The long-term research interest is functional genomics of plant biomass degrading fungi from various biotopes.
Our on-going studies include different and complementary points of view:
- The aromatic metabolism of basidiomycete fungi and enzymatic valorization of lignin
- The regulation of the plant biomass degradation process
- Converting lignin-rich industrial waste of 2G biofuel plants to higher value products, in particular shipping fuels, fuel additives and chemical building blocks
- Genome mining and characterization of novel plant biomass modifying activities and fungal carbon metabolism
- Elucidating the difference in plant biomass strategies between ascomycetes and basidiomycetes
- More applied projects aiming to the production of antioxidants
- Heterologous production of novel catalysts for lignin valorisation