2016 SIMB Annual Meeting and Exhibition

Although, microorganisms have been used extensively for the past few centuries for the production of many useful compounds, recently they are playing a more important role as microbial conversion factories for the production of various goods ranging from conventional metabolites, proteins, food, drugs, fuels and industrial chemicals.  The process can be made more sustainable by using renewable feedstocks.  Key considerations for a successful process requires an analysis from end to end which comprises of the economics (e.g. stoichiometry, supply and distribution), metabolic engineering of the microbe to output maximal yield and productivity, cultivation process development, and downstream processing.  This session will focus on integrated approaches for a successful implementation of microbial conversion factories