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Dirk Weuster-Botz is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research extensively covers the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a substantial focus on Engineering as well. The scientist's work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering.

They explore a variety of topics, primarily concentrating on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Algal biology and biofuel production, Biofuel production and bioconversion, Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects, Enzyme Structure and Function, Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization, and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation.

Recent publications by Dirk Weuster-Botz include:

  • Lab-scale photobioreactor systems: principles, applications, and scalability, 2022, Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering
  • Artificial microbial consortia for bioproduction processes, 2022, Engineering in Life Sciences
  • Studies on Syngas Fermentation With Clostridium carboxidivorans in Stirred-Tank Reactors With Defined Gas Impurities, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Production of β-carotene with Dunaliella salina CCAP19/18 at physically simulated outdoor conditions, 2020, Engineering in Life Sciences
  • Synthetic co-culture of autotrophic Clostridium carboxidivorans and chain elongating Clostridium kluyveri monitored by flow cytometry, 2021, Microbial Biotechnology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Dirk Weuster-Botz are:

  • Thomas Brück
  • Daniel Bischoff
  • Brigitte Walla
  • Nikolas von den Eichen
  • Miriam Bäumler

Dirk Weuster-Botz has published regularly in several venues, with notable frequent contributions to:

  • Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering
  • Chemie Ingenieur Technik
  • Microorganisms
  • Fermentation
  • Applied Sciences

Best Publications

  • Succinic acid from renewable resources as a C4 building-block chemical—a review of the catalytic possibilities in aqueous media

    Clara Delhomme;Dirk Weuster-Botz;Fritz E. Kühn

  • Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the biotechnological production of succinic acid.

    Andreas M. Raab;Gabi Gebhardt;Natalia Bolotina;Dirk Weuster-Botz

  • Experimental design for fermentation media development: statistical design or global random search?

    Dirk Weuster-Botz

  • Automated sampling device for monitoring intracellular metabolite dynamics.

    U. Schaefer;W. Boos;R. Takors;D. Weuster-Botz

  • Recovery of succinic acid from fermentation broth

    Tanja Kurzrock;Dirk Weuster-Botz

  • Water immiscible ionic liquids as solvents for whole cell biocatalysis

    Holger Pfruender;Ross Jones;Dirk Weuster-Botz

  • Efficient Whole-Cell Biotransformation in a Biphasic Ionic Liquid/Water System†

    Holger Pfruender;Maya Amidjojo;Udo Kragl;Dirk Weuster-Botz

  • Development, parallelization, and automation of a gas-inducing milliliter-scale bioreactor for high-throughput bioprocess design (HTBD).

    R. Puskeiler;K. Kaufmann;D. Weuster-Botz

  • Selective enhancement of autotrophic acetate production with genetically modified Acetobacterium woodii.

    Melanie Straub;Martin Demler;Dirk Weuster-Botz;Peter Dürre

  • Reaction engineering analysis of hydrogenotrophic production of acetic acid by Acetobacterium woodii

    Martin Demler;Dirk Weuster-Botz

  • Using gas mixtures of CO, CO2 and H2 as microbial substrates: the do's and don'ts of successful technology transfer from laboratory to production scale

    Ralf Takors;Michael Kopf;Joerg Mampel;Wilfried Bluemke

  • Bacterial Anaerobic Synthesis Gas (Syngas) and CO2+H2 Fermentation.

    Frank R. Bengelsdorf;Matthias H. Beck;Catarina Erz;Sabrina Hoffmeister

  • Continuous gas fermentation by Acetobacterium woodii in a submerged membrane reactor with full cell retention.

    Christina Kantzow;Alexander Mayer;Dirk Weuster-Botz

  • Efficient Production of Single-Stranded Phage DNA as Scaffolds for DNA Origami.

    Benjamin Kick;Florian Praetorius;Hendrik Dietz;Dirk Weuster-Botz

  • Whole-cell biocatalysis: Evaluation of new hydrophobic ionic liquids for efficient asymmetric reduction of prochiral ketones

    Stefan Bräutigam;Danielle Dennewald;Melanie Schürmann;Jeffrey Lutje-Spelberg

  • Asymmetric whole cell biotransformations in biphasic ionic liquid/water-systems by use of recombinant Escherichia coli with intracellular cofactor regeneration

    Stefan Bräutigam;Stephanie Bringer-Meyer;Dirk Weuster-Botz

  • Medium Optimization by Genetic Algorithm for Continuous Production of Formate Dehydrogenase

    D. Weuster-Botz;C. Wandrey

  • New reactive extraction systems for separation of bio-succinic acid

    Tanja Kurzrock;Dirk Weuster-Botz

  • Human chymotrypsinogen B production with Pichia pastoris by integrated development of fermentation and downstream processing. Part 1. Fermentation.

    Simon Curvers;Peter Brixius;Thomas Klauser;Jörg Thömmes

  • Modifying the product pattern of Clostridium acetobutylicum Physiological effects of disrupting the acetate and acetone formation pathways

    Dörte Lehmann;Daniel Hönicke;Armin Ehrenreich;Michael Schmidt

  • Parallel substrate feeding and pH-control in shaking-flasks

    Dirk Weuster-Botz;Jutta Altenbach-Rehm;Matthias Arnold

  • Miniature bioreactors for automated high-throughput bioprocess design (HTBD): reproducibility of parallel fed-batch cultivations with Escherichia coli.

    Robert Puskeiler;Andreas Kusterer;Gernot T. John;Dirk Weuster-Botz

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Wandrey
Christian Wandrey Forschungszentrum Jülich
Georg A. Sprenger
Georg A. Sprenger University of Stuttgart
Wolfgang Wiechert
Wolfgang Wiechert Forschungszentrum Jülich
Rolf D. Schmid
Rolf D. Schmid University of Stuttgart
Michael W. I. Schmidt
Michael W. I. Schmidt University of Zurich
Fritz E. Kühn
Fritz E. Kühn Technical University of Munich
Wolfgang Liebl
Wolfgang Liebl Technical University of Munich
Peter Dürre
Peter Dürre University of Ulm
Wilfried Schwab
Wilfried Schwab Technical University of Munich
Werner Hummel
Werner Hummel Bielefeld University

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