A genome-wide approach to understand the roots of cellulase hyper-secretion in the filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei
Thomas Portnoy¹, Frédérique Bidard-Michelot², Bernhard Seiboth³, Senta Blanquet¹, Frédéric Monot¹, Scott E. Baker⁴, Christian P. Kubicek³, Stéphane Le Crom⁵ and Antoine Margeot¹, (1)Chemistry and Physical Chemistry, IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France, (2)Ibens, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, (3)Institute of Chemical Engineering, Research Area Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, (4)Chemical and Biological Process Development, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (5)Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France

Engineering yeasts for next generation ethanol production
R. den Haan¹, D. La Grange¹, H. Kroukamp¹, M. Saayman¹, M. Viktor¹, J. McBride², L.R. Lynd², M. Ilmen³, M. Penttilä³, J.F. Gorgens⁴, M. Bloom¹ and W.H. Van Zyl¹, (1)Dept. of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, (2)Mascoma Corporation, Lebanon, NH, (3)VTT Technical Resesarch Centre of Finland, (4)Process Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Spathaspora passalidarum co-ferments glucose, xylose and cellobiose in minimal medium and hydrolysates
Thomas W. Jeffries¹, Tanya M. Long², Yi-Kai Su³, Alan J. Higbee², Jennifer R. Headman⁴ and Laura B. Willis¹, (1)Forest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Madison, WI, (2)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, (3)Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, (4)Verdezyne, Inc., Carlsbad, CA

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Engineering an alternative glycolytic pathway that increases ethanol yield in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Jennifer R. Headman, Erin Scott, Jose Laplaza, Kimberly Aeling, Alex Hutagalung and Stephen Picataggio, Verdezyne, Inc., Carlsbad, CA

Phenotypic and multiomic approaches to understanding molecular bottlenecks in the fermentation of lignocellulosic biomass by Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Trey K. Sato¹, Dana J. Wohlbach², Jeffrey A. Lewis², Yaoping Zhang¹, Yury Bukhman¹, Wendy Schackwitz³, Jennifer Reed⁴, Christa Pennacchio³, David Hodge⁵, Venkatesh Balan⁵, Kathryn Richmond¹, Robert Landick⁶ and Audrey P. Gasch², (1)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (2)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (3)DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, (4)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (5)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (6)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Production of itaconic acid from biomass using Ustilago maydis
Lars M. Blank, Nick Wierckx, Nicole Maassen, Elena Geiser, Monika Panakova, Martin Zimmermann and Birgitta Ebert, Biology, RTWH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany