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Citations
12181
World Ranking
8396
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3779

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1999 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Ka-Yiu San is affiliated with Rice University in the United States, with research primarily centered on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields, including molecular biology, biomedical engineering, genetics, ecology, and food science.

The scientist's research interests encompass several topics relevant to microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, biofuel production and bioconversion, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, food waste reduction and sustainability, process optimization and integration, and enzyme catalysis and immobilization.

Frequent publication venues for Ka-Yiu San include:

  • Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Fuel
  • Biochemical Engineering Journal

They have contributed recent scientific papers such as:

  • Single cell protein production from food waste using purple non-sulfur bacteria shows economically viable protein products have higher environmental impacts, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Life cycle environmental and cost evaluation of renewable diesel production, 2020, Fuel
  • Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli to produce succinate from woody hydrolysate under anaerobic conditions, 2020, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
  • Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for malate production with a temperature sensitive malate dehydrogenase, 2020, Biochemical Engineering Journal
  • Genetic sensor-regulators functional in Clostridia, 2020, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Ka-Yiu San frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • George N. Bennett
  • Mukund Karanjikar
  • Fayin Zhu
  • Zachary W. LaTurner

Recognition for their scientific contributions includes fellowships with professional associations:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2014
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 1999

Best Publications

  • Novel pathway engineering design of the anaerobic central metabolic pathway in Escherichia coli to increase succinate yield and productivity

    Ailen M. Sánchez;George N. Bennett;Ka-Yiu San

  • Studies on on-line bioreactor identification. I. Theory.

    Gregory Stephanopoulos;Ka-Yiu San

  • Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli: Increase of NADH Availability by Overexpressing an NAD+-Dependent Formate Dehydrogenase

    Susana J Berríos-Rivera;George N Bennett;Ka-Yiu San

  • Metabolic engineering through cofactor manipulation and its effects on metabolic flux redistribution in Escherichia coli.

    Ka-Yiu San;George N. Bennett;Susana J. Berrı́os-Rivera;Ravi V. Vadali

  • Metabolic engineering of aerobic succinate production systems in Escherichia coli to improve process productivity and achieve the maximum theoretical succinate yield

    Henry Lin;George N. Bennett;Ka-Yiu San

  • Efficient Succinic Acid Production from Glucose through Overexpression of Pyruvate Carboxylase in an Escherichia coli Alcohol Dehydrogenase and Lactate Dehydrogenase Mutant

    Ailen M. Sánchez;George N. Bennett;Ka-Yiu San

  • Succinate production in Escherichia coli

    Chandresh Thakker;Irene Martínez;Ka-Yiu San;George N. Bennett

  • Process identification using neural networks

    J.F. Pollard;M.R. Broussard;D.B. Garrison;K.Y. San

  • Replacing Escherichia coli NAD-dependent glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) with a NADP-dependent enzyme from Clostridium acetobutylicum facilitates NADPH dependent pathways.

    Irene Martínez;Jiangfeng Zhu;Henry Lin;George N. Bennett

  • Transcriptional response of the terpenoid indole alkaloid pathway to the overexpression of ORCA3 along with jasmonic acid elicitation of Catharanthus roseus hairy roots over time.

    Christie A.M. Peebles;Erik H. Hughes;Jacqueline V. Shanks;Ka-Yiu San

  • The effect of increasing NADH availability on the redistribution of metabolic fluxes in Escherichia coli chemostat cultures.

    Susana J. Berrı́os-Rivera;George N. Bennett;Ka-Yiu San

  • Fed-batch culture of a metabolically engineered Escherichia coli strain designed for high-level succinate production and yield under aerobic conditions.

    Henry Lin;George N. Bennett;Ka-Yiu San

  • Cofactor engineering for advancing chemical biotechnology

    Yipeng Wang;Ka-Yiu San;George N Bennett

  • Effect of ArcA and FNR on the expression of genes related to the oxygen regulation and the glycolysis pathway in Escherichia coli under microaerobic growth conditions

    Sagit Shalel-Levanon;Ka-Yiu San;George N. Bennett

  • Efficient free fatty acid production in Escherichia coli using plant acyl-ACP thioesterases

    Xiujun Zhang;Mai Li;Arpita Agrawal;Ka-Yiu San

  • Effect of oxygen on the Escherichia coli ArcA and FNR regulation systems and metabolic responses.

    Sagit Shalel Levanon;Ka-Yiu San;George N. Bennett

  • Effect of Sorghum vulgare phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and Lactococcus lactis pyruvate carboxylase coexpression on succinate production in mutant strains of Escherichia coli.

    Henry Lin;Ka-Yiu San;George N. Bennett

  • Genetic Reconstruction of the Aerobic Central Metabolism in Escherichia coli for the Absolute Aerobic Production of Succinate

    Henry Lin;George N. Bennett;Ka-Yiu San

  • Redistribution of metabolic fluxes in the central aerobic metabolic pathway of E. coli mutant strains with deletion of the ackA-pta and poxB pathways for the synthesis of isoamyl acetate.

    Cheryl R. Dittrich;Ravishankar V. Vadali;George N. Bennett;Ka-Yiu San

  • Airway mechanics, gas exchange, and blood flow in a nonlinear model of the normal human lung

    C. H. Liu;S. C. Niranjan;J. W. Clark;K. Y. San

Frequent Co-Authors

George N. Bennett
George N. Bennett Rice University
Ill-Min Chung
Ill-Min Chung Konkuk University
Sabrina Spatari
Sabrina Spatari Drexel University
Pablo I. Nikel
Pablo I. Nikel Technical University of Denmark
William L. Rooney
William L. Rooney Texas A&M University
Eran Pichersky
Eran Pichersky University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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