Welcome to the Pfleger Lab‽
We are multi-disciplined team of researchers focused on using metabolic engineering techniques to produce value-added fuels and chemicals. With backgrounds ranging from chemical engineering to molecular biology, we are well equipped to create a variety of solutions to any research problem. We are currently working on a variety of projects in different organisms, including Escherichia coli, yeast and cyanobacteria. Led by Professor Brian Pfleger, we hope to solve relevant societal problems using our expertise in synthetic biology.
Recent News
Congratulations to three new PhDs from the Pfleger lab
Its hard to believe, but this fall saw three talented students complete their theses. We will miss Dylan, Francesca, and Boomer. Each of you has contributed in unique ways and your leadership will be sorely …
Pfleger Lab Welcomes New PhD Student
Welcome to the lab, Anna Mangus. We look forward to your future protein and metabolic engineering work.
Welcome to New Postdocs!!!
The Pfleger lab is glad to welcome Shivangi Mishra and Ted Chavkin as new postdocs to the lab. Good luck to both.
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Selected Publications
- Yan Q, Cordell WT, Pfleger BF. Metabolic engineering strategies to produce medium chain oleochemicals via acyl-ACP:CoA transacylase activity. Nature Communications. (2022) DOI: 1038/s41467-022-29218-3
- Gambacorta FV, Wagner ER, Jacobson TB, Tremaine M, Muehlbauer LK, McGee MA, Baerwald JJ, Wrobel RL, Wolters JF, Place M, Dietrich JJ, Xie D, Serate J, Gajbhiyea S, Liu L, Vang-Smith M, Coon JJ Zhang Y, Gasch AP, Amador-Noguez D, Hittinger CT, Sato TK, Pfleger BF. Comparative functional genomics identifies an iron-limited bottleneck in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain with a cytosolic-localized isobutanol pathway. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 7 (2), 738-749 (2022) DOI: 1016/j.synbio.2022.02.007
- Gambacorta FV, Dietrich JJ, Baerwald JJ, Brown SJ, Su Y, Pfleger BF. Combinatorial library design for improving isobutanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 10:1080024 (2022) DOI 3389/fbioe.2022.1080024
- Greenhalgh J, Falberg SA, Pfleger BF, Romero PA. Machine learning-guided acyl-ACP reductase engineering for improved in vivo fatty alcohol production. Nature Communications. (2021) Oct 5;12(1):5825. doi: 1038/s41467-021-25831-w
- Biggs BW, Alper HS, Pfleger BF, Tyo KEJ, Santos CNS, Ajikumar PK, Stephanopoulos G. Enabling commercial success of industrial biotechnology. Science. (2021) Dec 24;374(6575):1563-1565. doi: 1126/science.abj5040