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 222 indexed publications in the subjects of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology.

Nicholas A. Kaplan, Khondokar Nowshin Islam, Fiona C. Kanis, Jack R. Verderber, Xin Wang, J. Andrew Jones, Mattheos A.G. Koffas
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
, 90
, 2024
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Xinyi Zan, Yunting Xu, Gege Chen, Linhan Wang, Jun Yang, Yixin Wen, Lei Sun, Fengjie Cui, Wenjing Sun, Yuanda Song, Mattheos A.G. Koffas
ACS Food Science and Technology
, 4
, 2024
, pp.747-756
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Xia Wu, Juan Ren, Jing Wang, Mattheos A.G. Koffas, Jian Zha
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
, 90
, 2024
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W. Liu, H. Li, J. X. Zhang, Y. N. Xu, X. M. Zhang, J. S. Shi, M. A.G. Koffas, Z. H. Xu
Systems Microbiology and Biomanufacturing
, 4
, 2024
, pp.127-137
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Guoqiang Xu, Jiyue Wang, Jiancheng Shen, Yaxin Zhu, Wanjing Liu, Yuhang Chen, Jian Zha, Xiaomei Zhang, Xiaojuan Zhang, Jinsong Shi, Mattheos A.G. Koffas, Zhenghong Xu
Metabolic Engineering
, 81
, 2024
, pp.238-248
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Aditi Dey Tithi, Yuefan Song, Elena Paskaleva, Mattheos Koffas
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
, 108
, 2024
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Wei Liu, Hui Li, Dongxin Guo, Yu Ni, Xiaomei Zhang, Jinsong Shi, Mattheos A.G. Koffas, Zhenghong Xu
Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
, 238
, 2024
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Xin Yi Zan, Yun Ting Xu, Jing Jing Guo, Lei Sun, Hao Ran Cao, Jing Ting Zhang, Xi Cao, Feng Jie Cui, Wen Jing Sun, Shu Hao Huo, Yuan Da Song, Mattheos A.G. Koffas
Process Biochemistry
, 137
, 2024
, pp.164-174
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Alexander Connor, R. Helen Zha, Mattheos Koffas
Microbial Cell Factories
, 23
, 2024
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Alexander Connor, Caleb Wigham, Yang Bai, Manish Rai, Sebastian Nassif, Mattheos Koffas, R. Helen Zha
Metabolic Engineering Communications
, 16
, 2023
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