Christopher E. Lawson

This study develops an automated system for anaerobic cultivation and phenotyping of chain-elongating bacteria, revealing metabolic diversity and chain-length specificity principles.

This study engineers an anaerobic fungal-bacterial consortium to convert lignocellulosic biomass into medium-chain fatty acids without pretreatment, achieving a 21.0% conversion yield.

This study identifies a novel metabolic pathway in chain elongating bacteria that couples Stickland fermentation with reverse β-oxidation to produce medium-chain carboxylic acids.

The paper describes a new bacterial species, Peptonella octanoica, and reclassifies Eubacterium pyruvativorans into this genus based on phylogenetic and phenotypic analysis.

This study demonstrates long-term production and recovery of medium-chain carboxylic acids from source-separated organics using microbial chain elongation and in-line extraction.

The paper identifies distinct acetate utilization strategies in chain-elongating bacteria that explain differences in butyrate versus medium-chain carboxylic acid production.

This paper develops a methylation-conjugation system for Clostridium kluyveri to enable plasmid-based genetic modification and demonstrates its use for expressing a fluorescent reporter.

This study evaluates the feasibility of expanding the product range of chain elongating bacteria to produce C9-C12 fatty acids and other derivatives using metabolic engineering and constraint-based modelling.

This paper introduces a mass binning glycoproteomics approach to explore prokaryotic protein glycosylation, revealing unique surface layer modulation in an anammox bacterium.

The paper integrates metagenomic, metatranscriptomic, and thermodynamic analyses to predict and characterize the metabolic network of an anaerobic microbiome producing medium-chain fatty acids from renewable feedstock.