Systems and Synthetic Biology

Biography

Roberto Mazzoli has completed his PhD in 2003 and, since 2011, has been assistant professor in biochemistry at the University of Turin (Italy). Since 1998, he has been studying the metabolism of microorganisms aimed at industrial processes. Since 2006, his main research activity has concerned metabolic engineering of microorganisms for cellulosic consolidated biorefinery. He’s the PI of the group of Proteomics and Metabolic Engineering of Prokaryotes at DBIOS, University of Turin. He has published 21 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 1 book chapter and 2 international patents and is serving as editorial board member or reviewer for several reputed journals.

Research Interest

Research focus is mainly on engineering of recombinant cellulolytic microorganisms for application in single-step fermentation (consolidated bioprocessing) of cellulosic biomass into industrially relevant products (e.g. fuels, plastic monomers). Metabolic engineering strategies used include both: i) native cellulolytic strategies, aimed at improving product formation properties in native cellulolytic microorganisms; ii) recombinant cellulolytic strategies, aimed at conferring cellulose metabolization features in microorganisms naturally producing high-value compounds (ethanol, butanol, lactic acid, etc…).