Rugilé Labunskaité

Rugilé Labunskaité is an Industrial PhD Student at the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine at Technical University of Denmark (DTU), focusing on Microbial and Chemical Ecology within Metabolic Signaling and Regulation.

• Research interests include Escherichia coli, fermentation processes, and metabolic engineering.
• Her work addresses overflow metabolism and sugar gradient robustness in large-scale bioproduction.

Recent research trends involve optimizing microbial systems for industrial applications like human milk oligosaccharide production, with a 2024 publication in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.