Principle investigator & project coordinator: Prof. Sven Panke
Team members: Dr. Tania Roberts, Aurellia Galliot
Expertise: Bioproduction, xenobiotics and enzyme evolution in E. coli.
Prof. Sven Panke is one of the European pioneers in the field of Synthetic biology with large expertise in enzyme and bioprocess engineering. He runs a state-of-the-art biotechnology laboratory at ETHZ and his team has pioneered generic methods in bacterial transport of xenobiotic molecules. Furthermore, they have vast experience in enzyme engineering and the design of bioprocesses for high value compounds. In the NEWmRNA project they focus on using E. coli as a machine to produce large amounts of mRNA that can be isolated with high purity.