People

Merja Penttilä

Adjunct Professor

T107 Bioproducts and Biosystems

Full researcher profile

https://research.aalto.fi/...

Contact information

[email protected]

Phone number

+358407000163

Honors and awards

Knight First Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Jan 2007

The Wihuri Foundation for International Prizes, Personal Recognition

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Jan 2012

Research groups

Synthetic Biology, Adjunct Professor

Publications

Inducible Synthetic Growth Regulation Using the ClpXP Proteasome Enhances cis,cis-Muconic Acid and Glycolic Acid Yields in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Natalia Kakko, Anssi Rantasalo, Tino Koponen, Virve Vidgren, Matti Kannisto, Natalia Maiorova, Heli Nygren, Dominik Mojzita, Merja Penttilä, Paula Jouhten 2023 ACS Synthetic Biology

The complex structure of Fomes fomentarius represents an architectural design for high-performance ultralightweight materials

Robert Pylkkänen, Daniel Werner, Ajit Bishoyi, Dominik Weil, Ernesto Scoppola, Wolfgang Wagermaier, Adil Safeer, Salima Bahri, Marc Baldus, Arja Paananen, Merja Penttilä, Géza R. Szilvay, Pezhman Mohammadi 2023 Science Advances

β-1,3-Glucan synthesis, novel supramolecular self-assembly, characterization and application

Robert Pylkkänen, Pezhman Mohammadi, Ville Liljeström, Wojciech Płaziński, Grégory Beaune, Jaakko Timonen, Merja Penttilä 2022 Nanoscale

Strain design optimization using reinforcement learning

Maryam Sabzevari, Sandor Szedmak, Merja Penttilä, Paula Jouhten, Juho Rousu 2022 PLoS computational biology

Control of D-lactic acid content in P(LA-3HB) copolymer in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a synthetic gene expression system

Anna Ylinen, Laura Salusjärvi, Mervi Toivari, Merja Penttilä 2022 Metabolic Engineering Communications

PHB production from cellobiose with Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Anna Ylinen, Jorg C. de Ruijter, Paula Jouhten, Merja Penttilä 2022 Microbial Cell Factories

Bioinspired Functionally Graded Composite Assembled Using Cellulose Nanocrystals and Genetically Engineered Proteins with Controlled Biomineralization

Pezhman Mohammadi, Julie-Anne Gandier, Wolfgang Wagermaier, Ali Miserez, Merja Penttilä 2021 Advanced Materials