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Elaina M. Blair

University of California, Santa Barbara

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Engineering anaerobic fungal-bacterial consortia for direct conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into medium-chain fatty acids

Byung-Chul Kim, Elaina M. Blair, Joel P. Howard, Ian Mateus Gois, Robert Flick, Thomas S. Lankiewicz, Stephen James Mondo, Jasmyn L. Pangilinan, Anna Lipzen, Jie Qiang Guo, Hope N. Hundley, Raymond Lee, Jayson Talag, Victoria Mae Bunting, Shanmugam Rajasekar, , Christopher E. Lawson

This study engineers an anaerobic fungal-bacterial consortium to convert lignocellulosic biomass into medium-chain fatty acids without pretreatment, achieving a 21.0% conversion yield.

Trends in biotechnology · Oct 1, 2026Peer-reviewedBioengineering

Genomic and Transcriptomic Characterization of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes in the Anaerobic Fungus Neocallimastix cameroonii var. constans

Elaina M. Blair, Tejas A. Navaratna, Colleen B. Ahern, Ramya Ragunathan, Jennifer L. Brown, Stephen James Mondo, Anna Lipzen, Radwa A. Hanafy, Kurt M. LaButti, Jayson Talag, Kerrie Barry, Mansi Chovatia, Mei Wang, Jessy Gonzalez, Xuefeng Peng, , Michelle Ann O'Malley

This paper characterizes the genomic and transcriptomic features of Neocallimastix cameroonii var. constans, an anaerobic fungus, revealing its capacity to degrade lignocellulose and identifying key carbohydrate-active enzymes.

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Jun 16, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology