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Nilesh Kumar Sharma

Worcester Polytechnic InstituteORCID 0000-0002-7288-1535Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Organism:fungi (other)· 1 Organism:yeast· 1

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Eric M. YoungiD· 2 shared Allison J. TaggartiD· 1 shared Andrés Felipe Carrillo RincóniD· 1 shared Jaclyn Thompson· 1 shared Jacob BealiD· 1 shared Jaya A. GuptaiD· 1 shared Miles T. RogersiD· 1 shared Natalie Gilks Farny· 1 shared

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2026-2026 · peak 2/yr

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Fungal Highways Enable Underground Biosensors

Jaya A. Gupta, Nilesh Kumar Sharma, Jaclyn Thompson, Andrés Felipe Carrillo Rincón, Trent Jones, Allison J. Taggart, Miles T. Rogers, Jacob Beal, Natalie Gilks Farny, Eric M. Young

This study develops underground biosensors using fungal-bacterial networks to propagate synthetic genetic signals through soil.

bioRxiv · Oct 16, 2026 · PreprintSynthetic Biology

Combinatorial metabolic engineering of alkane biosynthesis in the osmotolerant yeast Debaryomyces hansenii CBS 767

Zekun Li, Nilesh Kumar Sharma, Sarah J. Weintraub, Eric M. Young

This paper enables combinatorial metabolic engineering in Debaryomyces hansenii by developing genetic parts and integration loci, resulting in a high titer of heptadecane production.

Biotechnology and Bioengineering · Aug 31, 2026Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology