Society for Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Functional Metagenomics of Microbial Biodiversity in Norwegian Extreme Environments – fjords, oil reservoirs and the high Arctic
Alexander Wentzel, Dept. of Biotechnology, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Trondheim, Norway

Expansion of the functional diversity of PHA synthase enzymes through functional metagenomics
Trevor C. Charles, Jiujun Cheng and Kathy Lam, Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Sweet Diversity – CAZYMES From Metagenomes
Dr. Nele Ilmberger, Dr. Ulrich Rabausch and Prof. Wolfgang R. Streit, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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Functional Metagenomics of Soil Microbial Secondary Metabolite Pathways
David A. Mead¹, Scott Monsma¹, Xing-Cong Li², Blaine A. Pfeifer³, Jinglie Zhou⁴, Scott Santos⁵ and Mark R. Liles⁴, (1)R&D, Lucigen Corporation, Middleton, WI, (2)University of Mississippi, University, MS, (3)Chemical and Biological Engineering, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, (4)Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, (5)Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Development of a high throughput cell-free metagenomic screening platform
Mr. Walter Nevondo, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, Mr. Lonnie van Zyl, Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa and Prof. Marla Trindade, Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

Zooming in on Metagenomics: Lessons for Enzyme Engineering
Esther M. Gabor, Birgit Heinze, Wolfgang Aehle and Jürgen Eck, BRAIN AG, Zwingenberg, Germany