Marc Blanch‐Asensio

This study develops PEARL, an engineered living material using encapsulated recombinant lactobacilli in alginate beads for controlled protein release over 14 days.

This paper develops a genetic switch for Lactiplantibacillus plantarum using a bacteriophage promoter and cumate inducer, and shows that encapsulation in alginate reduces leaky expression and improves switch performance.

The paper identifies a high-performance phage-derived promoter/repressor system for Lactobacillus engineering, achieving high expression and strong repression in L. plantarum WCFS1.

This paper describes two genetic modules in Lactiplantibacillus plantarum that enable high-level gene expression without antibiotics, bacteriocins, or genomic manipulations.

This paper develops a direct cloning method using Gibson assembly and PCR to efficiently transform Lactiplantibacillus plantarum WCSF1 with genes incompatible with E. coli.