The Swedish funding agency FORMAS has awarded me with a grant to continue ongoing work with the fascinating litho-autotrophic bacterium Ralstonia eutropha a.k.a. Cupriavidus necator. As usual in our lab, we will study this bug and its metabolic capabilities from the systems biology perspective. Many exciting things are planned but the focus of the project is on resource allocation: What does a versatile soil bacterium spends its carbon and energy for? Which routes will different substrates take through the cellular metabolism? Under which conditions are enzymes saturated (under-abundance), or are not used at all (over-abundance)? We will try to answer these questions using highly controlled steady state cultivation, proteomics, metabolic modeling, and not yet determined genetic engineering. The project will officially start May 2020 and run for two years.