Wissenschaftliches Personal - PhD Position (Scholarship) in Biocatalysis & Enzyme Engineering

Job opening at TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability: PhD position (scholarship) in Biocatalysis & Enzyme Engineering Project: The project deals with the production of fuels and chemicals by a synthetic enzymatic cascade reaction. Four doctoral candidates from TUM and the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia will cooperate to optimize four enzymes of a previously designed cascade reaction required to convert glucose to isobutanol. To achieve this goal, we will be using structural and mechanistic insight in combination with bioinformatics tools (molecular design and sequence reconstruction) and experimental approaches (high throughput techniques and robotics) to rationally and semi-rationally design enzymes that have increased catalytic activity and stability. Optimized enzymes will then be used to reconstitute the cascade and to design an optimal reaction setup to maximize productivity and yield. The outcome will provide a blueprint for the cell-free enzymatic conversion of renewable raw material into value-added chemicals.