Thomas W. Jeffries
Former Employee
Research Microbiologist
Treesearch Publications
- Jinlan Cheng, Shao-Yuan Leu, Junyong Zhu, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2014. Ethanol production from non-detoxified whole slurry of sulfite-pretreated empty fruit bunches at a low cellulase loading
- Outi M. Koivistoinen, Mikko Arvas, Jennifer R. Headman, Martina Andberg, Merja Penttilä, Thomas W. Jeffries, Peter Richard. 2012. Characterisation of the gene cluster for L-rhamnose catabolism in the yeast Scheffersomyces (Pichia) stipitis
- Yi-Kai Su, Jennifer Headman, Alan Higbee, Laura B. Willis, Tanya M. Long, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2012. Cofermentation of Glucose, Xylose, and Cellobiose by the Beetle-Associated Yeast Spathaspora passalidarum
- Rita C.L.B. Rodrigues, William R. Kenealy, Diane Dietrich, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2012. Response surface methodology (RSM) to evaluate moisture effects on corn stover in recovering xylose by DEO hydrolysis
- Gionata Scalcinati, Jose´ Manuel Otero, Jennifer R.H. Van Vleet, Thomas W. Jeffries, Lisbeth Olsson, Jens Nielsen. 2012. Evolutionary engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for efficient aerobic xylose consumption
- Danilo Scordia, Salvatore L. Cosentino, Jae-Won Lee, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2012. Bioconversion of giant reed (Arundo donax L.) hemicellulose hydrolysate to ethanol by Scheffersomyces stipitis CBS6054
- Junyong Zhu, Danilo Scordia, Thomas W. Jeffries, Jae-Won Lee. 2011. Evaluation of ethanol production from corncob using Scheffersomyces (Pichia) stipitis CBS 6054 by volumetric scale-up
- Igor.V. Grigoriev, Daniel Cullen, Stephen B. Goodwin, David Hibbett, Thomas W. Jeffries, Christian P. Kubicek, Cheryl Kuske, Jon K. Magnuson, Francis Martin, Joseph W. Spatafora, Adrian Tsang, Scott E. Baker. 2011. Fueling the future with fungal genomics
- Rita C.L.B. Rodrigues, William R. Kenealy, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2011. Xylitol production from DEO hydrolysate of corn stover by Pichia stipitis YS-30
- Salvatore L. Cosentino, Jae-Won Lee, Thomas W. Jeffries, Danilo Scordia. 2011. Dilute oxalic acid pretreatment for biorefining giant reed (Arundo donax L.)
- Jae-Won Lee, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2011. Efficiencies of acid catalysts in the hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass over a range of combined severity factors
- Thomas W. Jeffries, Hassan K. Sreenath. 2011. Interactions of fungi from fermented sausage with regenerated cellulose casings
- Dana J. Wolbach, Alan Kuo, Trey K. Sato, Katlyn M. Potts, Asaf A. Salamov, Kurt M. LaButti, Hui Sun, Alicia Clum, Jasmyn L. Pangilinan, Erika A. Lindquist, Susan Lucas, Alla Lapidus, Mingjie Jin, Christa Gunawan, Venkatesh Balan, Bruce E. Dale, Thomas W. Jeffries, Robert Zinkel, Kerrie W. Barry, Igor V. Grigoriev, Audrey P. Gasch. 2011. Comparative genomics of xylose-fermenting fungi for enhanced biofuel production
- Carl J. Houtman, Hye-Yun Kim, Jae-Won Lee, In-Gyu Choi, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2011. Scale-up study of oxalic acid pretreatment of agricultural lignocellulosic biomass for the production of bioethanol
- G.S. Wang, Jae-Won Lee, Junyong Zhu, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2011. Dilute acid pretreatment of corncob for efficient sugar production
- Jae-Won Lee, Rita C.L.B. Rodrigues, Hyun Joo Kim, In-Gyu Choi, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2010. The roles of xylan and lignin in oxalic acid pretreated corncob during separate enzymatic hydrolysis and ethanol fermentation
- Danilo Scordia, Salvatore L. Consentino, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2010. Second generation bioethanol production from Saccharum spontaneum L. ssp. aegyptiacum (Willd.) Hack.
