Seizing cell cycle of a synthetic cell The perspective of a synthetic cell makes it possible to rewrite the rules governing life. This project focuses on the cell cycle, aiming at designing...