Increasing ethanol productivity from xylose in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae by protein engineering
David Runquist, Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal and Maurizio Bettiga, Applied Microbiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to fuel and food using a non-recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae selectively bred to metabolize xylose
Paul V. Attfield, Arthur Kollaras and Philip Bell, Microbiogen Pty Ltd, Lane Cove, Australia

Pichia stipitis engineered for improved fermentation of cellulosic and hemicellulosic sugars
Thomas W. Jeffries¹, Shawn S. Nelson¹, Sarah D. Mahan¹, Yi-Kai Su², Jennifer R. Headman Van Vleet³ and Tanya M. Long⁴, (1)Forest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Madison, WI, (2)Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, (3)EdeniQ, Visalia, CA, (4)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

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Elimination of glycerol production in anaerobic cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae engineered for use of acetic acid as electron acceptor
Víctor G. Guadalupe Medina, Marinka J. H. Almering, Antonius J. A. van Maris and Jack T. Pronk, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

Engineering of industrial cellulolytic Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass
Steven Henck, Luise McDade, Alexander Amerik, Esther Yu, Georges Kabongo-Mubalamate, Kunjan Devatia, Alexander Tikhonov and Nikolai Khramtsov, Arbor Fuel Inc., Farmington, CT

Development of Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum for fermentation of pretreated hardwood
Christopher D. Herring¹, A. Joe Shaw¹, William R. Kenealy¹, W. Ryan Sillers¹, John Bardsley¹, Sean F. Covalla¹, Abigail Foster¹, Jessica P. Johnson¹, Stephen R. Rogers¹, Haowen Xu¹, Babu Raman², Timothy J. Tschaplinski³, Dawn M. Klingeman², Zamin K. Yang², Nancy L. Engle⁴, Miguel Rodriguez, Jr.¹, Courtney M. Johnson¹, Miriam . Land¹, Steven D. Brown¹, Jonathan R. Mielenz¹, Brian H. Davison¹ and David Hogsett¹, (1)Mascoma Corp., Lebanon, NH, (2)Biosciences Division, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, (3)Biosciences division, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, (4)ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN

Engineered metabolism for the production of fuels and chemicals from glycerol and fatty acids: The role of synthetic and systems biology
Ramon Gonzalez, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX