Lothar Eggeling's Biography

Lothar Eggeling, Group Leader, Forschungszentrum Juelich Gmbh

Dr. Lothar Eggeling did his PhD in microbiology. He is ocupied in Research Centre Jülich at the Institute for Bio- and Geosciences: Biotechnology. He did pioneering work in a variety of fields, encluding the establishment of intracellular flux analysis in microbes, the first isolation of metabolite exporters, characterization cell wall synthesis of Mycobacterium and Corynebacterium, and he developed several bacterial strains in use for amino acid production. His current interest is the use of metabolite sensors for single cell analysis applied microbiology. In total he contributed to more than 150 publications and more than 30 patents and patent applications.