Comparative and functional genomics of Rhodococcus opacus PD630 for biofuels development
Jason Holder, Department of Biology, The Broad Institute & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Fermentative biohydrogen from hyperthermophilic Thermotoga species
Andrew D. Frock, William J. Kornahrens and Robert M. Kelly, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

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"Metabolic reconstruction and genome-scale model of butanol producing organism Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052"
Caroline B. Milne, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Hans P. Blaschek, Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL and Nathan D. Price, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Modeling Metabolic Variation in Genomic Mutant Library Selections for Sugar Utilization
Joost Groot and R.T. Gill, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Butanol Tolerance Gene Hunt:   Combining classical genetics with omics
Vasantha Nagarajan, Central Research and Development, Dupont, Wilmington, DE