Metabolic Engineering: Metabolic Engineering for the Production of Fine Chemicals and Pharmaceutical Precursors

Thursday, August 15, 2013: 2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Nautilus 1-2 (Sheraton San Diego)
Convener:
David R. Nielsen - Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ



2:30 PM
Tools for engineering complex natural product pathways in bacteria
Chin Giaw Lim, Marjan De Mey and Ajikumar Parayil, Manus Biosynthesis, Cambridge, MA
3:00 PM
Break
3:30 PM
Sustainable Production of Industrial Chemicals Using Microbial Biocatalysts: E. coli and 1,4-Butanediol
Catherine Pujol-Baxley, Strain Engineering/ Microbiology, Genomatica, inc., San Diego, CA
4:00 PM
Refactoring natural product biosynthesis in bacteria
Karsten Temme, Alvin Tamsir and Emily Tung, Pivot Bio, San Francisco, CA
4:30 PM
Automated Strain Engineering: a foray into industrial synthetic biology
Yandi Dharmadi, Biology, Amyris, Inc., Emeryville, CA
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