Session: Metabolic Engineering for Non-traditional Feedstock Utilization

Metabolic Engineering for Non-traditional Feedstock Utilization will focus on recent advances in engineering microbial systems to convert non-traditional feedstocks, such as lignocellulosic biomass (e.g., lignin), plastic waste, C1 compounds (including relevant derivatives and reduction intermediates), and industrial off-gases, into valuable chemicals, fuels, and materials. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: pathway design, enzyme engineering, host strain optimization, and systems-level approaches enabling microbes to efficiently utilize these challenging substrates.