Society for Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

During the last 20 years, the field of metabolic engineering has advanced rapidly, leveraging both improvements in genetic manipulation technologies and a renewed interest in manufacturing fuels and chemicals by fermentation of bio-based feedstocks. Although still far from maturity, these pioneering efforts have begun coming to fruition in the form of commercial processes using engineered microorgansims. This session will feature four leaders in this community, who have spent much of their careers developing new technologies, commercializing bioprocesses, or otherwise advancing the field of metabolic engineering.

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