Bioconversion of low-value oils to novel value-added products in baker’s yeast.  Construction of a lipid-inducible, self-regulating form of Yarrowia lipolytica lipase LIP2
Jay M. Shockey¹, Dorselyn Chapital¹, Satinder Gidda², Catherine Mason¹, Gaynelle Davis¹, K. Thomas Klasson¹, Stephanie Boone¹, Heping Cao¹, Robert Mullen² and John Dyer³, (1)Southern Regional Research Center, Commodity Utilization Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS, New Orleans, LA, (2)Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, (3)US Arid Land Agricultural Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS, Maricopa, AZ

Novel approaches to producing microbial oils for biofuel production
Todd French and Rafael Hernandez, Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

In vivo nano-bioreactors for biosynthesis and biocatalysis
Swati Choudhary and Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

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Antimicrobial sophorolipid production from fermentation of oil and related coproducts
Daniel K.Y. Solaiman, Richard D. Ashby, Jonathan A. Zerkowski and Lin S. Liu, Eastern Regional Research Center, ARS, USDA, Wyndmoor, PA

Why lactic acid bacteria for biobutanol?
Siqing Liu, Renewable Product Technology, USDA-ARS-NCAUR, Peoria, IL

Production of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids from biodiesel-waste glycerol by microalgal and fungal fermentation
Zhiyou Wen, Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, Ames, IA