Nilesh Kumar Sharma

Employment

• Praj (India) Senior Scientist
  2023 - Present
• Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. (United States) Senior Organism Engineer
  2022 - 2022
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute Postdoctoral Researcher
  2020 - 2022
• University of Georgia Visiting Research Scholar
  2018 - 2018
• Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy Senior Research Fellow
  2013 - 2018

Education

• SSS-National Institute of Bio-Energy/IKG Punjab Technical University PhD
  2014 - 2018

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (20)

• Evolutionary Adaptation to Enhance Xylose Metabolism in Thermotolerant Kluyveromyces Marxianus
  INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY 2025 DOI: 10.1089/IND.2025.0015
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• Combinatorial metabolic engineering of alkane biosynthesis in the osmotolerant yeast Debaryomyces hansenii CBS 767
  bioRxiv 2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.23.684212
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• Augmentation of Bio-butanol Production Through Isolation, Screening and Optimization of Growth and Fermentation Parameters Using Response Surface Methodology
  SUGAR TECH 2023 DOI: 10.1007/S12355-022-01187-3
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• Food Waste to Bioethanol: Opportunities and Challenges
  FERMENTATION-BASEL 2023 DOI: 10.3390/FERMENTATION9010008
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• Genetic basis for probiotic yeast phenotypes revealed by nanopore sequencing
  G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2023 DOI: 10.1093/G3JOURNAL/JKAD093
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• Bioprospecting Saccharification of Alkali Pretreated Paddy Straw through Statistically Designed Parameters for Biofuel Production
  Industrial Biotechnology 2020 DOI: 10.1089/ind.2020.0015
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• Evaluating the Pathway for Co-fermentation of Glucose and Xylose for Enhanced Bioethanol Production Using Flux Balance Analysis
  BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING 2019 DOI: 10.1007/S12257-019-0026-5
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• Lignocellulosic Ethanol: Feedstocks and Bioprocessing
  BIOETHANOL PRODUCTION FROM FOOD CROPS: SUSTAINABLE SOURCES, INTERVENTIONS AND CHALLENGES 2019 DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-813766-6.00009-6
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• Removal of aromatic inhibitors produced from lignocellulosic hydrolysates by Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 with formation of ethanol by Kluyveromyces marxianus
  BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2019 DOI: 10.1186/S13068-019-1434-7
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• Xylose transport in yeast for lignocellulosic ethanol production: Current status
  JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING 2018 DOI: 10.1016/J.JBIOSC.2017.10.006
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