Jean VanderGheynst, Professor

Jean S. VanderGheynst

Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
3040 Bainer Hall Hall
Phone: 530-752-0989
Email:jsvander@ucdavis.edu












Dr. VanderGheynstís research addresses problems that involve the transformation, decomposition and conversion of plant biomass to products. ìPlantsî include dedicated crops and algae, food processing residues and urban and agricultural wastes. Her focus is on bioprocess engineering for the production of food and bioenergy; mathematical modeling of transport phenomena and microbial kinetics of biological systems; and microbial ecology of biological systems.

Education

Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Cornell University, 1997

Teaching

  • EBS127
  • EBS267
  • ENG11

    • Scientific and Professional Societies

    American Chemical Society
    Society for Industrial Microbiology

    Research Support

    NSF
    DOE

    Representative Recent Publications

    Zheng Y, Yu C, Cheng Y-S, Lee C, Simmons C, Dooley T, Zhang R, Jenkins B, VanderGheynst JS. 2012. Integrating Sugar Beet Pulp Storage, Hydrolysis and Fermentation for Fuel Ethanol Production. Applied Energy. In press.
    Cheng Y-S, Labavitch J, VanderGheynst J. 2011. High-throughput analysis of hexosamine using a colorimetric method Analytical Biochemistry 408:160-162.
    Cheng Y-S, Labavitch J, VanderGheynst JS. 2011. The impact of cell wall carbohydrate composition on the chitosan flocculation of Chlorella. Process Biochemistry 46(10):1927-1933.
    Joh LD, Rezaei F, Barabote RD, Parales JV, Parales RE, Berry AM, VanderGheynst JS. 2011. Effects of Phenolic Monomers on Growth of Acidothermus cellulolyticus Biotechnology Progress 27(1):23-31.
    Reddy AP, Allgaier M, Singer SW, Hazen TC, Simmons BA, Hugenholtz P, VanderGheynst JS. 2011. Bioenergy feedstock-specific enrichment of microbial populations during high-solids thermophilic deconstruction. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 108(9):2088-2098.
    Allgaier M, Reddy AP, Park JI, Ivanova N, D'haeseleer P, Lowry S, Sapra R, Hazen TC, Simmons BA, VanderGheynst JS, Hugenholtz P. 2010. Targeted Discovery of Glycoside Hydrolases from a Switchgrass-Adapted Compost Community. PLoS One 5(1):e8812.
    Cheng Y-S, Zheng Y, VanderGheynst JS. 2010. Rapid quantitative analysis of lipid using a colorimetric method in a microplate format. Lipids 46:95-103.
    VanderGheynst JS, Dooley TM, Guo H, Scher H, Cheng Y. 2010. Storage and release of solutes and microalgae from water-in-oil emulsions stabilized by silica nanoparticles. Process Biochemistry 45(1):1-6.
    Simmons CW, VanderGheynst JS, Upadhyaya SK. 2009. A Model of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Vacuum Infiltration Into Harvested Leaf Tissue and Subsequent In Planta Transgene Transient Expression. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 102(3):965-970.
    Aslam DN, VanderGheynst JS. 2008. Predicting phytotoxicity of compost-amended soil from compost stability measurements. Environmental Engineering Science 25(1):72-81.