17: Microbial Science and Technology lll

Thursday, May 5, 2011: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM
Grand Ballroom B, 2nd fl (Sheraton Seattle)
Chair:
Hung Lee
Co-chair:
Kirsty A. Salmon
1:00 PM
Identification and expression of a novel bacterial xylose isomerase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Kirsty A. Salmon, Ling Li, Kimberly A. Aeling and Picataggio Steve, Renewable Fuels, Verdezyne, Inc., Carlsbad, CA
1:30 PM
Characterization of a xylose-fermenting, stress-tolerant Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strain developed from multi-phenotypic screening and comparative functional genomics
Trey K. Sato1, Mingjie Jin2, Dana J. Wohlbach3, Jason Shao1, Jeffrey A. Lewis3, Benjamin Bice1, Christa Gunawan2, Venkatesh Balan4, Sydnor T. Withers1, Yury Bukhman1, Bruce E. Dale2 and Audrey P. Gasch3, (1)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (2)Deparment of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, (3)Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (4)Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI
2:00 PM
Accelerating the utilization of C5-sugars by engineered S. cerevisiae for ethanol production from llgnocellulosic feedstocks
Panagiotis Sarantinopoulos, Aldo Greeve, Bianca Gielesen, Denise van Suylekom, Jan Roerig, Saskia Pellis, Michel Berkhout, Fred van der Hor and Paul Klaassen, DSM Biotechnology Center, Delft, Netherlands
2:30 PM
Break
3:00 PM
Xyno; The ethanol fermentation yeast by Neo-Morgan Laboratory
Kengo Fukui, Global Business Development, Neo-Morgan Laboratory Incorporated, Kawasaki, Japan
3:30 PM
New strategies for efficient utilization of lignocellulosic biomass
Huimin Zhao, Sijin Li, Jing Du, Byoungjin Kim, Amit Ghosh and Nathan Price, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
4:00 PM
Ethanol production from lignocellulosic hydrolysates by genome shuffled strains of Scheffersomyces stipitis
Paramjit K. Bajwa1, Chetsada Phaenark1, Nicola Grant2, Xiao Zhang3, Mike Paice4, Vince Martin2, Jack Trevors1 and Hung Lee1, (1)School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Center for Bioproducts and Bioenergy, Washington State University, Richland, WA, (4)Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (Paprican), Pointe Claire, QC, Canada
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