Mattheos Koffas

Dorothy and Fred Chau ʼ71 Career Development Constellation Professor in Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering

About

Professor Mattheos Koffas, Ph.D., received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece in 1994. He then joined the graduate program of the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT where he worked on improving amino acid biosynthesis from Corynebacterium glutamicum. After completing his Ph.D. in 2000, he joined DuPont’s Central Research and Development as a research scientist where he worked on engineering the carotenoid biosynthesis of an obligate methanotroph. In August of 2002 he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at SUNY Buffalo as a tenure-track Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the summer of 2008. In January of 2011 Prof. Koffas moved to his current position at Rensselaer. He was appointed Dorothy and Fred Chau '71 Career Development Constellation Professor in Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering in 2015.  In his research career, Dr. Koffas has worked with a variety of microorganisms and natural products including amino acids, polyphenols, fatty acids and terpenoids. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, more than 12 book chapters and holds 10 patents. He is a member of the editorials boards of various journals in the area of bioengineering, Editor in Chief of Metabolic Engineering Communications and Associate Editor for Biotechnology Advances. His research has been funded by federal agencies (NIH, ARPA-E and NSF), the state of New York (NYStem), and industrial partners (Evonik, Firstwave Technologies and Chromadex).

Other affililations: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biological Sciences

Research

Other Focus Areas

Metabolic Engineering, Industrial Microbiology, Synthetic Biology, Natural Products

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Mattheos Koffas has 214 indexed publications in the subjects of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology.

Alexander Connor, Caleb Wigham, Yang Bai, Manish Rai, Sebastian Nassif, Mattheos Koffas, R. Helen Zha
Metabolic Engineering Communications
, 16
, 2023
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Nisit Watthanasakphuban, Luan Van Nguyen, Yu Shen Cheng, Pau Loke Show, Malinee Sriariyanun, Mattheos Koffas, Kittipong Rattanaporn
Fermentation
, 9
, 2023
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Jian Zha, Zhen Zhao, Zhengyang Xiao, Thomas Eng, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Mattheos AG Koffas, Yinjie J. Tang
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
, 79
, 2023
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Philippe Jeandet, Md Sahab Uddin, Christophe Clément, Aziz Aziz, Cédric Jacquard, Haroon Khan, Muhammad Ajmal Shah, Essaid Ait Barka, Mattheos Koffas, Seyed Mohammad Nabavi, Eduardo Sobarzo-Sánchez, Jean Hugues Renault
Natural Product Reports
, 40
, 2023
, pp.1045-1057
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Roypim Thananusak, Kobkul Laoteng, Nachon Raethong, Mattheos Koffas, Wanwipa Vongsangnak
Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering
, 28
, 2023
, pp.406-418
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Balwant S. Paliya, Vivek K. Sharma, Maria G. Tuohy, Harikesh B. Singh, Mattheos Koffas, Rachid Benhida, Brijesh K. Tiwari, Deepak M. Kalaskar, Brahma N. Singh, Vijai K. Gupta
Biotechnology Advances
, 67
, 2023
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Mst Afroza Khatun, Md Anarul Hoque, Mattheos Koffas, Yan Feng
Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
, 50
, 2023
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Alexander Connor, Jessica V. Lamb, Massimiliano Delferro, Mattheos Koffas, R. Helen Zha
Microbial Cell Factories
, 22
, 2023
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Nachon Raethong, Roypim Thananusak, Pattsarun Cheawchanlertfa, Pranesha Prabhakaran, Kittipong Rattanaporn, Kobkul Laoteng, Mattheos Koffas, Wanwipa Vongsangnak
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
, 81
, 2023
.
Zhengyang Xiao, Alexander J. Connor, Alyssa M. Worland, Yinjie J. Tang, R. Helen Zha, Mattheos Koffas
Metabolic Engineering
, 77
, 2023
, pp.231-241
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