Biography:
Vanessa Wegat studied Biochemistry at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany, and completed her Master of Science in 2017. After a brief excursion into the pharmaceutical industry, she joined the Fraunhofer IGB as a PhD student at the end of 2018. In collaboration with the Technical University of Munich, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis in November 2023. Since December 2022, she has been leading multiple projects focused on high-throughput screening of enzyme libraries and fermentation processes for the production of CO2-based products.
Title : Robot-aided high-throughput engineering of FLS enzyme to establish in vivo synthetic C1 metabolism