Researcher
Jan Steensels
- Disciplines (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology):Auto-ecology, Biogeography and phylogeography, Anthropological genetics, Bacteriology, Biogeochemical cycli, Epigenomics
- Disciplines (KU Leuven):Industrial microbiology
Affiliations
- Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG) (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Verstrepen Lab (Research group)
Member
From1 Jan 2017 → Today - Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (Division)
Member
From1 Sep 2010 → 31 Jul 2020
Projects
1 - 5 of 5
- Engineering Yarrowia lipolytica for sustainable fat production for plant-based meat alternativesFrom20 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Pathway optimization through 'confined mutagenesis'From1 Oct 2020 → 30 Sep 2023Funding: FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship
- Developing a genetic toolbox to enable the rapid optimization of industrially-relevant traits in yeastFrom1 Oct 2018 → 29 Feb 2024Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Parallel optimization of complex industrial yeast traits using a highly evolvable artificial neochromosomeFrom1 Oct 2017 → 30 Sep 2020Funding: FWO fellowships
- Exploring natural and artificial diversity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for industrial fermentation processes.From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2016Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
Publications
1 - 10 of 48
- Combinatorial multigene expression optimization in yeast using site-specific recombination(2024)
Authors: Charlotte Cautereels, Kevin Verstrepen, Anton Gorkovskiy, Jan Steensels
- Combinatorial optimization of gene expression through recombinase-mediated promoter and terminator shuffling in yeast(2024)
Authors: Charlotte Cautereels, Jolien Smets, Dries De Ruysscher, Jan Steensels, Anton Gorkovskiy, Joleen Masschelein, Kevin Verstrepen
- Orthogonal LoxPsym sites allow multiplexed site-specific recombination in prokaryotic and eukaryotic hosts(2024)
Authors: Charlotte Cautereels, Jolien Smets, Lloyd Cool, Jan Steensels, Anton Gorkovskiy, Kevin Verstrepen
- A Cas3-base editing tool for targetable in vivo mutagenesis(2023)
Authors: Anna Zimmermann, Charlotte Cautereels, Anton Gorkovskiy, Jan Steensels, Kevin Verstrepen
- Breeding of New Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hybrids with Reduced Higher Alcohol Production for Light-Aroma-Type-Xiaoqu Baijiu Production(2023)
Authors: Jan Steensels, Kevin Verstrepen
Pages: 233 - 241 - Novel Saccharomyces cerevisiae variants slow down the accumulation of staling aldehydes and improve beer shelf-life(2023)
Authors: Ruben Wauters, Charlotte Cautereels, Jan Steensels, Kevin Verstrepen
- Exploiting long-lived yeast to improve beer shelf-life(2022)
Authors: Ruben Wauters, Kevin Verstrepen, Jan Steensels
- Massive QTL analysis identifies pleiotropic genetic determinants for stress resistance, aroma formation, and ethanol, glycerol and isobutanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae(2021)
Authors: Beatriz Herrera, Jan Steensels, Kevin Verstrepen
- The Pupal Parasitoid Trichopria drosophilae Is Attracted to the Same Yeast Volatiles as Its Adult Host(2021)
Authors: Francine van Neerbos, Sofie Bossaert, Beatriz Herrera, Jan Steensels, Kevin Verstrepen, Hans Jacquemyn, Bart Lievens
Pages: 1 - 11 - Interspecific hybridization as a driver of fungal evolution and adaptation(2021)
Authors: Jan Steensels
Pages: 485 - 500
Patents
1 - 4 of 4
- Yeast strain development for ethanol production (Inventor)
- Reducing acetate ester production in yeast (Inventor)
- Reducing acetate ester production in yeast (Inventor)
- Reducing acetate ester production in yeast (Inventor)