Sunday, May 3, 2009: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Ballroom C (InterContinental San Francisco Hotel)
Session 2: Microbial Science and Technology 1
Microorganisms are powerful catalysts capable of synthesizing an ever wider range of fuels and chemicals from renewable feedstocks (sugars, synthesis gas, etc). Papers in this session will describe recent progress in developing and implementing new or improved microbes for biorefining applications. [Sessions 2 and 6]
Chair:Steve Picataggio
Co-chair:Ramon Gonzalez
1:00 PM2-01One-step Cellulosic Ethanol: Can We Really Do This?
Seunghyun Ryu, M. Nazmul Karim
1:30 PM2-02Genetically engineering yeast for CO2 capture during ethanol fermentation
Ziyu Dai, Kathryn Panther, Scott Baker, Jon Magnuson, Linda Lasure
2:00 PM2-03Production of a xylose utilizing Zymomonas mobilis strain for ethanol production from high concentrations of mixed sugars
Paul Viitanen, Carol Mc Cutchen, Mark Emptage, Perry Caimi, Min Zhang, Yat-Chen Chou, Mary Ann Franden
2:30 PM2-04Construction of pentose fermenting industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains expressing a bacterial xylose isomerase
Eckhard Boles, Dawid Brat, Beate Wiedemann
3:00 PM Break
3:30 PM2-05Development of a Robust Yeast Biocatalyst for Low pH Lactic Acid and Cellulosic Ethanol Fermentation
Pirkko Suominen, Dan Beacom, Tom McMullin, Arlene Fosmer, Chris Miller, Brian Rush, Jon Veldhouse, Gary Folkert, Liz Dierickx, Ken Finley, Beth Mastel, Holly Jessen, Josh Lundorff, Ana Negrete-Raymond, Jian Yi
4:00 PM2-06Metabolic Engineering of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae for the Production of n-Butanol
Eric J. Steen, Rossana Chan Chan, Nilu Prasad Prasad, Samuel Myers, Chris Petzold, Alyssa Redding, Mario Ouellet, Jay D. Keasling
4:30 PM2-06aIntegration of genomics and bioinformatics to identify genetic differences in an ethanol tolerant Clostridium thermocellum ATCC27405 strain
Steven D. Brown, Tatiana Karpinets, Jonathan R. Mielenz, Shihui Yang, Dawn M. Klingeman, Miriam L. Land, Loren J. Hauser, Babu Raman, Miguel Rodriguez Jr., Tingfen Yan, Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya, Herbert Strobel, Ying Xu, Phuongan Dam, Lee R. Lynd, Martin Keller

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