Johan Larsbrink
Johan Larsbrink works as Associate Professor at the Division of Industrial Biotechnology, which he joined in 2015. He obtained his PhD at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 2013 and afterwards worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is a member of the , a national multi-university center aiming to create novel materials from wood. In 2019, Johan was awarded the Research Supervisor of the Year Award Board of Graduate Students, and in 2021 he was elected as a member of the Young Academy of Sweden. He is one of the two directors of study at the Bioscience graduate school at Chalmers.
His research background and current interests revolve around microbial deconstruction of complex biomass, in particular the carbohydrates constituting the main part of renewable plant biomass. The research in his group has been supported by grants from several funding agencies, including the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Energy Agency, Formas, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Johan is a teacher on the courses: (5 HEC; PhD course ), KMB056 – Molecular biotechnology, KBT016 – Biochemistry and biotechnology, KBT185 – Project course in chemistry, and BBT050 – Sustainable food production.
Showing 66 publications
Exploration of three Dyadobacter fermentans enzymes uncovers molecular activity determinants in CE15
Filamentous fungi display different behavior during spruce bark degradation.
Resin acids play key roles in shaping microbial communities during degradation of spruce bark
Filamentous fungi display different behavior during spruce bark degradation.
Yeasts Have Evolved Divergent Enzyme Strategies To Deconstruct and Metabolize Xylan
Characterization of three tannases from Clostridium butyricum active on oak bark extract
Glycan processing in gut microbiomes
Recombinant Protein L: Production, Purification and Characterization of a Universal Binding Ligand
Enzymes targeting lignin-carbohydrate complexes
Alpha vs. Gamma: substrate specificity of CE15 enzymes
Deciphering key stages, compounds, and microorganisms during microbial degradation of spruce bark
Performance of Regression Models as a Function of Experiment Noise
Biochemical characterization of three tannases from Clostridium butyricum
Polysaccharide degradation by the Bacteroidetes: mechanisms and nomenclature
Bacteroidetes bacteria in the soil: Glycan acquisition, enzyme secretion, and gliding motility
Structural insights of the enzymes from the chitin utilization locus of Flavobacterium johnsoniae
Mapping the enzyme machineries of cellulolytic soil-dwelling Bacteroidetes
ACTIVE SITE EVOLUTION IN BIOMASS DEGRADING ENZYMES
Mapping the Enzyme Machineries of Cellulolytic Soil-Dwelling Bacteroidetes
Enzyme discovery and structure-function investigation of carbohydrate-active enzymes
Novel AA9 LPMOs from the thermophilic fungus Thielavia terrestris LPH 172
Understanding enzyme-substrate interactions in Carbohydrate Esterase Family 15
Proteomic Dissection of the Cellulolytic Machineries Used by Soil-Dwelling Bacteroidetes
Biochemical and structural diversity in Carbohydrate Esterase Family 15
Proteomic data on enzyme secretion and activity in the bacterium Chitinophaga pinensis
The function of AA9 proteins in the thermophilic fungus Malbranchea cinnamomea
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Showing 21 research projects
Discovering biological tools for conversion of bark and its extractives into new products
Towards complete cleavage of lignin-carbohydrate bonds
Terahertz Technology for Probing Picosecond Protein Dynamics under Physiological Conditions
Enzymatic deconstruction of microbial polysaccharide networks
Evaluation of the key cellulolytic enzymes from soil-dwelling cellulolytic Bacteroidetes
Microbial electro-assisted conversion of biomass to energy carriers
Biochemical conversion of bark
Structure-based engineering of glucuronoyl esterases for separation of lignin and carbohydrates
CRISPR/Cas9 for the lignocellulose-yeast of the future
Development of thermostable enzyme cocktails
Etherases to break covalent bonds between lignin and hemicellulose
Structure-function studies of enzymes cleaving covalent bonds between lignin and hemicelluloses
Mapping of unstudied cellulose-degrading mechanisms in soil bacteria
Enzymes for selective decomposition of woody biomass