Researcher
Kevin Verstrepen
- Disciplines (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology):Auto-ecology, Biogeography and phylogeography, Anthropological genetics, Bacteriology, Biogeochemical cycli, Epigenomics
- Disciplines (KU Leuven):Population, ecological and evolutionary genetics, Microbiomes, Fermentation, Mycology, Food fermentation
- See also: Kevin Verstrepen (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)
Affiliations
- Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG) (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Food and Microbial Technology (CLMT) (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → 30 Sep 2007 - VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology (Research Center)
Responsible
From1 Jan 2017 → Today - Verstrepen Lab (Research group)
Responsible
From1 Jan 2017 → Today - Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 2007 → 31 Jul 2020
Infrastructure
1 - 1 of 1
Projects
1 - 10 of 69
- Harnessing pYrolysis & Biotechnology to Recycle mIxed plastic waste to Dicarboxylic acids (HYBRID)From1 Apr 2024 → TodayFunding: VLAIO CATALISTI - Cooperative research project
- Second generation lactic acid as a renewable platform for a circular bioeconomy (LAPLACE)From1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research (SBO)
- Mutational robustness and evolvability in model microbesFrom1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: Fund Recuperation Fiscal Exemption
- Development of a CRISPR-based tool for localized random mutagenesis of biosynthetic pathwaysFrom1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Unravelling the natural complexity of the protein biosynthesis pathway in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.From1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Engineering Yarrowia lipolytica for producing plant sterols(β-sitosterol)From10 Oct 2022 → 20 Dec 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Molecular determinants of the Crabtree effect in Saccharomyces cerevisiaeFrom29 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Engineering Yarrowia lipolytica for sustainable fat production for plant-based meat alternativesFrom20 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Production of non-alcoholic specialty beerFrom25 Aug 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Study of the impact of (non-)Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with a varying thermotolerance during the baking phase of the breadmaking processFrom19 Aug 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
1 - 10 of 218
- Combinatorial multigene expression optimization in yeast using site-specific recombination(2024)
Authors: Charlotte Cautereels, Kevin Verstrepen, Anton Gorkovskiy, Jan Steensels
- Orthogonal LoxPsym sites allow multiplexed site-specific recombination in prokaryotic and eukaryotic hosts(2024)
Authors: Charlotte Cautereels, Lloyd Cool, Jan Steensels, Anton Gorkovskiy, Kevin Verstrepen
- Combinatorial optimization of gene expression through recombinase-mediated promoter and terminator shuffling in yeast(2024)
Authors: Charlotte Cautereels, Dries De Ruysscher, Jan Steensels, Anton Gorkovskiy, Joleen Masschelein, Kevin Verstrepen
- Ethanol induces replication fork stalling and membrane stress in immortalized laryngeal cells(2023)
Authors: Lore Hoes, Karin Voordeckers, Rüveyda Dok, Bram Boeckx, Sander Govers, Diether Lambrechts, Sandra Nuyts, Kevin Verstrepen
- Characterizing the physiological effects of ethanol on eukaryotic cells(2023)
Authors: Lore Hoes, Kevin Verstrepen, Sandra Nuyts, Karin Voordeckers
- CoMuTER – a Cas3-base editing tool for targetable in vivo mutagenesis(2023)
Authors: Anna Zimmermann, Kevin Verstrepen
- Full-electric microfluidic platform to capture, analyze and selectively release single cells(2023)
Authors: Ruben Van den Eeckhoudt, An-Sofie Christiaens, Vasileios Vangalis, Kevin Verstrepen, Filip Tavernier, Michael Kraft, Irene Taurino
- Kevin J. Verstrepen(2023)
Authors: Kevin Verstrepen
Pages: R934 - R936 - Development of a tractable model system to study microbial community succession during wood-ageing of beer on a lab scale(2023)
Authors: Tin Kocijan, Filip Van Opstaele, Kevin Verstrepen, Gert De Rouck, Bart Lievens, Sam Crauwels
Pages: 73 - 91 - A Cas3-base editing tool for targetable in vivo mutagenesis(2023)
Authors: Anna Zimmermann, Charlotte Cautereels, Anton Gorkovskiy, Jan Steensels, Kevin Verstrepen
Patents
1 - 10 of 10
- Yeast strain development for ethanol production (Inventor)
- Means and methods to overrule glucose-mediated repression of respiration in yeast (Inventor)
- Reducing acetate ester production in yeast (Inventor)
- Yeast alleles involved in tolerance to high alcohol levels (Inventor)
- Yeast alleles involved in tolerance to high alcohol levels (Inventor)
- Means and methods to overrule glucose-mediated repression of respiration in yeast (Inventor)
- Wholemeal bread with reduced fodmap content (Inventor)
- Reducing acetate ester production in yeast (Inventor)
- Wholemeal bread with reduced fodmap content (Inventor)
- Reducing acetate ester production in yeast (Inventor)