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
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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
- 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
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- 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
- Metabolism: How a eukaryote adapted to life without respiration(2023)
Authors: Lloyd Cool, Samuel Hanon, Kevin Verstrepen
Pages: R444 - R447 - 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
- A table-top sensor for the detection of hydrophobins and yeasts in brewery applications(2022)
Authors: Wouter Stilman, Gideon Wackers, Mehran Khorshid, Jeroen Vereman, Peter Cornelis, Jan Van Impe, Kevin Verstrepen, Patrick Wagner
- Genome-wide base editor screen identifies regulators of protein abundance in yeast(2022)
Authors: Kevin Verstrepen
- Do microbes have a memory? History-dependent behavior in the adaptation to variable environments(2022)
Authors: Lieselotte Vermeersch, Lloyd Cool, Anton Gorkovskiy, Karin Voordeckers, Tom Wenseleers, Kevin Verstrepen
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Model System for Eukaryotic Cell Biology, from Cell Cycle Control to DNA Damage Response(2022)
Authors: Rüveyda Dok, Karin Voordeckers, Sandra Nuyts, Kevin Verstrepen
- Permissive aggregative group formation favors coexistence between cooperators and defectors in yeast(2022)
Authors: Tom Belpaire, Jiri Pesek, Bram Lories, Kevin Verstrepen, Hans Steenackers, Herman Ramon, Bart Smeets
Pages: 2305 - 2312
Patents
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- 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)