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Latest papers
Global Probiotic Markets Meet Synthetic Biology: Translational Challenges and Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 as a Model Chassis.
Microorganisms · 2026 · senior author
The Athlete Gut Microbiome: A Narrative Review of Multi-Omics Insights and Next-Generation Probiotic Strategies.
Nutrients · 2025 · senior author
Model-Based Optimization of a qCRISPRi Circuit for Dynamic Control of Metabolic Pathways.
ACS synthetic biology · 2025
Latest funding
- $70,000
Engineering Lactobacillus rhamnosus for Polylactic Acid Production from Agri-Food Waste
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $15,000
Development of a probiotic that metabolizes ethanol
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $467,000
GC: CIRCLE: Centre for Innovative Recycling and Circular Economy
NSERC · 2024 · Co-investigator
8 publications.
Global Probiotic Markets Meet Synthetic Biology: Translational Challenges and Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 as a Model Chassis.
Chen J, Chou CP, Liu Y
The Athlete Gut Microbiome: A Narrative Review of Multi-Omics Insights and Next-Generation Probiotic Strategies.
Li Z, Li Y, Wang Y, Chen J, Liu Y
Model-Based Optimization of a qCRISPRi Circuit for Dynamic Control of Metabolic Pathways.
Golla SA, Abo-Hashesh M, Gupta D, Liu Y, Mahadevan R
Engineered Therapeutic Bacteria with High-Yield Membrane Vesicle Production Inspired by Eukaryotic Membrane Curvature for Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Chen J, Liu M, Chen S, Chou CP, Liu H, Wu D, Liu Y
Manipulating Intracellular Oxidative Conditions to Enhance Porphyrin Production in Escherichia coli.
Arab B, Moo-Young M, Liu Y, Chou CP
Harnessing synthetic biology to empower a circular plastics economy.
Yip A, Weldon M, Dharmasiddhi I, Zubrzycki B, Euler C, Prince E, Liu Y, Ingalls B, Aucoin MG
A single-plasmid-based, easily curable CRISPR/Cas9 system for rapid, iterative genome editing in Pseudomonas putida KT2440.
Wen Q, Chen J, Li J, Dharmasiddhi IPW, Yang M, Xing J, Liu Y
Genetic Engineering of Acidithiobacillus ferridurans Using CRISPR Systems To Mitigate Toxic Release in Biomining.
Chen J, Liu Y, Mahadevan R
Engineering Lactobacillus rhamnosus for Polylactic Acid Production from Agri-Food Waste
Principal investigators: Liu, Yilan
Keywords: Waste, waste management and recycling; Environment
Development of a probiotic that metabolizes ethanol
Principal investigators: Liu, Yilan YL
Keywords: evolution; genome editing; hangover; metabolic disease; metabolic engineering; probiotics
GC: CIRCLE: Centre for Innovative Recycling and Circular Economy
Principal investigators: Euler, Christian CKE
Keywords: agricultural waste; bioeconomy; biopolymers; carbon dioxide utilization; circular economy; computational protein design; metagenomics; microbial consortia; plastics; upcycling
GC: CIRCLE: Centre for Innovative Recycling and Circular Economy
Principal investigators: Euler, Christian K.
Keywords: circular economy; upcycling; plastics; agricultural waste; carbon dioxide utilization; biopolymers; microbial consortia; metagenomics; computational protein design; bioeconomy
Novel strain engineering and bioprocessing strategies for microbial production of heme and its porphyrin precursors
Principal investigators: Chou, C Perry CP
Keywords: biocatalyst; bioprocess engineering; escherichia coli; genetic engineering; heme; metabolic engineering; porphyrin; synthetic biology; tetrapyrrole
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Radhakrishnan Mahadevan and Yilan Liu: 2 shared papers
- Murray Moo-Young and Yilan Liu: 1 shared paper
- Elisabeth Prince and Christian Euler: 1 shared paper
- Elisabeth Prince and Yilan Liu: 1 shared paper
- Christian Euler and Yilan Liu: 1 shared paper
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
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