Recent advances in the biosynthetic capabities of fatty acid synthesis
John E. Cronan, Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Challenges and Progress in the Rapid Commercial Development of Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals
Andreas Schirmer, LS9, Inc., South San Francisco, CA

Cyanobacterial Aldehyde Decarbonylase: An Unexpected New Catalytic Capability for the Ferritin-Like Dimetal-Carboxylate Proteins
J. Martin Bollinger, Squire J. Booker, Carsten Krebs, Douglas Warui, Hanne Norgaard and Ning Li, Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

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A Functional Genomics Analysis of Free Fatty Acid Production in Escherichia coli
Brian F. Pfleger, Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI

Metabolic engineering of mono-unsaturated fatty acid production as a biorefining platform with the use of genome-wide tools and novel selection systems
Paul Handke, Sean A Lynch, Joseph R Warner and Ryan T Gill, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Exploiting the metabolic plasticity of fatty acid catabolism
Ramon Gonzalez, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX