The Alper Lab
@LabAlper
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The Alper Lab strives to perform high-quality, reproducible research to make new tools for synthetic biology and metabolic engineering.
University of Texas, Austin
Joined August 2020
RT @ChEnected: In his lecture "Engineering Biology to Develop a Taste for Waste" at #AIChEAnnual October 29 in San Diego, Hal Alper will ad….
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New @NatureComms review on the challenges and opportunities for using bio-based approaches to solve the plastics problem. @TexasChE .
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Nature Communications - The way we generate and treat plastic waste is a key consideration in the transition from a take-make-waste model to a truly circular economy. Here, authors discuss their...
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Here we discuss challenges and opportunities for biobased degradation of plastics:.
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Nature Communications - The way we generate and treat plastic waste is a key consideration in the transition from a take-make-waste model to a truly circular economy. Here, authors discuss their...
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New robust (growth-phase and scale-independent) promoters for S. cerevisiae.
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New @NatureComms paper published today on the de novo production of a suite of halogenated molecules produced using E. coli. 26 halogenated compounds produced including many new-to-nature.
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Nature Communications - De novo fermentation and synthetic pathway construction for halogen-containing molecules remain relatively underexplored. Here, the authors report a mix-and-match co-culture...
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Recently we reported on a co-culture system enabled by Y. lipolytica to produce apigenin and isovitexin.
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RT @UTexasISSS: Meet @TexasChE student Angela Gordillo Sierra! She's from Bogota, Colombia & wants to pioneer developments in healthcare wh….
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We are thrilled to be working with @bit_Biome on a collaboration to find new plastic degrading enzymes and microbes! @soichirotsuda.
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RT @MichaelCJewett: A sustainable future is biological. How can we engineer biology to make what we need? We worked with @LabAlper @jgi to….
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Excited to see our collaboration with @MichaelCJewett @JGI published. Here we combine metabolic engineering with cell-free biology to produce pre-optimized, flux enhanced cell extracts for rapid prototyping of pathways.
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Our latest @NatureComms paper features a tripartite consortium for producing phenylpropanoids (including eugenol). Modular consortia can overcome enzyme promiscuity limitations. These consortia also work in Engineered Living Materials. @NelsonLabUW @NSF.
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RT @UCDavisIIFH: Our lab has been collaborating with the @LabAlper, @NelsonLabUW, and @AyokunleOlan among others to make engineered living….
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We're excited to announce the publication of our most recent article that utilizes microfluidic droplet screening to identify differential itaconic acid production phenotypes in yeast. Read it here:
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Microdroplet screening of microorganisms can improve the rate of strain selection and characterization within the canonical design–build–test paradigm. However, a full analysis of the microdroplet...
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Biomanufacturing Blasts Off to Support Space Missions and, Potentially, Life on Other Planets @DARPA @TexasChE @Contreras_Lab
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As the world's attention has turned back to space travel in recent years, logistics questions about how to pull off long missions, and maybe even someday life o
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