Metabolic Engineering of Non-Traditional Host Microorganisms

Wednesday, August 14, 2013: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Nautilus 1-2 (Sheraton San Diego)
Convener:
Christie Peebles - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Non-traditional hosts systems provide a diverse genetic background which can serve as an advantageous production platform for a wide range of pharmaceuticals, biochemicals and biofuels.  This session will focus on metabolic engineering efforts in a range of non-model organisms which include but are not limited to plants, algae, cyanobacteria, archaea, and etc.


8:00 AM
Non-traditional host characterization and metabolic engineering pipeline as demonstrated with Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942
Scott A. Becker, Sridhar Ranganathan, Farzad Haerizadeh, Pei-Zhong Tang, Bianca Lam, Haw Siang Brandon Ang, Antje Taliana, Todd Peterson and Kevin Clancy, Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA
8:30 AM
Engineering Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 to grow continuously in diurnal conditions
Shota Atsumi and Jordan T. McEwen, Chemistry, University of Californa, Davis, Davis, CA
9:00 AM
Microalgae for the production of biofuels and bioproducts
Stephen Mayfield, San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
9:30 AM
Break
10:00 AM
Metabolic engineering for novel biosynthesis of fatty acid from carbon dioxide and hydrogen
Unmi Kim1, Patrick Conley1, Carrie A. Eckert2, Brittany L. Prather1, Daniel Rouse1, Robert X. Sorg1, Eileen C. Spindler1, Ryan Sullivan2, Kristina J. Tyner1, Phillip G. Wagner1, Jianping Yu2, Ron Evans1, Hans Liao1, Tanya E. W. Lipscomb1, Matthew L. Lipscomb1, PinChing Maness2 and David Hogsett1, (1)OPXBIO, Boulder, CO, (2)Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
10:30 AM
Developing mint as an experimental model system for engineering terpenoid essential oil biosynthesis
Bernd Markus Lange, Institute of Biological Chemistry and M.J. Murdock Metabolomics Laboratory, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
11:00 AM
Examining the complex transcriptional response of perturbing one gene in the terpenoid indole alkaloid pathway in Catharanthus roseus
Jiayi Sun and Christie A. M. Peebles, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
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