Education

MS Chemical Engineering, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA, 2014

Current position

PhD Candidate, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California Riverside, USA

Publications

1. Schwartz, C., Frogue, K., Misa, J. and Wheeldon, I. (2017). Host and Pathway Engineering for Enhanced Lycopene Biosynthesis in Yarrowia lipolytica. Front Microbiol 8: 2233.
   
2. Lobs, A. K., Schwartz, C. and Wheeldon, I. (2017). Genome and metabolic engineering in non-conventional yeasts: Current advances and applications. Synth Syst Biotechnol 2(3): 198-207.
   
3. Schwartz, C., Frogue, K., Ramesh, A., Misa, J. and Wheeldon, I. (2017). CRISPRi repression of nonhomologous end-joining for enhanced genome engineering via homologous recombination in Yarrowia lipolytica. Biotechnol Bioeng 114(12): 2896-2906.
   
4. Lobs, A. K., Engel, R., Schwartz, C., Flores, A. and Wheeldon, I. (2017). CRISPR-Cas9-enabled genetic disruptions for understanding ethanol and ethyl acetate biosynthesis in Kluyveromyces marxianus. Biotechnol Biofuels 10: 164.
   
5. Schwartz, C., Shabbir-Hussain, M., Frogue, K., Blenner, M. and Wheeldon, I. (2017). Standardized Markerless Gene Integration for Pathway Engineering in Yarrowia lipolytica. ACS Synth Biol 6(3): 402-409.
   
6. Schwartz, C. M., Hussain, M. S., Blenner, M. and Wheeldon, I. (2016). Synthetic RNA Polymerase III Promoters Facilitate High-Efficiency CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Genome Editing in Yarrowia lipolytica. ACS Synth Biol 5(4): 356-359.