Dr.ir. A.J.A. (Ton) van Maris

Biography

• 2005 - present
  Assistant professor, Industrial Microbiology Group, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology
• 2005
  Tate & Lyle, Selby, North-Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Aquasta, Natural Astaxanthin, fermentation engineer and troubleshooting.
• 2004
  Tate & Lyle, Decatur, Illinois, United States of America. 1,3-propanediol pilot plant, operational down-stream processing.
• 2000 - 2003
  PhD Industrial Microbiology, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Prof. J.T. Pronk, ‘Metabolic engineering of pyruvate metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.’
• 1994 - 1999
  MSc Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Research interests

• Thermodynamics inspired metabolic engineering
• Evolutionary engineering of industrial microorganisms
• The role of transport accross the plasma membrane

Teaching activities

• BSc and MSc programmes: microbial physiology, industrial biotechnology and metabolic reprogramming
• International Advanced Courses: microbial physiology and fermentation technology
• Supervising (and supervised) a total of 8 PhD’s until 2008

Key publications

• van Maris, Antonius J. A., Abbott, Derek A., Bellissimi, Eleonora, van den Brink, Joost, Kuyper, Marko, Luttik, Marijke A. H., Wisselink, H. Wouter, Scheffers, W. Alexander, van Dijken, Johannes P., Pronk, Jack T. (2007). Alcoholic fermentation of carbon sources in biomass hydrolysates by Saccharomyces cerevisiae: current status. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology, 90, 391-418.
• Wisselink, H.W., Toirkens, M.J., Franco Berriel, M.R., Winkler, A.A., van Dijken, J.P., Pronk, J.T., van Maris, A.J.A. (2007). Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for efficient anaerobic alcoholic fermentation of L-arabinose. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 73, 4881-4891.
• van Maris, Antonius J.A., Konings, Wil N., van Dijken, Johannes P., Pronk, Jack T. (2004). Microbial export of lactic and 3-hydroxypropanoic acid: implications for industrial fermentation processes. Metabolic Engineering, 6, 245-255.
• van Maris, A.J.A., Geertman, J.M.G., Vermeulen, A., Groothuizen, M.K., Winkler, A.A., Piper, M.D.W., van Dijken, J.P., Pronk, J.T. (2003). Directed evolution of pyruvate-decarboxylase-negative Saccharomyces cerevisiae yielding a C2-independent, glucose-tolerant and pyruvate-hyperproducing yeast. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 70, 159-166.
• Bakker, Barbara M., Overkamp, Karin M., van Maris, Antonius J.A., Luttik, Marijke A.H., Kötter, Peter., van Dijken, Johannes P., Pronk, Jack T (2001). Stoichiometry and compartmentation of NADH metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 25, 15-37.