Peer-Reviewed Articles

2018

11. Genetic engineering of host organisms for pharmaceutical synthesis ​(Review)

J. H. Collins and E. M. Young 
Current Opinion in Biotechnology

10. Iterative algorithm-guided design of massive strain libraries, applied to itaconic acid production in yeast

E. M. Young, Z. Zhao, B. E. M. Gielesen, L. Wu, D. B. Gordon, J. A. Roubos, C. A. Voigt
Metabolic Engineering

9. A pressure test to make 10 molecules in 90 days: External evaluation of methods to engineer biology​

A. Casini*, F.-Y. Chang*, R. Eleure*, A. King*, E. M. Young*, Q. M. Dudley, A. Karim, K. Pratt, C.  Bristol, A. Forget, A. Ghodasara, R. Warden-Rothman, R. Gan, A. Cristofaro, A. E. Borujeni, M.-H. Ryu, J. Li, Y.-C. Kwon, H. Wang, E. Tatsis, C. Rodriguez-Lopez, S. O’Connor, M. H. Mdema, M. A. Fischbach, M. C. Jewett, C. A. Voigt , and D. B. Gordon           (* = Equal contribution)
Journal of the American Chemical Society

2017

8. Formation of nitrogenase nifDK tetramers in the mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

S. Buren, E. M. Young, E. Sweeny, C. A. Voigt, and L. Rubio
ACS Synthetic Biology

2016

7. DoubleDutch: a tool for designing combinatorial libraries of metabolic pathway variants

N. Roehner, E. M. Young, C. A. Voigt, D. B. Gordon, and D. Densmore
​ACS Synthetic Biology

2015

6. Chapter 12: Remaining challenges in the metabolic engineering of yeasts for biofuels (Book Chapter)

S.-M. Lee, E. M. Young, and H. S. Alper 
Direct Microbial Conversion of Biomass to Advanced Biofuels. Editor: M. E. Himmel

2014

5. Rewiring yeast sugar transporter preference through modifying a conserved protein motif

E. M. Young, A. Tong, H. Bui, C. Spofford, and H. S. Alper
Proceedings of the National Academies of Science of the United States of America

2012

4. A molecular transporter engineering approach to improving xylose catabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

E. M. Young, A. D. Comer, H. Huang, and H. S. Alper
Metabolic Engineering

2011

3. Functional survey for heterologous sugar transport proteins, using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a host

E. M. Young, A. Poucher, A. D. Comer, A. Bailey, and H. S. Alper
Applied and Environmental Microbiology

2010

2. Synthetic biology: Tools to design, build, and optimize cellular processes  (Review)

E. M. Young and H. S. Alper
Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology

1. Optimizing pentose utilization in yeast: the need for novel tools and approaches (Review​)

E. M. Young, S.-M. Lee, and H. S. Alper
​Biotechnology for Biofuels

Patents

2. ​Methods for Engineering Sugar Transporter Preferences

H. S. Alper and E. M. Young
Board of Regents, University of Texas System
​​U.S. Patent #9,926,347
​WO2015069796

1. Engineered Xylose Transporters with Reduced Glucose Inhibition

H. S. Alper, E. M. Young, and S.-M. Lee
Board of Regents, University of Texas System
​U.S. Patent #9,695,223
WO2015179701