Doreen Gerlach
Dr.
Group leader
Phone: +49 641 972-19261
Email: doreen.gerlach@ime.fraunhofer.de
Room: D10.115
Building: THM
Vita
06/2017 | Change of name (Heerd to Gerlach) |
since 2016 | Group leader at Fraunhofer IME (Gießen, DE) |
2015 | Postdoc at Institute of Bioprocess Engineering and Pharmaceutical Technology, THM (Gießen, DE) |
2013–2015 | Postdoc (ITN project: PHOTO.COMM) at Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, DK) and at Algae Biotech (Weesp, NL) |
2008–2013 | PhD student at Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH (Bremen, DE) |
2003–2008 |
Diploma in biotechnology at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, (Hamburg, DE) 2007–2008 Diploma thesis at Karl-Winnacker-Institut der DECHEMA e.V. (Frankfurt/Main, DE) |
Research Interests
- Development of processes for the fermentative production of biomolecules
- Recombinant protein expression
- Downstream processing
Publications
Burghardt JP, Fan R, Baas MD, Eckhardt D, Gerlach D, Czermak P
(2020)
Enhancing the heterologous fructosyltransferase activity of Kluyveromyces lactis: developing a scaled-up process and abolishing invertase by CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing.
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology,
8
, 607507.

Mata-Gómez MA, Heerd D, Oyanguren-García I, Barbero F, Rito-Palomares M, Fernández-Lahore M
(2015)
A novel pectin-degrading enzyme complex from Aspergillus sojae ATCC 20235 mutants.
Journal of Science of Food and Agriculture,
95
(7)
, 1554–1561.

Heerd D, Diercks-Horn S, Fernández-Lahore M
(2014)
Efficient polygalacturonase production from agricultural and agro-industrial residues by solid-state culture of Aspergillus sojae under optimized conditions.
SpringerPlus,
3:742
, 1–14.

Heerd D, Tari C, Fernández-Lahore M
(2014)
Microbial strain improvement for enhanced polygalacturonase production by Aspergillus sojae.
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,
98
(17)
, 7471–7481.

Demir H, Göğüş N, Tari C, Heerd D, Fernandez-Lahore M
(2012)
Optimization of the process parameters for the utilization of orange peel to produce polygalacturonase by solid-state fermentation from an Aspergillus sojae mutant strain
Turkish Journal of Biology,
36
(4)
, 394–404.