- Jennifer Van Vleet, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2009. Yeast metabolic engineering for hemicellulosic ethanol production
- Jae-Won Lee, Rita C.L.B. Rodrigues, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2009. Simultaneous saccharification and ethanol fermentation of oxalic acid pretreated corncob assessed with response surface methodology
- Thomas W. Jeffries, Jennifer R. Headman Van Vleet. 2009. Pichia stipitis genomics, transcriptomics, and gene clusters
- Jennifer Van Vleet, Thomas W. Jeffries, Lisbeth Olsson. 2008. Deleting the para-nitrophenyl phosphatase (pNPPase), PHO13, in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae improves growth and ethanol production on D-xylose
- Thomas W. Jeffries. 2008. Engineering the Pichia stipitis genome for fermentation of hemicellulose hydrolysates
- Douglas R. Smith, Aaron R. Quinlan, Heather E. Peckham, Kathryn Makowsky, Wei Tao, Betty Woolf, Lei Shen, William F. Donahue, Nadeem Tusneem, Michael P. Stromberg, Donald A. Stewart, Lu Zhang, Swati S. Ranade, Jason B. Warner, Clarence C. Lee, Brittney E. Coleman, Zheng Zhang, Stephen F. McLaughlin, Joel A. Malek, Jon M. Sorenson, Alan P. Blanchard, Jarrod Chapman, David Hillman, Feng Chen, Daniel S. Rokhsar, Kevin J. McKernan, Thomas W. Jeffries, Gabor T. Marth, Paul M. Richardson. 2008. Rapid whole-genome mutational profiling using next-generation sequencing technologies
- Rita C.L.B. Rodrigues, Chenfeng Lu, Bernice Liu, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2008. Fermentation kinetics for xylitol production by a Pichia stipitis D-xylulokinase mutant previously grown in spent sulfite liquor
- Ju Yun Bae, Jose Laplaza, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2008. Effects of gene orientation and use of multiple promoters on the expression of XYL1 and XYL2 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Thomas W. Jeffries, Igor V. Grigroriev, Jane Grimwood, Jose M. Laplaza, Andrea Aerts, Asaf Salamov, Jeremy Schmutz, Erika Lindquist, Paramvir Dehal, Harris Shapiro, Yong-Su Jin, Volkmar Passoth, Paul M. Richardson. 2007. Genome sequence of the lignocellulose-bioconverting and xylose-fermenting yeast Pichia stipitis
- Haiying Ni, Jose M. Laplaza, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2007. Transposon mutagenesis to improve the growth of recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae on D-xylose
- William R. Kenealy, Carl J. Houtman, Jose Laplaza, Thomas W. Jeffries, Eric G. Horn. 2007. Pretreatments for converting wood into paper and chemicals
- Chenfeng Lu, Karen Mansoorabadi, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2007. Comparison of multiple gene assembly methods for metabolic engineering
- Frank K. Agbogbo, Guillermo Coward-Kelly, Mads Torry-Smith, Kevin Wenger, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2007. The effect of initial cell concentration on xylose fermentation by Pichia stipitis
- Chengfeng Lu, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2007. Shuffling of promoters for multiple genes to optimize xylose fermentation in an engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain
- Thomas W. Jeffries. 2006. Engineering yeasts for xylose metabolism
- Jose M. Laplaza, Beatriz Rivas Torres, Yong-Su Jin, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2006. Sh ble and Cre adapted for functional genomics and metabolic engineering of Pichia stipitis
- Yong-Su Jin, Jose Cruz, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2005. Xylitol production by a Pichia stipitis D-xylulokinase mutant
- Thomas W. Jeffries. 2005. Ethanol fermentation on the move
- Yong-Su Jin, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2004. Stoichiometric network constraints on xylose metabolism by recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Yong-Su Jin, Jose M. Laplaza, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2004. Saccharomyces cerevisiae engineered for xylose metabolism exhibits a respiratory response
- William R. Kenealy, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2003. Rapid 2,2'-bicinchoninic-based xylanase assay compatible with high throughput screening
- James S. McLaren, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2003. Genetics and genomics in bioenergy and bioproducts
- William R. Kenealy, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2003. Enzyme processes for pulp and paper : a review of recent developments
- Yong-Su Jin, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2003. Changing flux of xylose metabolites by altering expression of xylose reductase and xylitol dehydrogenase in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Min Hyung Kang, Haiying Ni, Thomas W. Jeffries. 2003. Molecular characterization of a gene for aldose reductase (CbXYL1) from Candida boidinii and its expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Richard J. Baerends, Grietje J. Sulter, Thomas W. Jeffries, James M. Cregg, Marten Veenhuis. 2002. Molecular characterization of the Hansenula polymorpha FLD1 gene encoding formaldehyde dehydrogenase.
- Thomas W. Jeffries, Yong-Su Jin. 2000. Ethanol and thermotolerance in the bioconversion of xylose by yeasts
- Nian-Qing Shi, Brian Davis, Fred Sherman, Jose Cruz, Thomas W. Jeffries. 1999. Disruption of the cytochrome c gene in xylose-utilizing yeast Pichia stipitis leads to higher ethanol production
- Thomas W. Jeffries, N. Q. Shi, J. Y. Cho, P. Lu, K. Dahn, J. Hendrick, H. K. Sreenath. 1998. Genetic engineering of Pichia stipitis for fermentation of xylose
- Hassan K. Sreenath, Thomas W. Jeffries. 1998. 2-deoxyglucose as a selective agent for derepressed mutants of Pichia stipitis
- Thomas W. Jeffries, Mark Davis, Brian Rosin, Larry L. Landucci. 1998. Mechanisms for kappa reduction and color removal by xylanases
- John F. Harris, Andrew J. Baker, Anthony H. Conner, Thomas W. Jeffries, James L. Minor, Roger C. Pettersen, Ralph W. Scott, Edward L Springer, Theodore H. Wegner, John I. Zerbe. 1985. Two-stage, dilute sulfuric acid hydrolysis of wood : an investigation of fundamentals
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