Romas Kazlauskas

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Credentials

PhD

Research Summary

Enzymes function in the natural world to digest nutrients, build structures as plants ans animal grow and construct complex molecules. Protein engineering can adapt these natural enzymes to industrial, medical and agricultural applications to make them more efficient and sustainable. My group engineers enzymes to catalyze new reactions to expand the range of molecules that they can make, to act faster on plastics to break them down for recycling and to help animals digest feed more efficiently.