Evolutionary engineering for hydrolysates tolerance in yeast
Priscila Almario, Luis H Reyes and Katy C. Kao, Texas A&M, College Station, TX

Higher throughput continuous culture for strain selection in yeast
Aaron W. Miller, Bryony Lynch, Annie Young, Mei Huang and Maitreya J. Dunham, Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Recent Advances in Application of Shaken Microbioreactors – from Fed-batch Screening to Automated Bioprocessing
Frank Kensy, Liz Dierickx, Pamela Wenk and Johannes Hemmerich, m2p-labs GmbH, Baesweiler, Germany

Implementation of Automated Scale-down Bioreactors for Rapid Process Optimisation and Development
Andrew Tait¹, Tim Ward² and Richard Wales¹, (1)Development Group, TAP Biosystems, Royston, United Kingdom, (2)Commercial Group, TAP Biosystems, Royston, United Kingdom

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Novel agitation-aeration-hybrid culture vessel construct featuring integrated real time oxygen uptake reporting
Duen G. Mou, Moubio Co. LLC, Taipei, Taiwan

Pulse respirometry in microreactors for kinetic and stoichiometric characterization of bioprocesses
Miguel Vital-Jacome¹, Rocio Ramirez-Vargas¹, Ivonne Esquivel-Rios¹, G. R. Hernandez-Martinez¹, Loe Hubbard² and Frederic Thalasso¹, (1)Departamento de Biotecnología y Bioingeniería, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav), Mexico City, Mexico, (2)PALL Life Sciences, Port Washington, NY

Miniature Stirred-Tank Bioreactors for Parallel Fermentation Process Development
Dirk Weuster-Botz, Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany