Additional Campus Affiliations
Head, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Ray and Beverly Mentzer Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Materials Research Laboratory
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Jagtap, S. S., Bhuvan, K., Ye, J., & Rao, C. V. (2026). Acetate-based biological platforms: Bridging carbon dioxide utilization and high-value bioproduct production in oleaginous yeasts. Bioresource Technology, 450, Article 134472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2026.134472
Jin, Y.-S., Kuanyshev, N., Li, J.-J., Deewan, A., Rao, C. V., Pannerselvam, B., Shukla, D., & Jagtap, S. (2026). Plant sweet and yeast MSF transporter capable of transporting different sugars simultaneously. (U.S. Patent No. 12686846).
Li, X., Weilandt, D. R., Keber, F. C., Subramanian, A. M., Loynes, S. R., Rao, C. V., Shen, Y., Wühr, M., & Rabinowitz, J. D. (2026). Lipid accumulation in nitrogen and phosphorus-limited yeast is caused by less growth-related dilution. Metabolic Engineering, 93, 60-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2025.08.010
Lopes, D. D., Dien, B. S., Hector, R. E., Thompson, S. R., Singh, V., Jagtap, S. S., Nichols, N. N., Rao, C. V., Skory, C., & Slininger, P. J. (2026). Protoplast fusion as a strategy to increase ploidy in Rhodotorula toruloides for strain development. Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, 53, Article kuaf037. https://doi.org/10.1093/jimb/kuaf037
Singh, S., Raj, T., Ye, J., Jagtap, S. S., Yang, C., Rao, C. V., & Singh, V. (2026). Selective designer hydrolysates from Miscanthus bioenergy crop for sustainable utilization. RSC Sustainability. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1039/d6su00312e