Pablo Cruz-Morales serves as a Senior Researcher at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, part of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he leads the Yeast Natural Products research group within the DTU Microbes Initiative. His work contributes to multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals through sustainable bioproduction research. His research expertise spans natural product discovery, biosynthetic gene cluster analysis, and Streptomyces genomics. Cruz-Morales specializes in evolutionary analysis of biosynthetic pathways, synthetic biology applications for natural product enhancement, and computational methods for genome mining. His fingerprint reveals strong focus areas in Gene Clusters (100%), Streptomyces (62%), Natural Products (60%), and Biosynthetic Gene Clusters (32%). Cruz-Morales' publication record demonstrates significant contributions to microbial biotechnology, with recent work spanning phylogenetics, mycoparasitism mechanisms, edible mycelium engineering, and co-evolutionary analysis of biosynthetic pathways. His research bridges computational genomics with practical applications in sustainable production systems. Cruz-Morales actively supervises five PhD students across diverse projects including yeast-based biosensors, structural variant calling in centromeres, computational graph methods for natural product discovery, Streptomyces genome mining, and synthetic biology applications for smart farming. His collaborative network spans multiple institutions with significant international engagement. As part of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Cruz-Morales contributes to cutting-edge research in sustainable bioproduction through the integration of computational genomics, synthetic biology, and microbial engineering approaches.









