Patrik Raymond Jones

This study engineered cyanobacteria to convert CO2 into secreted short-to medium-chain hydrocarbons using synthetic metabolic pathways, achieving 230 mg/L of 1-alkene with 15% carbon partitioning.

The paper investigates how the absence of AMT transporters affects nitrogen and carbon metabolism in Anabaena sp. 7120, revealing internal molecular adaptations with minimal external phenotypes.

This paper engineers synthetic metabolic pathways in photosynthetic microorganisms to convert CO2 into hydrocarbon fuels, achieving up to 19-fold and 8-fold increases in alkane and alkene yields in cyanobacteria and algae, respectively.