Strain development for the acetone-butanol fermentation
Hans P. Blaschek, Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Stability of the high solids fermentation phenotype of isolates from an evolved strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Joy Doran Peterson and Gary Matthew Hawkins, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Antibiotic-free selection in E. coli: a new gold standard for safety, productivity and genetic stability
Regis Sodoyer, Virginie Courtois, Isabelle Peubez and Charlotte Mignon, Sanofi Pasteur R&D., Marcy l’Etoile, France

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Developing a genetically stable and tractable strain for scaling up 1,4 butanediol production in E. coli
Gian M. Oddone, Lars Knutstad, Harish Nagarajan, Catherine Pujol-Baxley, Laurie Romag, John D. Trawick, Jabus Tyerman, Jesse Wooton and Harry Yim, Fermentation, Genomatica Inc., San Diego, CA

Development of robust and genetically stable production strains by incorporating toxic biochemicals into biologically inert PHA polymers
Dong-Eun Chang and Tom M. Ramseier, Metabolix, Inc., Cambridge, MA

The Development of Robust Algae Strains
Galit Meshulam-Simon, Aurora Algae Inc., Hayward, CA