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
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
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Projects
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- 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
- Integrated Strategy for Microbial Production of Lactic Acid and Ethyl Lactate from 2G FeedstockFrom28 Sep 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- 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
Publications
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- Mutational robustness and the role of buffer genes in evolvability(2024)
Authors: Karin Voordeckers, Piet van den Berg, Sander Govers, Jan Michiels, Kevin Verstrepen
Pages: 906 - 924 - Radiobiology of Proton Therapy in Human Papillomavirus-Negative and Human Papillomavirus-Positive Head and Neck Cancer Cells(2024)
Authors: Rüveyda Dok, Kevin Verstrepen, Sandra Nuyts
- Predicting and improving complex beer flavor through machine learning.(2024)
Authors: Lloyd Cool, Christophe Vanderaa, Tom Wenseleers, Kevin Verstrepen
Pages: 2368 - Rational evolution for altering the ligand preference of estrogen receptor alpha(2024)
Authors: Xiao Yin Lee, Anton Gorkovskiy, Karin Voordeckers, Els Henckaerts, Vitor Bernardes Pinheiro, Frank Claessens, Kevin Verstrepen, Arnout Voet, Christine Helsen
- Mutagenesis techniques for evolutionary engineering of microbes – exploiting CRISPR-Cas, oligonucleotides, recombinases, and polymerases(2024)
Authors: Julian Prieto Vivas, Karin Voordeckers, Kevin Verstrepen
- 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
- 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
Patents
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- Yeast strain development for ethanol production (Inventor)
- Yeast alleles involved in tolerance to high alcohol levels (Inventor)
- Reducing acetate ester production in yeast (Inventor)
- Means and methods to overrule glucose-mediated repression of respiration in yeast (Inventor)
- Yeast alleles involved in tolerance to high alcohol levels (Inventor)
- Wholemeal bread with reduced fodmap content (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)
- Reducing acetate ester production in yeast (Inventor)