Researcher
Wim Soetaert
- Keywords:Industrial biotechnology, Biosurfactants, Human milk oligosaccharides, Metabolic engineering, Synthetic biology
- Disciplines:Proteins, Other biological sciences not elsewhere classified, Industrial molecular engineering of nucleic acids and proteins, Industrial biotechnology diagnostics, Industrial microbiology, Bioprocessing, bioproduction and bioproducts, Industrial biotechnology not elsewhere classified, Fermentation, Biocatalysis and enzyme technology, Synthetic biology, Carbohydrates, Microbiology not elsewhere classified, Transcription and translation, Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering not elsewhere classified, Regulation of metabolism, Genetics
Affiliations
- Department of Biotechnology (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2018 → Today - Department of Biochemical and microbial technology (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2002 → 31 Dec 2017
Projects
1 - 10 of 59
- From lab to industry: a metabolomics perspective to efficient sophorolipid synthesisFrom1 Nov 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- From insight to industry: investigating and exploiting the sophorolipid pathway of Starmerella bombicolaFrom1 Nov 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Cupriavidus necator: an industrial omnivore (CUPRO)From1 Oct 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research (SBO)
- Improving carbon fixation in Cupriavidus necator through clustering and process intensification (ICONIC)From1 Apr 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO thematic call for applied research
- Novel specialty sugar enzymes and products through metagenomicsFrom1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Microbial production of iminosugarsFrom1 Nov 2023 → 31 May 2024Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- GREEN-B2B-2: Acid Catalyzed Production of Green Butadiene from ButanediolsFrom1 Jun 2023 → TodayFunding: Flanders Industry Innovation Moonshot Strategic Basic Research for clusters (cSBO)
- ECHO – Engineering Cupriavidus necator for the Hydrogen-efficient production of a pyrOne building block from industrial gas streamsFrom1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO Thematic call for research projects in the field of bioeconomy
- Efficient biosynthesis of innovative branched sophorolipids through elucidation and engineering of the biosynthetic pathway.From1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Characterization of multidomain enzymes to enable microbial production of specialty carbohydratesFrom1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
Publications
1 - 10 of 238
- Bubbling insights : unveiling the true sophorolipid biosynthetic pathway by Starmerella bombicola(2024)
Authors: Sophie Roelants, Stijn Bovijn, Elvira Bytyqi, Nicolas de Fooz, Goedele Luyten, Martijn Castelein, Thibo Van de Craen, Zhoujian Diao, Karolien Maes, Tom Delmulle, et al.
- Revision of the sophorolipid biosynthetic pathway in Starmerella bombicola based on new insights in the substrate profile of its lactone esterase(2024)
Authors: Zhoujian Diao, Sophie Roelants, Goedele Luyten, Jan Goeman, Isabel Vandenberghe, Gonzalez Van Driessche, Sofie De Maeseneire, Wim Soetaert, Bart Devreese
- Tuning the antimicrobial activity of microbial glycolipid biosurfactants through chemical modification(2024)
Authors: Melike Pala, Martijn Castelein, Camille Dewaele, Sophie Roelants, Wim Soetaert, Christian Stevens
- Universal at-line microbial fermentation monitoring through advances in rapid ambient ionisation mass spectrometry-based metabolomics(2023)
Authors: Nicolas de Fooz, Marilyn De Graeve, Pablo Vangeenderhuysen, Karolien Maes, Sophie Roelants, Sofie De Maeseneire, Wim Soetaert, Lynn Vanhaecke
Number of pages: 1 - An exploratory in silico comparison of open-source codon harmonization tools(2023)
Authors: Thomas Willems, Wim Hectors, Jeltien Rombaut, Anne-Sofie De Rop, Stijn Goegebeur, Tom Delmulle, Maarten De Mol, Sofie De Maeseneire, Wim Soetaert
- Single-cell protein production from industrial off-gas through acetate : techno-economic analysis for a coupled fermentation approach(2023)
Authors: Elodie Vlaeminck, Evelien Uitterhaegen, Koen Quataert, Tom Delmulle, Stoilas-Stylianos Kontovas, Nikiforos Misailidis, Rafael G. Ferreira, Demetri Petrides, Karel De Winter, Wim Soetaert
- Challenges and progress towards industrial recombinant protein production in yeasts : a review(2023)
Authors: Pieter De Brabander, Evelien Uitterhaegen, Tom Delmulle, Karel De Winter, Wim Soetaert
- Acidic sophorolipid and antimicrobial peptide based formulation as antimicrobial and antibiofilm agents(2023)
Authors: Sahadevan Seena, Rafaela Ferrão, Melike Pala, Sophie Roelants, Wim Soetaert, Christian Stevens, Lino Ferreira, Akhilesh Rai
- Improved production of novel (bola) glycolipid biosurfactants with the yeast Starmerella bombicola through an integrative approach combining genetic engineering and multiomics analyses(2023)Series: Foundations and Frontiers in Enzymology
Authors: Martijn Castelein, Nicolas de Fooz, Goedele Luyten, Lisa Van Renterghem, Sven Dierickx, Stijn Bovijn, Sophie Roelants, Lynn Vanhaecke, Wim Soetaert, Gloria Soberón-Chávez
Pages: 183 - 202 - MariClus : your one-stop platform for information on marine natural products, their gene clusters and producing organisms(2023)
Authors: Cedric Hermans, Maarten De Mol, Marieke Mispelaere, Anne-Sofie De Rop, Jeltien Rombaut, Tesneem Nusayr, Rebecca Creamer, Sofie De Maeseneire, Wim Soetaert, Paco Hulpiau
Patents
1 - 7 of 7
- Efficient synthesis of sophorosides via ozonolysis (Inventor)
- Trehalose phosphorylases and their use in the biocatalytic production of trehalose-analogues and glycosyl phosphates (Inventor)
- Improved production of symmetrical bolaform sophorosides (Inventor)
- Improved production of symmetrical bolaform sophorosides (Inventor)
- Lactonase derived from Candida bombicola and uses thereof (Inventor)
- Yeast strains modified in their sophorolipid production and uses thereof (Inventor)
- Methods to produce bolaamphiphilic glycolipids (Inventor)