Researcher
Johan Thevelein
- Disciplines:Biomaterials engineering, Biological system engineering, Biomechanical engineering, Other (bio)medical engineering, Environmental engineering and biotechnology, Industrial biotechnology, Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering
Affiliations
- Molecular Biotechnology of Plants and Micro-organisms (Division)
Member
From1 Feb 2017 → 30 Sep 2020
Projects
1 - 10 of 25
- Development of a superior industrial yeast strain for consolidated bioprocessing of lignocellulosic biomassFrom23 Sep 2019 → 5 Mar 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Engineering of a second-generation Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain for the production of 2,3-butanediol from biomassFrom1 Oct 2018 → 17 Apr 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- SPICY - Sugar-based chemicals and Polymers through Innovative Chemocatalysis and engineered YeastFrom1 Feb 2018 → 31 Jul 2022Funding: VLAIO CATALISTI - Cooperative research project
- Unraveling the polygenic basis of HMF and furfural tolerance in yeast for optimization of lignocellulose-based processesFrom15 Oct 2015 → 4 Nov 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Induction of programmed cell death by synergistic modulation of glycolytic flux and Ras activity in yeast and cancer cellsFrom14 Sep 2015 → 9 Jul 2021Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- ARBOREF: integrated 'lignin first' biorefineryFrom1 Apr 2015 → 31 Mar 2019Funding: IWT / VLAIO - FISCH /Catalisti vzw
- Development of a xylose-utilizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell factory for the production of muconic acid and protocatechuic acidFrom13 Jan 2015 → 11 Jan 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Heterologous polygenic trait analysis using genomic degeneration mutagenesis of species hybrids.From1 Jan 2015 → 20 May 2020Funding: IWT personal funding - strategic basic research grants
- Development of superior industrial yeast strains by polygenic modification.From1 Jan 2015 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: SBO (Strategic basic research)
- Conferring lignocellulolytic capacity to a superior industrial yeast strain for second-generation bioethanol production.From1 Jan 2015 → 23 Jun 2020Funding: IWT personal funding - strategic basic research grants
Publications
21 - 30 of 157
- Whole-Genome Transformation Promotes tRNA Anticodon Suppressor Mutations under Stress(2021)
Authors: Quinten Deparis, Johan Thevelein
- Nutrient sensing and cAMP signaling in yeast: G-protein coupled receptor versus transceptor activation of PKA(2021)
Authors: Liesbeth Demuyser, Ines Cottignie, Johan Thevelein
Pages: 17 - 27 - Nutrient transceptors physically interact with the yeast S6/protein kinase B homolog, Sch9, a TOR kinase target(2021)
Authors: Ines Cottignie, Johan Thevelein
Pages: 357 - 375 - Nutrient transceptor signalling and control of yeast cell growth(2020)
Authors: Zhiqiang Zhang, Kevin Verstrepen, Johan Thevelein
- Unraveling the polygenic basis of HMF and furfural tolerance in yeast for optimization of lignocellulose-based processes(2020)
Authors: Gert Vanmarcke, Kevin Verstrepen, Johan Thevelein, Maria Remedios Foulquié Moreno
- SLC26A11 implicated in a new sulfate transport disease(2020)
Authors: Smrithi Salian, Tuyet Mai Nguyen Thi, Justine Rousseau, Julie Gauthier, Jacques L Michaud, Benjamin Ellezam, Peter Glavas, Marie Laberge-Malo, Antonio Rossi, Johan Thevelein, et al.
Pages: 107 - 107 - Construction of new industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for lignocellulosic bioethanol production(2020)
Authors: Edgard Valdomiro Charles Belo, Kevin Verstrepen, Johan Thevelein, Maria Remedios Foulquié Moreno
- Aberrant Intracellular pH Regulation Limiting Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Activity in the Glucose-Sensitive Yeast tps1 Delta Mutant(2020)
Authors: Ward Vanthienen, Stefanie Wijnants, Johan Thevelein
- Polygenic analysis of very high acetic acid tolerance in the yeastSaccharomyces cerevisiaereveals a complex genetic background and several new causative alleles(2020)
Authors: Johan Thevelein
- Identification of novel alleles conferring acetic acid tolerance in yeast using different experimental approaches(2020)
Authors: Marija Stojiljkovic, Johan Thevelein
Patents
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- Means and methods to modulate acetic acid tolerance in industrial fermentations (Inventor)
- Means and methods to modulate acetic acid tolerance in industrial fermentations (Inventor)
- Means and methods to improve yeast fermentation efficiency (Inventor)
- Causative genes conferring acetic acid tolerance in yeast (Inventor)
- Means and methods to modulate flavor production in yeast fermentations (Inventor)
- Wholemeal bread with reduced fodmap content (Inventor)
- Causative genes conferring acetic acid tolerance in yeast (Inventor)
- Means and methods to modulate probiotic potency of the yeast saccharomyces boulardii (Inventor)
- Means and methods to modulate flavor production in yeast fermentations (Inventor)
- Causative genes conferring acetic acid tolerance in yeast (Inventor)