Prof. Ting Lu

• Production of Biofuels and Bioproducts
• Novel Corn/Biomass Fractionation Technologies
• Corn Bioprocessing
• Process Simulation and Economic Analysis

• Gene Regulatory Networks in Bacteria
• Microbiota Reengineering for Therapeutic Interventions
• Quantitative Biology
• Systems Biology

Selected Journals

• T. Bao, Y. Qian, Y. Xin, J. Collins, and T. Lu, Engineering microbial division of labor for plastic upcycling, Nature Communications, 14: 5712 (2023).
• W. Kong, Y. Qian, P. Stewart, and T. Lu, De novo engineering of a bacterial lifestyle program, Nature Chemical Biology, 19: 488–497 (2022)
• X. Huang, Y. Xin, and T. Lu, A systematic, complexity-reduction strategy to dissect the kombucha tea microbiome, eLife, 11: e76401 (2022).
• F. Liu, J. Mao, W. Kong, Q. Hua, Y. Feng, R. Bashir and T. Lu, Interaction variability shapes succession of synthetic microbial ecosystems, Nature Communications 11:309 (2020).
• V. Ozgen, W. Kong, A. Blanchard, F. Liu, and T. Lu, Spatial interference scale as a determinent of microbial range expansion, Science Advances 4: eaau0695 (2018).
• W. Kong, D. Meldgin, J. Collins, and T. Lu, Designing microbial consortia with defined social interactions, Nature Chemical Biology 14: 821–829 (2018).
• C. Liao, A. Blanchard, and T. Lu, An integrative circuit-host modeling framework for predicting synthetic gene network behaviors, Nature Microbiology 2: 1658–1666 (2017).
• W. Kong, K. Kapuganti, and T. Lu, A gene network engineering platform for lactic acid bacteria, Nucleic Acid Research 44: e37 (2016)
• C. Liao, S. Seo, V. Celik, H. Liu, W. Kong, Y. Wang, H. Blaschek, Y. Jin, and T. Lu, Integrated, systems metabolic picture of acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation by clostridium acetobutylicum, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 112: 8505–8510 (2015)
• H. Liu and T. Lu, Autonomous production of 1,4-butanediol via a de novo biosynthesis pathway in engineered escherichia coli, Metabolic Engineering 29: 135-141 (2014)
• W. Fu, A. Ergun*, T. Lu*, J. Hill, S. Haxhinasto, M. Fassett, R. Gazit, S. Adoro, L. Glimcher, S. Chan, P. Kastner, D. Rossi, J. Collins, D. Mathis, C. Benoist, A multiply redundant genetic switch locks in the transcriptional signature of Treg cells, Nature Immunology 13: 972-980 (2012). (*Equal contribution)
• W. Ruder*, T. Lu*, and J. Collins, Synthetic biology moving into the clinic, Science 333: 1248-1252 (2011). (*Equal contribution)