Immunology and Microbiology Seminar: Harnessing bacteria for drug discovery: from bioprospecting to synthetic biology
Speaker: Prof. Sergey B. Zotchev
Speaker Address: University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Host: Ute Römling
Selected reading:
Genome-based bioprospecting of microbes for new therapeutics.
Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 2012 Dec;23(6):941-7
Genomics of sponge-associated Streptomyces spp. closely related to Streptomyces albus J1074: insights into marine adaptation and secondary metabolite biosynthesis potential.
PLoS ONE 2014 ;9(5):e96719
Engineering terpene biosynthesis in Streptomyces for production of the advanced biofuel precursor bisabolene.
ACS Synth Biol 2015 Apr;4(4):393-9
Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.
Nat. Chem. Biol. 2015 Sep;11(9):625-31
Development of a Biosensor Concept to Detect the Production of Cluster-Specific Secondary Metabolites.
ACS Synth Biol 2017 06;6(6):1026-1033
Contact person: Ute Römling