Ahmad Saleh

Research Interests

• Microbial engineering for biomolecule production
• Identification of biosynthetic pathways of metabolites
• Study of regulatory mechanism underlying biosynthesis of secondary metabolites
• Mining for homologues of biosynthetic enzymes

Current Research Projects

• Microbial Engineering of
  • Biodiesel
  • Antioxidant amino acids
  • Rhamnolipids/glycolipids
  • Cellulose
• Development of genome editing tools for different industrial yeasts
• Development of analytical methods for different metabolites and biomolecules

Tools and Expertises

• Metabolomics, Lipidomics
• Chemical structure elucidation of metabolites
• Chromatography (GC, LC) coupled with mass spectrometry (QQQ, HRMS)
• Genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9)
• Genetic, pathway and metabolic engineering
• Factorial Design of experiments
• Genome/metagenome mining