2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Microbial Pathway Engineering

Chair

Arul Mozhy Varman, Arizona State University

Co-Chairs

Ryan Summers, University of Alabama
Sijin Li, Cornell University

Presentations

08:00 AM

(424a) Extending the Degradation of Charged Amino Acids for CoA-Free Synthesis of Short-Chain (C3-C5) Diols Using Promiscuous Carboxylic Acid Reductase
Chenyi Li, Jian Wang, Yusong Zou, Yajun Yan

08:15 AM

(424b) Engineering of Phytosterol-Producing Yeast Platforms for Functional Reconstitution of Downstream Biosynthetic Pathways
Yanran Li, Shanhui Xu

08:30 AM

(424c) De Novo biosynthesis of a Nitro-Containing Amino Acid
Lucas B.C. Brown, Neil Butler, Aditya Kunjapur, Minwei Lin

08:45 AM

(424d) Shikimate Pathway Refactoring in the Non-Conventional Yeast Kluyveromyces Marxianus Enables High Titer Production of 2-Phenylethanol
Mengwan Li, Xuye Lang, Nancy Da Silva, Pamela B. Besada-Lombana, Ian Wheeldon

09:00 AM

(424e) A Polyketide Synthase Platform to Produce Biofuels and Specialty Chemicals (Faculty Candidate)
Ravi Lal, Amin Zargar, Luis Valencia, Samantha Chang, Miranda Werts, Andrew Wong, Arthur Loubat, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Kothari Ankita, Edward E. K. Baidoo, Leonard Katz, Jay Keasling, Amanda Hernandez

09:15 AM

(424f) One-Pot Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass Components Via Engineered Bacillus Subtillis.
Apurv Mhatre, Arul Mozhy Varman, Thiagarajan Soundappan, Bethany Kalsheur

09:30 AM

(424g) Engineering Bacteria Phospholipid Pathways for Diverse Fatty Acid Profiles (Invited Speaker)
Fuzhong Zhang