Engineering Biocatalysts for Renewable Fuel and Chemicals
L.O Ingram, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Engineering unconventional yeasts for improved fermentation of hemicellulosic hydrolysates
Thomas W. Jeffries¹, Sarah D. Mahan¹, Tanya M. Long², Yi-Kai Su³ and Laura B. Willis⁴, (1)Forest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Madison, WI, (2)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, (3)Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, (4)Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

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Synthetic Biology meets Terpenes: What’s after Artemisinin?
Jack Newman, Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, CA

Metabolic engineering to increase production of malonyl-CoA derived products
Tanya Warnecke Lipscomb, A. Trahan, M.K. Lau, F. Watson, C. Mercogliano, A. Singh, J. Peavler, B. Batt, S. Toon, H. Liao, M. Lipscomb and M. Lynch, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Microbial production of a terpene-based advanced biofuel
Taek Soon Lee, Director of Metabolic Engineering, JBEI, Emeryville, CA

Synthetic biology approaches to produce C3-C5 alcohols from microorganisms
Shota Atsumi, University of Californa, Davis, Davis, CA