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My group is interested in controlling the movement of materials across biological membranes, with a goal of enabling and enhancing the production of pharmaceuticals, biofuels, and materials in microbes. Manipulating the transport of electrons, small molecules, and even signals across these cellular boundaries is a vital component of most synthetic biology applications, and we are developing the tools and methods to engineer membrane proteins and other protein superstructures to meet this grand challenge.
Education/Academic qualification
Chemical Engineering, PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
… → 2006
Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Grants 2016 2023
The impact of organizational strategy on performance of in vitro biosynthesis reactions
5/15/19 → 5/14/22
Project: Research project
Metabolic Networks and Pathways
Propylene Glycols
Synthetic Biology
Metabolic Engineering
Bioengineering
RoL: RAISE: DESYN-C3: A platform for Modular Pseudo-Organelles for Compartmentalization and Control of Pseudo-Cell Processes
Bagheri, N., Ercek, D. T. & Kamat, N. P.
9/15/18 → 8/31/23
Project: Research project
Chassis
Communication
Metabolism
Networks (circuits)
Employing bacterial microcompartments to create privileged redox pools for biofuel production
9/15/18 → 9/14/21
Project: Research project
Biofuels
Metabolism
Recycling
Enzymes
Metabolic engineering
GOALI: Advanced biomanufacturing with inducible feedback promoters
Ercek, D. T., Lucks, J. B. & Tyo, K. E. J.
9/1/18 → 8/31/21
Project: Research project
Metabolic Networks and Pathways
Synthetic Biology
Metabolic Engineering
1-Butanol
Terpenes
biology
networking
student
engineering
communication
Research Output 2003 2019
Cargo encapsulation in bacterial microcompartments: Methods and analysis
Nichols, T. M., Kennedy, N. W. & Ercek, D. T., Jan 1 2019, Methods in Enzymology. Academic Press Inc., p. 155-186 32 p. (Methods in Enzymology; vol. 617).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Propylene Glycol
Encapsulation
Scaffolds
Organizations
Metabolic engineering
2
Citations
(Scopus)
Experimental Evaluation of Coevolution in a Self-Assembling Particle
Hartman, E. C., Lobba, M. J., Favor, A. H., Robinson, S. A., Francis, M. B. & Ercek, D. T., Mar 19 2019, In : Biochemistry. 58, 11, p. 1527-1538 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Viruses
Virion
Self assembly
Mutation
Proteins
Learning from protein fitness landscapes: a review of mutability, epistasis, and evolution
Hartman, E. C. & Ercek, D. T., Apr 1 2019, In : Current Opinion in Systems Biology. 14, p. 25-31 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Epistasis
Fitness Landscape
Learning
Proteins
Protein
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Systematic Engineering of a Protein Nanocage for High-Yield, Site-Specific Modification
Brauer, D. D., Hartman, E. C., Bader, D. L. V., Merz, Z. N., Ercek, D. T. & Francis, M. B., Mar 6 2019, In : Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141, 9, p. 3875-3884 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Protein Engineering
Proteins
Virion
Libraries
Levivirus
An estimate is worth about a thousand experiments: Using order-of-magnitude estimates to identify cellular engineering targets
Metcalf, K. J., Slininger Lee, M. F., Jakobson, C. M. & Ercek, D. T., Aug 30 2018, In : Microbial Cell Factories. 17, 1, 135.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Cell Engineering
Intuition
Biological systems
Drug products
Glucose