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Mateusz BalkaPhD student

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Contact

Name and title: Mateusz Balka PhD student

mateusz.balka@dbb.su.se

Orcid

0000-0003-4230-6393

Workplace: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Visiting address

Room A431

Svante Arrhenius väg 16

Office hours

Monday - Friday 9 - 17 in K431

Postal address

Institutionen för biokemi och biofysik

106 91 Stockholm

Research group

Daniel Daley's research group

Research in the Daley laboratory explores how proteins are trafficked, folded and assembled in bacterial cell factories. The research provides molecular insight into fundamental processes, such as protein secretion and cell division. The knowledge gained in these studies is used to engineer more efficient bacterial cell factories.

Links

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About me

Mati Balka

I'm working in Dan Daley's group where we design new plasmids. We want them to be helpful in recombinant protein production by increasing the yield of correctly folded proteins and preventing their misfolding. Furthermore, I'm working on cell stress response in E. coli.

I'm interested in biotechnology and microbial biology with an emphasis on recombinant protein production.

I got my BSc in Biology from Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Poland), MSc in Biotechnology from the University of Glasgow (Scotland), and I did a research internship in FGen, Switzerland (currently Ginkgo Bioworks Switzerland). Now I'm working on my PhD at Stockholm University.

Teaching

I'm a Teaching Assistant in laboratory practicals in Biochemistry I and Biochemistry III courses.

Research

In my research, I focus on bacterial stress response mechanisms, especially linked to the inner membrane and the periplasm. I combine it with the research on recombinant protein production and biosensor construction. For more details, I recommend seeing my publication list.

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