Pauli Kallio
University of Turku, Finland
Biography
Pauli Kallio has completed his PhD at the Department of Biochemistry at University of Turku, Finland (2008), studying the secondary metabolic pathways and enzyme-level determinants behind the diversity of bioactive compounds in Streptomyces bacteria. Currently he leads a Synthetic Biology Group in the Plant Molecular Biology Unit at the University of Turku, funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation (Tekes), with a focus on biofuel research and synthetic biology applications in photosynthetic cyanobacteria. His primary fields of expertise include molecular biology, in vitro enzymology and bacterial metabolic engineering.