BME

Biochemical & Metabolic Engineering Laboratory

Amity Institute of Biotechnology · Noida, India

Led by Dr. Vivek Kumar Gaur

Central carbon metabolism · hover a metabolite for its enzymes and cofactors

The Lab · Amity Institute of Biotechnology

A metabolic engineering group that starts at the model and ends at the bioreactor.

Most laboratories are good at one half of this. We are built to close the loop: constraint-based models and machine learning propose the intervention, molecular biology builds the strain, and staged fermentation tells us the titre, rate and yield that actually matter to a process engineer.

Our central question is a carbon-accounting one. Every gram of substrate a cell consumes is split between biomass, maintenance and product. Classical strain engineering pushes on that split and hits a wall, because the cell needs to grow. So we build growth-decoupled production systems, and we pick pathways that pay for themselves.

The second half of the lab points outward, at what industrial civilisation has already released. Microplastics, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, pesticide residues and landfill leachate are all, from a microbial point of view, unusual carbon sources — which makes them an engineering problem rather than only a regulatory one.

Principal Investigator

Dr. Vivek Kumar Gaur

Assistant Professor at the Amity Institute of Biotechnology and convener of SBB-2026. Works on metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and microbial biosurfactants.

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Research Programmes · 6 active lines

Six lines of work, one carbon ledger.

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People

The group behind the work.

Publications

The record.

Graphical abstracts as published, with the paper underneath. Search, filter, and follow any entry through to the journal.

Major Industrial Projects · Running now

What we are building, and who it is for.

The industrial programmes currently occupying most of the lab's time. Strain, route and process design stay in the lab until they are published.

Global Network

The lab is not just a room. It is the entire world.

Co-authoring groups on the papers above, and the institutions the lab brought to Amity Noida.

— countries

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Region

SBB-2026 · Convened by this lab

An international conference, run out of the lab.

Three days, four tracks, invited speakers from — countries — the whole programme in one deck.

Hybrid · Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida

International Conference on Sustainable Biotechnology and Bio-innovations

“Sustainable Biotechnology and Bioinnovations for a Circular Bioeconomy”

Dates: 25–27 Feb 2026
Convener: Dr. V. K. Gaur
Invited speakers: —
Session chairs: 22

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