Predicting metabolic behaviors of microbial strains in response to genetic and environmental perturbations
Joonhoon Kim and Jennifer Reed, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Madison, WI

Efficient photosynthetic mechanisms in biofuel-producing microorganisms: what can metabolic analysis reveal?
Yuting Zheng and Ganesh Sriram, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Cellolosic isobutanol production via a synthetic fungus-bacterium consortium
Jeremy J. Minty¹, Marc E. Singer¹, Chang Hoon Bae¹, Jungho Ahn¹, Cliff E. Foster², James C. Liao³ and Xiaoxia Nina Lin¹, (1)Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, (2)DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (3)Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

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Genomic engineering strategies in industrial fuel ethanol Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for efficient 1^st and 2^nd generation bioethanol production from sugarcane
D. L. Gonçalves¹, G. Muller¹, M. Purificação¹, T. Goshima², Akinori Matsushika², Shinichi Yano², Elba P.S. Bon³ and Boris U. Stambuk¹, (1)Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil, (2)Biomass Refinery Research Center (BRRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Hiroshima, Japan, (3)Biochemistry Department, Chemistry Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Metabolic engineering of Zymomonas mobilis for hydrocarbon fuels production
Min Zhang, National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

Understanding fermentative glycerol metabolism and its application for the production of fuels and reduced chemicals
James M. Clomburg and Ramon Gonzalez, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX