2016 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Biotechnology for Energy, Chemicals, and Materials (Invited Industrial Talks)

This session will feature invited talks from companies on the application of synthetic biology to develop biosynthetic routes to biofuels, commodity and bulk chemicals, and materials.

Chair

Amy J. Karlsson, University of Maryland

Co-Chair

Kristy M. Hawkins, California Institute of Technology

Presentations

08:30 AM

(460a) Next-Generation Testing Platform for Strain Optimization, Screening, and Fermentation Testing
Michael D. Leavell

08:48 AM

(460b) Harnessing Biological Complexity and Diversity through Metabolic Engineering: The Manus Bio Approach
Christine Santos

09:06 AM

(460c) The Emerging Organism Engineering Industry
Reshma Shetty

09:24 AM

(460d) General Purposing Synthetic Biology:  a Biofoundry in a Box
Eileen Spindler

09:48 AM

(460h) Making Silk without Silkworms: Using Industrial Biotechnology to Make Performance Protein-Based Fibers
David N. Breslauer

10:06 AM

(460f) The Development of Platform-Based Technologies for the Optimization of Sustainably Produced Chemicals
Stephanie J. Culler

10:24 AM

(460g) Hydraulic Enhancement of Crops for Higher Harvest Yields
Travis S. Bayer

10:42 AM

(460i) Imagine, Design, Create – Cloud Based Software for Biological Design
Eli Groban