Marta Irla earned her B.Eng and M.Sc degrees in Applied Biotechnology at University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland in 2010 and 2011, respectively, with parts of her M.Sc degree conducted at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria as an Erasmus Mobility Grant scholar.
In 2016 Irla was awarded Ph.D degree in Natural Sciences at Bielefeld University in Bielefeld, Germany. In her thesis work she has performed genome-wide analysis of transcriptome of B. methanolicus and contributed to establishment of this organism as an industrially relevant strain for methanol-based production of different compounds.
Irla accepted position as a post-doctoral researcher in Department of Biotechnology and Food Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway in 2017 where she continued her work related to C1 metabolism. Since 2012 Irla’s research has continuously been focused on methylotrophic Bacillus methanolicus, in that time she has been involved in engineering of that strain for production of different value-added products (amino acids and their derivatives, vitamins, and others), improvement of existing genetic toolbox for this bacterium and system-based characterization of its metabolism.
The focus of her research group “Microbial Synthetic Biology” established at the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering (BCE) in 2021 is the development of methanol-based bioprocesses for production of value-added compounds. Since August 2022 Irla is an Associate Fellow of Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS)’.
Research Interests
- Metabolic engineering
- Industrial biotechnology
- Methanol-based bioprocesses
- Sequencing-based strain characterization
- Synthetic biology
