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89
Citations
41959
World Ranking
2504
National Ranking
1317

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lee R. Lynd is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Engineering. Their academic work spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Materials Chemistry.

Their primary research topics cover areas such as biofuel production and bioconversion, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, enzyme production and characterization, catalysis for biomass conversion, enzyme structure and function, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, and enzyme catalysis and immobilization.

Lee R. Lynd has authored numerous scientific papers, some of which have attracted significant citations. Among recent publications are the following:

  • Toward low-cost biological and hybrid biological/catalytic conversion of cellulosic biomass to fuels (2022), Energy & Environmental Science
  • Robust paths to net greenhouse gas mitigation and negative emissions via advanced biofuels (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Metabolic and evolutionary responses of Clostridium thermocellum to genetic interventions aimed at improving ethanol production (2020), Biotechnology for Biofuels
  • Cross-national analysis of food security drivers: comparing results based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale and Global Food Security Index (2021), Food Security
  • Development of a thermophilic coculture for corn fiber conversion to ethanol (2020), Nature Communications

Their frequent coauthors include Daniel G. Olson, Evert K. Holwerda, Daniel Amador-Noguez, Marybeth Maloney, and Richard J. Giannone.

Lee R. Lynd has published regularly in several scientific journals, notably Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, Research Square, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Nature Sustainability.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2011.

Best Publications

  • Microbial cellulose utilization: fundamentals and biotechnology.

    Lee R. Lynd;Paul J. Weimer;Willem H. van Zyl;Isak S. Pretorius

  • Toward an aggregated understanding of enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose: noncomplexed cellulase systems.

    Yi-Heng Percival Zhang;Lee R. Lynd

  • Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma

    David Tilman;Robert Socolow;Jonathan A. Foley;Jason Hill

  • Consolidated bioprocessing of cellulosic biomass: an update.

    Lee R Lynd;Willem H van Zyl;John E McBride;Mark Laser

  • How biotech can transform biofuels

    Lee R Lynd;Mark S Laser;David Bransby;Bruce E Dale

  • Fuel ethanol from cellulosic biomass.

    Lee R. Lynd;Janet H. Cushman;Roberta J. Nichols;Charles E. Wyman

  • OVERVIEW AND EVALUATION OF FUEL ETHANOL FROM CELLULOSIC BIOMASS: Technology, Economics, the Environment, and Policy

    Lee R. Lynd

  • A comparison of liquid hot water and steam pretreatments of sugar cane bagasse for bioconversion to ethanol

    Mark Laser;Deborah Schulman;Stephen G Allen;Joseph Lichwa

  • Fractionating recalcitrant lignocellulose at modest reaction conditions.

    Yi Heng Percival Zhang;Shi You Ding;Jonathan R. Mielenz;Jing Biao Cui

  • Recent progress in consolidated bioprocessing

    Daniel G Olson;John E McBride;A Joe Shaw;Lee R Lynd

  • A transition from cellulose swelling to cellulose dissolution by o-phosphoric acid: evidence from enzymatic hydrolysis and supramolecular structure.

    Y.-H. Percival Zhang;Jingbiao Cui;Lee R Lynd;Lana R Kuang

  • Metabolic engineering of a thermophilic bacterium to produce ethanol at high yield

    A. Joe Shaw;Kara K. Podkaminer;Sunil G. Desai;John S. Bardsley

  • Cellulosic ethanol: status and innovation.

    Lee R Lynd;Xiaoyu Liang;Mary J Biddy;Andrew Allee

  • High-value renewable energy from prairie grasses.

    Samuel B McLaughlin Jr;D. De La Torre Ugarte;Charles T Garten Jr;L. Lynd

  • Likely features and costs of mature biomass ethanol technology.

    Lee R. Lynd;Richard T. Elander;Charles E. Wyman

  • Consolidated bioprocessing for bioethanol production using Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Willem H. van Zyl;Lee R. Lynd;Riaan den Haan;John E. McBride

  • High Ethanol Titers from Cellulose by Using Metabolically Engineered Thermophilic, Anaerobic Microbes†‡

    D. Aaron Argyros;Shital A. Tripathi;Trisha F. Barrett;Stephen R. Rogers

  • Large‐scale production, harvest and logistics of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) – current technology and envisioning a mature technology

    Shahab Sokhansanj;Sudhagar Mani;Anthony Turhollow;Amit Kumar

  • Determination of the Number-Average Degree of Polymerization of Cellodextrins and Cellulose with Application to Enzymatic Hydrolysis

    Y-H Percival Zhang;Lee R Lynd

  • Metabolic engineering of a thermophilic bacterium to produce ethanol at high yield

    A. J. Shaw;K. K. Podkaminer;S. G. Desai;J. S. Bardsley

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam M. Guss
Adam M. Guss Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Charles E. Wyman
Charles E. Wyman University of California, Riverside
Bruce E. Dale
Bruce E. Dale Michigan State University
Michael E. Himmel
Michael E. Himmel National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Mark F. Davis
Mark F. Davis National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Robert L. Hettich
Robert L. Hettich Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Brian H. Davison
Brian H. Davison Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Steven D. Brown
Steven D. Brown LanzaTech (New Zealand)
Willem H. van Zyl
Willem H. van Zyl Stellenbosch University
Tom L. Richard
Tom L. Richard Pennsylvania State University

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