Protein engineering of polyketide synthase from fredericamycin biosynthetic pathway using machine learning and synthetic genes
Ping-Hui (Grace) Szu¹, Sridhar Govindarajan², Jeremy Minshull² and Chaitan Khosla¹, (1)Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, (2)DNA2.0 Inc., Menlo Park, CA

Synthetic biology and the natural products drug discovery revolution
Kevin A. Jarrell, Gabriel O. Reznik, Prashanth Vishwanath, Michelle Pynn and Yan Jiang, Modular Genetics, Inc., Cambridge, MA

Engineering terpene synthases with altered product profiles and their use in commercial terpene production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Bryan Julien, Eunyoung Park, Jean Amick, Tyrone Ferns and Richard Burlingame, Allylix, Lexington, KY

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Hydrocarbon-based fuels from yeast: The industrialization of synthetic biology
Zach Serber, Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville, CA

Design and use of a novel mevalonate-responsive gene regulator for engineering improved mevalonate synthesis in E. coli
Patrick Cirino and Shuang Yan Tang, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, Penn State University, UNIVERSITY PARK, PA

Mining enzymes from fungal secondary metabolism as biocatalysts
Yi Tang, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA