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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences School of Chemical Sciences

Christopher V Rao

Professor

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 Lab
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Hamed, S., Emara, M., Tohidifar, P., & Rao, C. V. (2025). N-Acetyl cysteine exhibits antimicrobial and anti-virulence activity against Salmonella enterica. PloS one, 20(1), Article e0313508. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313508

Yook, S., Deewan, A., Ziolkowski, L., Lane, S., Tohidifar, P., Cheng, M. H., Singh, V., Stasiewicz, M. J., Rao, C. V., & Jin, Y. S. (2025). Engineering and evolution of Yarrowia lipolytica for producing lipids from lignocellulosic hydrolysates. Bioresource Technology, 416, Article 131806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2024.131806

Cortés-Peña, Y. R., Woodruff, W., Banerjee, S., Li, Y., Singh, V., Rao, C. V., & Guest, J. S. (2024). Integration of plant and microbial oil processing at oilcane biorefineries for more sustainable biofuel production. GCB Bioenergy, 16(11), Article e13183. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.13183

Deshavath, N. N., Woodruff, W., Eller, F., Susanto, V., Yang, C., Rao, C. V., & Singh, V. (2024). Scale-up of microbial lipid and bioethanol production from oilcane. Bioresource Technology, 399, Article 130594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2024.130594

Koh, H. G., Yook, S., Oh, H., Rao, C. V., & Jin, Y. S. (2024). Toward rapid and efficient utilization of nonconventional substrates by nonconventional yeast strains. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 85, Article 103059. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2023.103059

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