Publications

This list contains all academic publications authored by Sarah M. Coleman. Co-first authorship is indicated by an asterisk (*), and Sarah’s name appears in bold font. Publications are first ordered by article type, then authorship order, and finally year.

Original research articles

  1. Coleman, S. M., & Peng, R. D. (2026). Do ozone action day alerts modulate active transportation in Texas cities? Environmental Research Communications. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ae2e99

  2. Coleman, S. M.*, Marx, R. J. *, Martinez, M. K., Silvera, A. J., Park, J., Ramanan, E., Kaown, G., Yoon, S., Xie, D., & Alper, H. S. (2024). Considerations Regarding High Oil Density Bioreactor-Scale Fermentations of Yarrowia lipolytica Using CFD Modeling and Experimental Validation. Biotechnology Journal, 19(12), e202400506. https://doi.org/10.1002/biot.202400506

  3. Coleman, S. M.*, Cordova, L. T.*, Lad, B. C., Ali, S. A., Ramanan, E., Collett, J. R., & Alper, H. S. (2023). Evolving tolerance of Yarrowia lipolytica to hydrothermal liquefaction aqueous phase waste. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-023-12393-8

  4. Gordiichuk, P., Coleman, S., Zhang, G., Kuehne, M., Lew, T. T. S., Park, M., Cui, J., Brooks, A. M., Hudson, K., Graziano, A. M., Marshall, D. J. M., Karsan, Z., Kennedy, S., & Strano, M. S. (2021). Augmenting the living plant mesophyll into a photonic capacitor. Science Advances, 7(37), eabe9733. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe9733

  5. Gordillo Sierra, A. R., Yook, S., Coleman, S., Bansal, M., & Alper, H. S. (2025). Developing a Yarrowia lipolytica platform for conversion of mannitol-containing waste streams. Bioresource Technology, 133161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2025.133161

  6. Presnell, K. V., Melhem, O., Coleman, S. M., Morse, N. J., & Alper, H. S. (2024). Design and synthesis of synthetic promoters for consistency of gene expression across growth phases and scale in S. cerevisiae. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synbio.2024.03.004

  7. Qin, J., Liu, N., Abid, U., Coleman, S. M., Wang, Y., Fu, Q., Yoon, S., Alper, H. S., & Xie, D. (2025). Metabolic Engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica for Conversion of Waste Cooking Oil into Omega-3 Eicosapentaenoic Acid. ACS Engineering Au, 5(2), 128–139. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsengineeringau.4c00053

  8. Yuan, S.-F., Nair, P. H., Borbon, D., Coleman, S. M., Fan, P.-H., Lin, W.-L., & Alper, H. S. (2022). Metabolic engineering of E. coli for β-alanine production using a multi-biosensor enabled approach. Metabolic Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2022.08.012

  9. Marsan, C. B., Lee, S. G., Nguyen, A., Sierra, A. R. G., Coleman, S. M., Brooks, S. M., & Alper, H. S. (2024). Leveraging a Y. lipolytica naringenin chassis for biosynthesis of apigenin and associated glucoside. Metabolic Engineering, 83, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2024.02.018

  10. Graham, A. J., Partipilo, G., Dundas, C. M., Miniel Mahfoud, I. E., Halwachs, K. N., Holwerda, A. J., Simmons, T. R., FitzSimons, T. M., Coleman, S. M., Rinehart, R., Chiu, D., Tyndall, A. E., Sajbel, K. C., Rosales, A. M., & Keitz, B. K. (2024). Transcriptional regulation of living materials via extracellular electron transfer. Nature Chemical Biology, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-024-01628-y

Research review articles

  1. Soong, Y.-H. V.*, Coleman, S. M.*, Liu, N., Qin, J., Lawton, C., Alper, H. S., & Xie, D. (2023). Using oils and fats to replace sugars as feedstocks for biomanufacturing: Challenges and opportunities for the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. Biotechnology Advances, 108128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2023.108128

  2. Lad, B. C.*, Coleman, S. M.*, & Alper, H. S. (2021). Microbial valorization of underutilized and nonconventional waste streams. Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1093/jimb/kuab056

Preprints

  1. Partipilo, G.*, Coleman, S. M.*, Gao, Y., Miniel Mahfoud, I. E., Wilke, C. O., Alper, H. S., & Keitz, B. K. (2024). A Linear Mixed Effects Model for Evaluating Synthetic Gene Circuits. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.30.630778