Christopher Tauer

Christopher Tauer is a researcher at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), affiliated with the Department of Biotechnology and Food Science and its Institute of Bioprocess Science and Engineering and Institute of Molecular Biotechnology. His work focuses on optimizing bacterial expression systems for therapeutic proteins, genetic engineering in Escherichia coli, and synthetic biology approaches for bioprocessing.

• Research Highlights
  • Developing recombinant protein production platforms in E. coli and Lactobacillus plantarum
  • Specializing in non-canonical amino acid incorporation into antibody fragments
  • Advancing CRISPR/Cas9 and RMCE genome editing techniques
  • Investigating ribosome stalling and stress responses during protein production
• Publication Trends
  • Recent work spans synthetic biology (2025), bioprocess optimization (2024), and microbial protein engineering (2023).
  • Earlier contributions include foundational studies on inducible promoters in lactic acid bacteria (2016) and HIV antibody structure (1990).
• Teaching
  • Contributes to biotechnology education at BOKU, offering courses on microbial systems and protein engineering.