BME
Biochemical & Metabolic Engineering Laboratory
Amity Institute of Biotechnology · Noida, India
Led by Dr. Vivek Kumar Gaur
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collaboration network
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.
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.
Six lines of work, one carbon ledger.
Select a programme to see what it covers and the papers behind it.
Members
The group behind the work.
The record.
Graphical abstracts as published, with the paper underneath. Search, filter, and follow any entry through to the journal.
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.
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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An international conference, run out of the lab.
Three days, four tracks, invited speakers from — countries.