Vanderbilt University Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Education

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 2005

B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1999

Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005–08

Contact Information

Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B, Box 351604
Nashville, TN 37235-1304

Phone: (615) 343-4253
FAX: (615) 343-7951

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Research

Metabolic engineering; systems biology; diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders; tumor metabolism; autotrophic metabolism

Selected Publications

J. D. Young, K. L. Henne, J. A. Morgan, A. E. Konopka and D. Ramkrishna. Integrating cybernetic modeling with pathway analysis provides a dynamic, systems-level description of metabolic control. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 100:542–59, 2008.

J. D. Young, J. L. Walther, M. R. Antoniewicz, H. Yoo and G. Stephanopoulos. An elementary metabolite unit (EMU) based method of isotopically nonstationary flux analysis. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 99:686–99, 2008.

J. D. Young and D. Ramkrishna. On the matching and proportional laws of cybernetic models. Biotechnology Progress 23:83–99, 2007.

J. D. Young, K. L. Henne, J. A. Morgan, A. E. Konopka and D. Ramkrishna. Cyber-
netic modeling of metabolism: towards a framework for rational design of recombinant organisms. Chemical Engineering Science 59:5041–9, 2004.