Kenneth Simoens

The paper demonstrates alternative states in a human gut microbial community and identifies phenotype switching as the mechanism driving their emergence.

This paper develops a phage-mediated system for just-in-time amplification and delivery of production circuits in E. coli to express toxic proteins without chemical inducers or leaky expression.

The paper introduces BIO-SPEC, an open-source bioreactor system for microbiology and bioprocessing, demonstrating its cost-effectiveness and versatility compared to commercial systems.

The paper demonstrates the feasibility of using a simplified N-cycle bacterial consortium to study bioflocculation in wastewater treatment by forming and observing microcolonies and macroclusters under controlled conditions.

The paper constructs genome-reduced strains of S. lividans to enhance heterologous protein secretion, finding improved secretion levels and altered metabolic and stress responses.