Dr. Andreas Schmid
professor
Department of Solar Materials
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Germany
Biography
The microbiologist is heading the Department Solar Materials (SOMA) at the UFZ in Leipzig. He is also Professor for Biotechnology at the University of Leipzig. His research focuses on sustainable chemicals production and photosynthesis. Using their expertise in the design of biocatalysts, he and his team develop microbial catalysts (cyanobacteria) for producing fuels and value-added products from sunlight and carbon dioxide. He is also interested in single cell analysis, microreactors, catalytic biofilms and systems biotechnology. A unique feature of SOMA is a broad and closely interconnected methodology linking microbiology and chemistry with genetic and biochemical engineering. The SOMA Department is coordinating the Centre for Biocatalysis
Research Interest
Photobiotechnology, single cell analysis, nano- and microreactors, catalytic biofilms, (continuous) redox biocatalysis using whole cells and isolated enzymes, highly productive and specific oxyfunctionalizations of hydrocarbons by means of microbial cells, systems biotechnology in Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas putida and yeast, sustainability.
Publications
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Theodosiou, E., Breisch, M., Julsing, M.K., Falcioni, F., Bühler, B., Schmid, A., (2017): An artificial TCA cycle selects for efficient α-ketoglutarate dependent hydroxylase catalysis in engineered Escherichia coli Biotechnol. Bioeng. 114 (7), 1511 - 1520
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Kadisch, M., Schmid, A., Bühler, B., (2017): Hydrolase BioH knockout in E. coli enables efficient fatty acid methyl ester bioprocessing J. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 44 (3), 339 - 351
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Kadisch, M., Julsing, M.K., Schrewe, M., Jehmlich, N., Scheer, B., von Bergen, M., Schmid, A., Bühler, B., (2017): Maximization of cell viability rather than biocatalyst activity improves whole-cell ω-oxyfunctionalization performance Biotechnol. Bioeng. 114 (4), 874 - 884
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Halan, B., Vassilev, I., Lang, K., Schmid, A., Buehler, K., (2017): Growth of Pseudomonas taiwanensis VLB120ΔC biofilms in the presence of n-butanol Microb. Biotechnol. 10 (4), 745 - 755
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Fritzsch, F.S.O., Blank, L.M., Dusny, C., Schmid, A., (2017): Miniaturized octupole cytometry for cell type independent trapping and analysis Microfluid. Nanofluid. 21 (8), art. 130
