Session 2: Metabolic Engineering of Catabolic Pathways
Monday, July 21, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Regency Ballroom C, Second Floor (St. Louis Hyatt Regency at the Arch)
Conveners:
Michael Lynch - Duke University, Durham, NC and Lori Giver - Calysta Energy, Menlo Park, CA
Biological conversion systems have the potential to be a platform for the production of wide diversity of chemical products, each at high specificity, from C1 (one carbon) feedstocks, such as methane, syngas and there derivatives including methanol and formaldehyde. One key challenge to the successful use of biological catalysts for these conversions is the efficient and high yield uptake or catabolism of these C1 compounds. The session will explore advances in engineering C1 feedstock assimilation.

8:00 AM
S7
Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the production of valencene
Dayal Saran, Grace Park, Philippe Prochasson, Bryan Julien and Rich Burlingame, Allylix, Inc., Lexington, KY
8:45 AM
S8
Direct Conversion of Plant Biomass to Ethanol by Engineered Caldicellulosiruptor bescii.
Janet Westpheling1, Dae-Hwan Chung1, Minseok Cha1 and Adam Guss2, (1)Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, and BioEnergy Science Center, Biosciences Division of DOE, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (2)BioEnergy Science Center, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
9:15 AM
S9
Conversion of lignin to fuels and chemicals using catalysis and biology
Gregg T. Beckham1, Mary Ann Franden1, Michael T. Guarnieri1, Christopher W. Johnson1, Eric Karp1, Jeffrey Linger1, Phillip T. Pienkos1, T.J. Strathmann2 and Derek R. Vardon1, (1)National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, (2)UIUC, Urbana-Champaign, IL
10:15 AM
S10
Enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase from the type II fatty acid biosynthesis pathway supports efficient operation of a functional reversal of the β-oxidation cycle
Jacob E. Vick, Ramon Gonzalez, James M Clomburg and Matthew D Blankschien, Rice University, Houston, TX
10:45 AM
S11
Continuous fermentation of cellulosic sugars by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Soo Rin Kim1, Haiqing Xu2, Uros Kuzmanovic1, Anastashia Lesmana1, Eun Joong Oh2, Heejin Kim2, Jeffrey M. Skerker3, Adam P. Arkin4 and Yong-Su Jin2, (1)Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (2)Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, (3)Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, (4)Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
11:45 AM
S12
The Bifi-RuMP Pathway: a Synthetic High Yield Methanol Assimilation Pathway
Wahab Sheikh, Ashley Trahan and Michael Lynch, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC
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