2: Microbial Science and Technology 1

Sunday, May 3, 2009: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Ballroom C (InterContinental San Francisco Hotel)
Chair:
Steve Picataggio
Co-chair:
Ramon Gonzalez
1:00 PM
One-step Cellulosic Ethanol: Can We Really Do This?
Seunghyun Ryu, Texas Tech University; M. Nazmul Karim, Texas Tech University
1:30 PM
Genetically engineering yeast for CO2 capture during ethanol fermentation
Ziyu Dai, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Kathryn Panther, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Scott Baker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Jon Magnuson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Linda Lasure, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2:00 PM
Production of a xylose utilizing Zymomonas mobilis strain for ethanol production from high concentrations of mixed sugars
Paul Viitanen, DuPont Co.; Carol Mc Cutchen, DuPont Co.; Mark Emptage, DuPont Co.; Perry Caimi, DuPont Co.; Min Zhang, NREL; Yat-Chen Chou, NREL; Mary Ann Franden, NREL
2:30 PM
Construction of pentose fermenting industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains expressing a bacterial xylose isomerase
Eckhard Boles, Goethe-University Frankfurt; Dawid Brat, Goethe-University Frankfurt; Beate Wiedemann, Goethe-University Frankfurt
3:00 PM
Break
3:30 PM
Development of a Robust Yeast Biocatalyst for Low pH Lactic Acid and Cellulosic Ethanol Fermentation
Pirkko Suominen, Cargill; Dan Beacom, Cargill; Tom McMullin, Cargill; Arlene Fosmer, Cargill; Chris Miller, Cargill; Brian Rush, Cargill; Jon Veldhouse, Cargill; Gary Folkert, Cargill; Liz Dierickx, Cargill; Ken Finley, Cargill; Beth Mastel, Cargill; Holly Jessen, Cargill; Josh Lundorff, Cargill; Ana Negrete-Raymond, Cargill; Jian Yi, Cargill
4:00 PM
Metabolic Engineering of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae for the Production of n-Butanol
Eric J. Steen, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco; Rossana Chan Chan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; Nilu Prasad Prasad, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; Samuel Myers, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco; Chris Petzold, Joint BioEnergy Institute; Alyssa Redding, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco; Mario Ouellet, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; Jay D. Keasling, UC-Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
4:30 PM
Integration of genomics and bioinformatics to identify genetic differences in an ethanol tolerant Clostridium thermocellum ATCC27405 strain
Steven D. Brown, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Tatiana Karpinets, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jonathan R. Mielenz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Shihui Yang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Dawn M. Klingeman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Miriam L. Land, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Loren J. Hauser, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Babu Raman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Miguel Rodriguez Jr., Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Tingfen Yan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Herbert Strobel, University of Kentucky; Ying Xu, University of Georgia; Phuongan Dam, University of Georgia; Lee R. Lynd, Dartmouth College; Martin Keller, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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