Choosing the right selective pressure:  Evolutionary engineering of Saccaromyces cerevisiae for increased production of carotenoids
Luis H. Reyes, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and Katy C. Kao, Texas A&M, College Station, TX

Heterologous expression of bacteriocins
Erin L. Dul and David C. Bressler, Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Thermostable xylanase of a bacterium, Geobacillus sp. DC3, isolated from the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota
Terran E. Bergdale and Sookie S. Bang, Chemical and Biological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD

Discovery of Bioactive Small Molecules from the Human Pathogen Legionella pneumophila
Chad W. Johnston¹, Jonathan Plumb², Xiang Li¹, Sergio Grinstein² and Nathan A. Magarvey¹, (1)Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, The Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (2)Cell Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

High throughput screening and advanced bioprocess monitoring – tools for efficient process development and comprehensive system understanding
Csilla Török¹, Monika Cserjan², Rene Gutmann³, Markus Luchner², Karoline Marisch², Gerald Striedner² and Karl Bayer², (1)ACIB GmbH, Vienna, Austria, (2)Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (3)Ionimed Analytik GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria

Engineering microalgae for production systems: metabolic manipulation without GMO classification
Emily M. Trentacoste¹, Roshan Shrestha², Sarah R. Smith², Corine Glé³, Aaron C. Hartmann², Mark Hildebrand² and William H. Gerwick¹, (1)Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, (2)Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, (3)Integrative Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA

Investigation of bacterial tetracycline degradation pathways
Aparupa Sengupta, Rupali Datta and Susan Bagley, Biological Sciences, Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI

Withdrawn: Directed discovery of unknown natural products using fragment-based molecular barcodes
Morgan Wyatt, Chemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada