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
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
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. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.4c00848