Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

ACES Distinguished Professor in Bioprocessing, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Founder Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Executive Director, Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory (IBRL), Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Professor, Food Science and Human Nutrition
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Kuanyshev, N., Dai, D., Kim, J., Kang, N. K., Cheng, M. H., Singh, V., & Jin, Y. S. (2026). All You Can Eat Yeast: Substituting Hexose Transporters With AtSWEET7 Alleviates Glucose Repression, Enabling Simultaneous Utilization of Sugars in Renewable Feedstocks. Biotechnology and bioengineering. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.70188

Kumar, K., McDonald, A. G., Singh, V., Ding, L., & Cheng, M. H. (2026). Synergistic effects of chemical-free hydrothermal pretreatment on the recovery of cellulosic sugars and pectin from sugar mill-derived sugar beet pulp. Industrial Crops and Products, 240, Article 122629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2026.122629

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

Mahata, C., Mishra, S., & Singh, V. (2026). 3-Hydroxypropionic acid recovery from fermentation broth through novel downstream processing: Technoeconomic analysis. Bioresource Technology, 445, Article 134094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2026.134094

Mishra, S., Qureshi, N., & Singh, V. (2026). Economic Evaluation of Butanol Production and Cost Comparisons. In Renewable Butanol: Fermentation, Process Technology and Biofuel Applications (pp. 447-460). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394231959.ch23

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