Activity improvement and understanding of cellobiohydrolase function through enzyme engineering
Larry E. Taylor II¹, John O. Baker¹, Gregg T. Beckham², Qi Xu¹, Arjun Singh², Michael Himmel¹, Todd A. Vander Wall¹ and William S. Adney¹, (1)Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, (2)National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

Improving the synthetic activity of Candida antarctica lipase B via mutagenesis
Kerri Cushing and Steven Peretti, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Structure dynamics guided biocatalyst improvement
Ugur Uzuner¹, Weibing Shi², Sanmin Liu², Susie Y. Dai³ and Joshua S. Yuan², (1)Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, (2)Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (3)Office of the Texas State Chemist, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Construction of chimeric enzymes based on catalytic domains of cellulytic enzymes from insect-gut bacterium
Nidhi Adlakha¹, Raman Rajagopal² and Syed Shams Yazdani¹, (1)Synthetic Biology and Biofuel Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India, (2)Insect Resistance Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

Identifying rate limitations in the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose: insights from computational and experimental studies
Prabuddha Bansal¹, Bryan Vowell¹, Mélanie Hall², Yuzhi Kang¹, Matthew J. Realff¹, Jay H. Lee³ and Andreas S. Bommarius¹, (1)School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, (2)Deparment of Chemistry, University of Graz, Graz, Austria, (3)Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea

Function GH61 enzymes in biomass deconstruction
Katja Salomon Johansen, Novozymes A/S, Bagsvćrd, Denmark and Matt Sweeney, Protein Chemistry, Novozymes, Inc. Davis, CA, Davis, CA

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Clostridium thermocellum cellulases – what are we missing?
David A. Mead¹, Larry Allen¹, Dan Xie¹, Krishne Gowda² and Phil Brumm¹, (1)C5-6 Technologies, Middleton, WI, (2)Lucigen and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Middleton, WI

Bacillus cellulosilyticus DSM 2522 – results from the first alkaline Bacillus genome
David Mead¹, Julie Boyum¹, Colleen Drinkwater¹, Jan Deneke¹ and Phil Brumm², (1)Lucigen and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Middleton, WI, (2)C5-6 Technologies and Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Middleton, WI