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

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

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

Jagtap, S. S., & Rao, C. V. (2025). Extracellular polyol esters of fatty acids by Rhodotorula yeast for streamlined biorefineries. Trends in Biotechnology, 43(11), 2759-2770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2025.05.003

Koh, H. G., Tohidifar, P., Oh, H., Ye, Q., Jung, S. C., Rao, C. V., & Jin, Y. S. (2025). RT-EZ: A Golden Gate Assembly Toolkit for Streamlined Genetic Engineering of Rhodotorula toruloides. ACS synthetic biology, 14(5), 1572-1580. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.4c00848

Oh, H., Koh, H. G., Jung, S. C., Ye, Q., Jagtap, S. S., Rao, C. V., & Jin, Y. S. (2025). Engineering of xylose metabolic pathways in Rhodotorula toruloides for sustainable biomanufacturing. FEMS yeast research, 25, Article foaf029. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsyr/foaf029

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