2010 Annual Meeting

Session: Microbial Engineering of Microorganisms for Biofuels and Chemicals II

This session will emphasize metabolic engineering of microorganisms for the conversion of renewable feedstocks to biofuels and chemicals. Emphasis will be given to novel molecular strategies and novel products.

Chair

Rakesh Bajpai, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Co-Chair

Kristala Jones Prather, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presentations

12:30 PM

(474a) Engineering a Fungal Conversion System for the Novel Production of Alkanes
John Blazeck, Hal Alper

12:55 PM

(474b) Engineering Production of Fatty Acid Derived Products in Escherichia Coli through Functional Genomics and High Throughput Screening
Brian F. Pfleger

01:20 PM

(474c) Metabolic Engineering of E.Coli for Increased Production of Novel Fatty Acids
Paul Handke, Sean A. Lynch, Joseph R. Warner, Ryan Gill

01:45 PM

(474d) Engineering of Oleaginous Escherichia Coli for Hydrocarbon Production
Fengming Lin, Yu Chen, Ying-jin Yuan, Xiaoxia (Nina) Lin

02:10 PM

(474e) Increasing Product Tolerance through Metabolic Engineering: Short-Chain Fatty Acids
Liam A. Royce, Matthew Stebbins, Erin Boggess, Julie Dickerson, Laura Jarboe, Ramon Gonzalez, Maria Rodriguez-Moya

02:35 PM

(474f) Microbial Production of High Value-Added Chiral Hydroxyacids
Hsien-Chung Tseng, Catey L. Harwell, Kristala L. J. Prather