Advances in Metabolic Engineering for Biofuels

Tuesday, November 10, 2009: 12:30 PM
Jackson A (Gaylord Opryland Hotel)

Description:
The main platform technology for designing biofuels-producing organisms is Metabolic Engineering. This application utilizes the full array of metabolic engineering tools including the application of pathway engineering, global cellular engineering, model-based and non-model based approaches and pathway/flux analysis to improve biofuels production. We invite talks for this session that address engineering challenges for both bioethanol and second-generation biofuels and illustrate the application of sound metabolic engineering principles to the design of biofuels-producing strains.


Sponsor:
Bioengineering


Chair:
Hal Alper
Email: halper@che.utexas.edu

Co-Chair:
Brian Pfleger
Email: pfleger@engr.wisc.edu


1:10 PM

1:30 PM

1:50 PM

2:00 PM
(234e) Biobutanol From Yeast: A Synergistic Genome and Protein Engineering Approach
Nikhil U. Nair, Tae-Hee Lee, Zengyi Shao, Hua Zhao, Ryan P. Sullivan, Tyler Johannes, Michael McLachlan and Huimin Zhao

2:20 PM

2:40 PM
(234g) Computational Pathway Identification and Strain Optimization for Biofuel Production
Patrick F. Suthers, Sridhar Ranganathan and Costas D. Maranas
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