Design, construction and application of a ‘metabolite valve’ for dynamic control of metabolic flux
Kristala L. J. Prather, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Protein nano-compartments for synthetic biology
Mark Held, Maureen B. Quin, Emily Schmidt and Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

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A strategy for genome design, redesign, and optimization of ethylene production in E. coli
Sean Lynch¹, Carrie A. Eckert², Jianping Yu², PinChing Maness² and Ryan T. Gill³, (1)Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, Boulder, CO, (2)Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, (3)Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

Challenges and strategies in streamlining the heterologous production of complex natural products
Blaine A. Pfeifer, Chemical and Biological Engineering, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Better, stronger, faster: Synthetic biology approaches for optimizing isoprenoid production by S. cerevisiae
Kirsten R. Benjamin, Program Management, Amyris Inc., Emeryville, CA

Synthetic frameworks for integrated computation and memory in living bacteria
Piro Siuti, John Yazbek and Timothy K. Lu, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA