Associate Professor, Bioengineering
kyle.lauersen@kaust.edu.sa
Sustainable & Synthetic Biotechnology Group
Villegas-Valencia, M., Stark, M. R., Seger, M., Wellman, G. B., Overmans, S., Lammers, P. J., Rader, S. D., & Lauersen, K. J. (2025). A rapid CAT transformation protocol and nuclear transgene expression tools for metabolic engineering in Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D. New Biotechnology. 85, 39-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2024.12.001.
Goold, H. D., Moseley, J. L., & Lauersen, K. J. (2024). The synthetic future of algal genomes. Cell Genomics, 100505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100505
Gutiérrez, S., Overmans, S., Wellman, G. B., Samaras, V. G., Oviedo, C., Gede, M., Szekely, G., & Lauersen, K. J. (2024). A synthetic biology and green bioprocess approach to recreate agarwood sesquiterpenoid mixtures. Green Chemistry, 26(5), 2577–2591. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3GC03708H
de Freitas, B. B., Overmans, S., Medina, J. S., Hong, P.-Y., & Lauersen, K. J. (2023). Biomass generation and heterologous isoprenoid milking from engineered microalgae grown in anaerobic membrane bioreactor effluent. Water Research, 229, 119486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.119486
Seger, M., Mammadova, F., Villegas-Valencia, M., Bastos De Freitas, B. B., Chang, C., Isachsen, I., Hemstreet, H., Abualsaud, F., Boring, M., Lammers, P. J., & Lauersen, K. J. (2023). Engineered ketocarotenoid biosynthesis in the polyextremophilic red microalga Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D. Metabolic Engineering Communications, 17, e00226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mec.2023.e00226