Publications

Book
1. Emerging Environmental Technologies (2008) Ed. Vishal Shah. Published by Springer Publications.

Current Publications
1. Vishal Shah, Irina Belerazova (2008) Influence of Nanoparticles on Soil Microbial Community Water, Air, Soil Pollution. In Press.
2. Bahati Dramou, Vishal Shah, Jose Pinto (2008) A Kinetic Model for Microbial Decontamination of Water Based on a Modified Fenton Reaction. Energy & Environmental Science. In Press.
3. Fred Rispoli, Vishal Shah (2008) Optimization of the Media Ingredients for Cutinase Production from Colleotrichum lindemuthianum using Mixture Design Experiments. Biotechnology Progress. 24, 648-654.
4. Fred Rispoli, Vishal Shah (2007) Mixture design as a first step for optimization of fermentation medium for cutinase production. Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology. 34, 349-355.
5. Vishal Shah, Mia Jurjevic, Daniel Badia (2007) Utilization of Restaurant Waste Oil as a Precursor for Sophorolipid Production. Biotechnology Progress 23, 512-515.
6. Vishal Shah, Daniel Badia (2007) Sophorolipids having enhanced antibacterial activity. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 51, 397-400.
7. Shreya Shah, Boris Dzikovski, Vishal Shah (2007) Development of a new approach for microbial decontamination of flood water using modified Fenton’s reaction. Environmental Pollution. 148, 674-678.

Other Publications

Reviews
1. Vishal Shah and Frantisek Nerud (2002) Lignin degrading system of white rot fungi and its exploitation for dye decolorization. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 48, 857-870.
2. Datta Madamwar, Nikki Garg and Vishal Shah (2000) Cyanobacterial hydrogen production. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 16, 757 – 767.

