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
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. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.4c00848
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