Institut für Systembiotechnologie

Welcome at the Institute of Systems Biotechnology

Biotechnology has the potential to revolutionize industrial production - the team headed by Prof. Christoph Wittmann works in the heart of this exciting development. We design and develop cell factories to tailor the synthesis of valuable products - high-end healthcare ingredients, large volume platform chemicals, and smart bio-materials. For this we optimize metabolic pathways and their control in microorganisms and equip them even with new abilities – our leading approaches of systems metabolic engineering and synthetic biology make this possible. Furthermore, we use our "synthetic bugs" to develop innovative, environmentally friendly value chains. The synthesis of the future uses renewable raw materials - we too.

Latest Publications

  • Shu W, Rückert-Reed C, Gromyko O, Tistechok S, Kalinowski J, Luzhetskyy A, Wittmann C (2025)

    Description of Streptomyces explomaris sp. nov., isolated from the coastal soil rhizosphere of Juniperus excelsa and reclassification of Streptomyces libani as later heterotypic synonym of Streptomyces nigrescens.

    Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. In press.

  • Wijaya AJ, Dolan SK, Kohlstedt M, Gläser L, Brear P, Geddis S, Wittmann C, Spring DR, Welch M (2025)

    The 2-methylcitrate cycle and the glyoxylate shunt in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are linked through enzymatic redundancy.

    J. Biol. Chem. In press.

  • Weimer A, Pause L, Ries F, Kohlstedt M, Lorenz A, Krömer JO, Lai B, Wittmann C (2024)

    Systems biology of electrogenic Pseudomonas putida - multi-omics insights and metabolic engineering for enhanced 2-ketogluconate production.

                                           Microb. Cell Fact. 23:246. PUBMED.

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