Richard McLean, PostDoctoral researcher at Weizmann Institue

I am Richard McLean and my primary interest lies at the blurry line between metabolism and abiotic organic chemistry and using enzyme engineering to expand that overlap as much as possible. I completed my doctoral work on the Hydroxypropionyl-CoA/Acrylyl-CoA (HOPAC) Cycle in the Erb Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in 2022 and joined the Fleishman Lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science as a postdoctoral fellow in 2023. Within the W-BioCat consortium, my project will center on improving the expressibility of the 𝘗𝘺𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘴 Wco biosynthetic pathway in 𝘌.𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪, and further work with the Wco-containing aldehyde oxidoreductases.

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