2016 SIMB Annual Meeting and Exhibition

Non-traditional host systems provide a diverse genetic background, which can serve as an advantageous production platform for a wide range of industrially-produced pharmaceuticals, biochemicals and biofuels. This session will focus on metabolic engineering efforts in a range of non-model organisms that include but are not limited to fungi, algae, cyanobacteria, and archaea. Sample topic areas of interest include molecular tool development, metabolic flux analysis, construction and analysis of genome scale models, application of ‘omics’ techniques, and production of novel products through pathway engineering. Abstracts that apply these tools to the characterization of non-model microbial consortia are also encouraged.