Systems Bioengineering Laboratory

In the year 2004, Systems Bioengineering Laboratory was established by Professor Min-kyu Oh of Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Korea University. The main research facilities are currently located at New Engineering Building. The major research topics of our lab includes metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and also systems bioengineering. The limited supply of petroleum and the accumulation of greenhouse gas request the production of fuels and chemicals from biomass, of which the process is called biorefinery. One of the important steps of the biorefinery process is the strain development for efficient conversion of biomass sugars to chemical intermediates. In order to construct the desirable strains that can produce industrially valuable products, our laboratory is equipped with genetic manipulation tools for many industrial strains, including Escherichia coli, Enterobacter aerogenes, Klebsiella pneumonia, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We are developing new gene cloning, knock-out, genome editing tools and applying those techniques for achieving maximal effectiveness of the biorefinery processes.