Stylianos Fakas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food and Animal Sciences at Alabama A&M University, Normal, Alabama, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Food Biotechnology from the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, and completed postdoctoral training at Rutgers University, where he worked on the biochemistry and regulation of phosphatidate phosphatase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. His research focuses on the biochemistry and molecular biology of lipid metabolism in yeasts, with emphasis on the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. His laboratory investigates the enzymes and regulatory mechanisms that govern triacylglycerol biosynthesis, including phosphatidate phosphatase (Pah1) and ATP-citrate lyase, using a combination of biochemical, genetic, and multi-omics approaches.