Author

Aidan E. Cowan

Joint BioEnergy InstituteORCID 0000-0003-2810-9318Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

Biology Disciplines

Click to filter author papers

Signature Assays, Organisms & Methods

Click to filter · or open tag

Organism:E. coli· 2 Assay:metabolomics· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:protein folding & dynamics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 1

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. PetzoldiD· 2 shared Jay D. KeaslingiD· 2 shared Yan CheniD· 2 shared Anna Stanton· 1 shared Bridgie Cawthon· 1 shared Edward E. K. BaidooiD· 1 shared Emili Toppari· 1 shared Graham A. HudsoniD· 1 shared

Activity by Year

2025-2026 · peak 1/yr

Co-Author Collaboration Network

10 top collaborators · 33 mutual co-author links

Click any collaborator node to inspect or filter shared papers

Focal author (center)Selected co-authorORCID co-authorUnlinked name

Curved chords = mutual co-authorship

2 shared papersBioengineering

Christopher J. PetzoldORCID

Mutual co-authors in cluster

Author profile →

2 papers

Recent·Most cited

BioengineeringMetabolic EngineeringPeer-reviewedMay 20, 2026

Expanding the scope of redox-balance growth coupling techniques with a carbon cofeeding strategy

Aidan E. Cowan, Bridgie Cawthon, Mason Hillers…·Jay D. Keasling

This paper introduces a carbon cofeeding strategy to overcome stoichiometric limitations in redox-balance growth coupling, enabling growth-coupled selection for biosynthetic pathways in engineered E. coli.

1 citation

E. colimetabolomics

𝕏 PostBluesky

Synthetic BiologyMetabolic EngineeringPeer-reviewedOct 15, 2025

Feedstock-Efficient Conversion through Hydrogen and Formate-Driven Metabolism in Escherichia coli

Robert L. Bertrand, Justin Panich, Aidan E. Cowan…·Jay D. Keasling

This paper engineers Escherichia coli to use hydrogen and formate as energy sources, improving mevalonate production by 57.6% through metabolic decoupling.

3 citations

E. colimetabolomics

𝕏 PostBluesky