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engineering black soldier flies as a platform for sustainable biomanufacturing and bioremediation.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
Kate Tepper, Owain Edwards, Anwar Sunna, Ian T Paulsen, Maciej Maselko (2024), "Diverting organic waste from landfills via insect biomanufacturing using engineered black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens)" Commun Biol 7, 862.
black soldier fly genetic engineering.
Bio Rxiv
Chandran Pfitzner, Kate Tepper, Sheemal Kumar, Carly Retief, Justin M McNab, Robert A Harrell, Maciej Maselko (2024), "Rapid generation and screening of transgenic black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens)".
engineering insects for biomanufacturing and bioremediation.
ACS Synthetic Biology 2022
Michael Clark*, Kate Tepper*, Kerstin Petroll, Sheemal Kumar, Anwar Sunna, and Maciej Maselko (2021), "Bioremediation of Industrial Pollutants by Insects Expressing a Fungal Laccase".
Methylmercury demethylation and volatilization by animals expressing microbial enzymes.
Bio Rxiv
Kate Tepper, Josh King, Pradeep M Cholan, Chandran Pfitzner, Marco Morsch,
Simon C Apte, Maciej Maselko (2024), "Methylmercury demethylation and volatilization by animals expressing microbial enzymes"
Biomanufacturing of a functional microbial phytase in an insect host.
Bio Rxiv
Carly Retief, Sheemal Kumar, Kate Tepper, Maciej Maselko (2024), "Biomanufacturing of a functional microbial phytase in an insect host"
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