17: Yeast and Fungal Science & Technology

Thursday, May 3, 2012: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM
Napoleon Ballroom A and B, 3rd fl (Sheraton New Orleans)
Chair:
Harald J. Ruijssenaars
1:00 PM
A genome-wide approach to understand the roots of cellulase hyper-secretion in the filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei
Thomas Portnoy1, Frédérique Bidard-Michelot2, Bernhard Seiboth3, Senta Blanquet1, Frédéric Monot1, Scott E. Baker4, Christian P. Kubicek3, Stéphane Le Crom5 and Antoine Margeot1, (1)Chemistry and Physical Chemistry, IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France, (2)Ibens, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, (3)Institute of Chemical Engineering, Research Area Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, (4)Chemical and Biological Process Development, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (5)Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France
1:30 PM
Engineering yeasts for next generation ethanol production
R. den Haan1, D. La Grange1, H. Kroukamp1, M. Saayman1, M. Viktor1, J. McBride2, L.R. Lynd2, M. Ilmen3, M. Penttilä3, J.F. Gorgens4, M. Bloom1 and W.H. Van Zyl1, (1)Dept. of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, (2)Mascoma Corporation, Lebanon, NH, (3)VTT Technical Resesarch Centre of Finland, (4)Process Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2:00 PM
Spathaspora passalidarum co-ferments glucose, xylose and cellobiose in minimal medium and hydrolysates
Thomas W. Jeffries1, Tanya M. Long2, Yi-Kai Su3, Alan J. Higbee2, Jennifer R. Headman4 and Laura B. Willis1, (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)Verdezyne, Inc., Carlsbad, CA
2:30 PM
Break, Napoleon Foyer, 3rd fl
3:00 PM
Engineering an alternative glycolytic pathway that increases ethanol yield in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Jennifer R. Headman, Erin Scott, Jose Laplaza, Kimberly Aeling, Alex Hutagalung and Stephen Picataggio, Verdezyne, Inc., Carlsbad, CA
3:30 PM
Phenotypic and multiomic approaches to understanding molecular bottlenecks in the fermentation of lignocellulosic biomass by Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Trey K. Sato1, Dana J. Wohlbach2, Jeffrey A. Lewis2, Yaoping Zhang1, Yury Bukhman1, Wendy Schackwitz3, Jennifer Reed4, Christa Pennacchio3, David Hodge5, Venkatesh Balan5, Kathryn Richmond1, Robert Landick6 and Audrey P. Gasch2, (1)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (2)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (3)DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, (4)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (5)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (6)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
4:00 PM
Production of itaconic acid from biomass using Ustilago maydis
Lars M. Blank, Nick Wierckx, Nicole Maassen, Elena Geiser, Monika Panakova, Martin Zimmermann and Birgitta Ebert, Biology, RTWH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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