26: Metabolic Engineering: Metabolic engineering approaches toward commodity chemical applications

Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Bayview B (Hyatt Regency San Francisco)
Chair:
Stephen Van Dien
8:00 AM
Development of a sustainable process for the production of 1,2-propanediol
François Voelker, Rainer M. Figge and Philippe Soucaille, Metabolic Explorer, St. Beauzire, France
8:30 AM
Microbial production of glucaric acid: Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology
Kristala L. Jones Prather, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
9:00 AM
Production of eicosapentaenoic acid from Yarrowia lipolytica
Raymond Seung-Pyo Hong, Zhixiong Xue, Narendra Yadav, Pamela Sharpe, Howard Damude, Dongming Xie, David Short, Anthony Kinney, Bjorn Tyreus and Quinn Zhu, Central Research & Development/ Biochemical Sciences & Engineering, DuPont, Wilmington, DE
9:30 AM
Break
10:00 AM
Biological production of 3-hydroxypropionic acid from glycerol
Sunghoon Park, Subramanian Mohan Raj, Chelladurai Rathnasingh, Somasundar Ashok, Ji-Eun Jo and Woo-Chel Jung, Department of Biochemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
10:30 AM
Engineering improved fermentation of ethanol production in native xylose and cellobiose fermenting yeasts
Thomas W. Jeffries1, Jennifer R. Headman Van Vleet2, Shawn S. Nelson2, Sarah D. Mahan2, Jennifer R.H. Van Vleet2, Tanya Long2, Mallory Aman2 and Yi-Kai Su3, (1)Forest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Madison, WI, (2)Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (3)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
11:00 AM
Hydrogen production by direct fermentation of corn stover using a consortium of Clostridium microbes
Lauren Magnusson1, Pin-Ching Maness2, Ali Mohagheghi3, Shiv Thammannagowda1, Hui Wei1, Shi-You Ding4 and Melvin Tucker4, (1)Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, (2)Biological Sciences, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, (3)National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, (4)Chemical and Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
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