Research Articles
1. Vishal Shah, Petr Baldrian, Ivana Eichlerova, Rachna Dave,Datta Madamwar, Frantisek Nerud, Richard Gross (2006) Influence of dimethyl sulfoxide on extracellular enzyme production by Pleurotus ostreatus. Biotechnology Letters. 28: 651-655.
2. Hardin, R., Pierre, J., Schulze, R., Mueller, C.M., Fu, S., Walner, S., Stanek, A., Shah, V., Gross R, Weedon, J., Nowakowski, M., Zenilman, M., Bluth, M.H. (2007) Sophorolipids improve sepsis survival: Effects of dosing and derivatives. Journal of Surgical Research. 142, 314-319.
3. Arthur Felse, Vishal Shah, Jamie Chan, Kandula Rao, Richard Gross. (2007) Production of Sophorolipids by fermentative utilization of fatty acid residues. Enzyme and Microbial Technology. 40: 316-323.
4. Gao, W., Hagver, R., Shah, V., Xie, W., Gross, R. A., Ilker, M. F., Bell, C., Burke, K. A., Coughlin, E. B. (2007) Glycolipid Polymer Synthesized from natural lactonic sophorolipids by ring-opening polymerization. Macromolecules. 40, 145-147
5. Abul Azim, Vishal Shah, Nicholas Peterson, Doncel Gustavo, Wei Gao, Richard Gross (2006) Amino acid conjugated sophorolipids: a new family of functionalized glycolipids. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 17, 1523-1529.
6. Parikh A., Shah V, Madamwar D. (2006) Record of cyanobacterial flora from polluted industrial effluents. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 116, 91-102.
7. Parikh A., Shah V, Madamwar D. (2006) Cyanobacterial flora from polluted marine shores. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 120, 407-414.
8. Vishal Shah, Gustavo Doncel, Theodoros Seyoum, Kristin Eaton, Irina Zalenskaya, Reena Hagver, Abul Azim, Richard Gross (2005) Sophorolipids : novel glycolipid preventive agents for conception and sexual transmission. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 49, 4093-4100.
9. Martin Bluth, Emad Kandil, Catherine Mueller, Vishal Shah, Yin-yao Lin, Hong Zhang, Lisa Dresner, Maja Nowakowski, Richard Gross, Robert Schulz, Michael Zenilman. (2005) Sophorolipids block lethal effects of septic shock in rats in a cecal ligation and puncture model of experimental sepsis. Critical Care Management. 34, 188-195.
10. Vishal Shah, Manish Bhatt, František Nerud. (2005) Copper based fenton’s system for decolorization of synthetic dyes and dye effluents. Asian Journal of Water and Environmental Pollution. 2, 61-64.
11. Shuiqin Zhou, Chang Xu, Feng Wang, Wei Gao, Rena Akhverdiyeva, Vishal Shah, Richard Gross. Supramolecular assemblies of acidic sophorolipid molecules. Langmuir. 20, 7926-7932.
12. Pradeep Verma, Vishal Shah, Peter Baldrian, Jiri Gabriel, Pavel Stopka, Thomas Trnka and František Nerud (2004). Decolorization of Synthetic Dyes using Glucaric acid/Cu(II)/Hydrogen peroxide system. Chemosphere. 54, 291-295.
13. Nerud, F., Baldrian, P., Gabriel, J., Shah, V., Verma, P., Catjhmal, T., Eichlerova, I., Merhautova, V., Stopka, P., Trnka, T. (2003) The use of Free radicals-generating reactions for the degradation of pollutants. In. In Situ and On-site Bioremediation. Ed. Magar, V.S. and Kelley, M.E. Battelle Press, OH, USA.
14. Vishal Shah, Pradeep Verma, Pavel Stopka, Petr Baldrian, J. Gabriel, František Nerud (2003). Decolorization of dyes with copper (II) / organic acid complexes and hydrogen peroxide. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 46, 287-292.
15. Vishal Shah, Nikki Garg and Datta Madamwar (2003). Ultrastructure of the cyanobacterium Nostoc muscorum SPU 005 and its application for hydrogen production. Folia Microbiologica. 48, 65-70.
16. Vishal Shah, Nikki Garg and Datta Madamwar (2001). Record of the marine cyanobacteria from the rocky shores of Bet-Dwarka and Okha, India. Acta Botanica Malacitana 26.
17. Vishal Shah, Nikki Garg and Datta Madamwar (2001). An integrated process of hydrogen evolution and textile dye removal from industrial effluent using a marine cyanobacterium, Phormidium valderianum. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 17, 499-504.
18. J. Gabriel, V. Shah, K. Nesm*rák, P. Baldrian, F. Nerud (2000) Degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by the copper (II)–hydrogen peroxide system. Folia Microbiologica. 45, 573 – 575.
19. Vishal Shah, Nikki Garg and Datta Madamwar (2001) Ultrastructure of the fresh water cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis SPU 003 and its application for oxygen-free hydrogen production. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 194, 71 – 75.
20. Vishal Shah, Nikki Garg and Datta Madamwar (2000) Record of the cyanobacterial flora present in the Hamisar pond of Bhuj, India. Acta Botanica Malacitana. 25, 81 – 85.
21. Vishal Shah, Nikki Garg and Datta Madamwar (2000) Characterization of the Exopolysaccharide produced by a marine cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. Current Microbiology. 40, 274-278.
22. Vishal Shah, Nikki Garg and Datta Madamwar (1999) Exopolysaccharide production by a marine cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. and its application in dye removal by its gelation phenomenon. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology. 82. 81 – 90.

Extended Publications
1. Fu, S. L., Mueller, C., Lin, Y. Y., Viterbo, D., Pierre, J., Shah, V., Gross, R., Schulze, R., Zenilman, M. (2007) Sophorolipid treatment decreases LIPS induced inflammatory responses and NO production in macrophages. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 205 (3), S44.
2. Mueller CM, Lin YY, Viterbo D, Pierre J, Murray SA, Shah V, Gross R, Schulze R, Zenilman ME, Bluth MH (2006) Sophorolipid treatment decreases inflammatory cytokine expression in an in vitro model of experimental sepsis. FASEB Journal. 20, A204.
3. Bluth MH, Smith-Norowitz TA, Hagler M, Beckford R, Chice S, Shah V, Gross R, Nowakowski M, Schulze R, Zenilman ME (2006) Sophorolipids decrease IgE production in U266 cells. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 117, S202.
4. Bluth M.H, Hardin. R., Pierre. J., Chapman, M., Viterbo, D., Lin, Y.Y., Mueller, C.M., Chice, S., Schulze, R., Smith-Norowitz, T.A., Nowakowski, M., Kandil, E., Shah, V., Gross, R.A., Zenilman, M.E.(2005). Sophorolipid Treatment Modulates Leukocyte Adhesion Molecule Profiles In Intra-Abdominal Sepsis. FASEB Journal 19 (part1) A352.

Presentations
• Co-authored more than 30 conference presentations and abstracts.