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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- Optimal speed and heterogeneity of adaptation in fluctuating environmentsFrom14 Sep 2020 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- HiTMan: a versatile and flexible high-throughput microbe handler for automation of complex experimental procedures and rapid phenotypic characterizationFrom1 May 2020 → TodayFunding: FWO Large scale research infrastructure
- Investigating the cost-benefit relationship of the heterogeneous lag phase duration in yeastFrom13 Mar 2020 → 6 Jul 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Characterization of mutational robustness in yeastFrom31 Jan 2020 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- In vivo Directed Evolution of Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Using an Orthogonal DNA Replication SystemFrom1 Oct 2019 → 30 Sep 2021Funding: FWO fellowships
- Biomolecular crystallography of the volatile ester synthesizing enzymes of S. cerevisiae combined with computational protein redesign of its substrate specificityFrom27 Aug 2019 → 30 Jun 2020Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Development of methods for the quantitative detection of hydrophobins in barley and maltFrom31 Jan 2019 → 27 Feb 2023Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- An impedimetric dipstick sensor for the detection of hydrophobins in barley and malt extractsFrom1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2020Funding: IOF - Industrial Research Fund
- 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
- Identifying molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of ethanol on eukaryotic genome instabilityFrom1 Oct 2018 → 29 Nov 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
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- 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, 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
- 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
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)