Synthetic biology toward metabolic engineering of mevalonate pathway
Taek Soon Lee, Director of Metabolic Engineering, JBEI, Emeryville, CA

Amyris: Taking renewable fuels and chemicals from the lab to the market
Joel Cherry, Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc., Emeryville, CA

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Metabolic engineering for production of isoprene
Zachary Beck, Genencor, Palo Alto, CA

Discovery and design of terpenoid biosynthetic pathways
Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, Dept. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Rational design of microorganisms for efficient secondary metabolite synthesis
Friedrich Srienc, Chem. Eng. & Matl. Sci. and BioTechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN and Pornkamol Unrean, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul