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Conversion Technologies (Deconstruction or Synthesis): Microbial Science & Technology l - Bacteria

Monday, April 29, 2013: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM
Pavilion Ballroom
Convener:
Min Zhang - National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
Co-Convener:
Javier A. Izquierdo - RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
• New biocatalyst discovery and pathway engineering for biofuels and bio-based chemicals production. • Improved algal production of lipids and other products through strain engineering and process optimization. • Advances in metabolic engineering for consolidated bioprocessing. • Progress in pathway engineering for new products and alternative substrate utilization. • Better understanding of the genetics and cellular and molecular biology of microbial systems for production of renewable fuels and chemicals and strategies for enhanced microbial robustness. • Bioprocess development and scale up for biofuels and chemicals.

1:00 PM
2-01
Lignocellulose degradation mediated by novel binding proteins from the extremely thermophilic genus Caldicellulosiruptor
Sara E. Blumer-Schuette, Jeffrey V. Zurawski, Jonathan M. Conway and Robert M. Kelly, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
1:25 PM
2-02
Identification of inhibitory mechanisms in the conversion of lignocellulosic hydrolysate to ethanol by Escherichia coli using comparative multiomic fermentation with synthetic hydrolysates
Yaoping Zhang, Jeffrey Grass, David Keating, Irene Ong, Donna Bates, Alex La Reau, Haibo Li, William Bothfeld, Edward Pohlmann, Alan Higbee, Sean Mcilwain, Patricia Kiley and Robert Landick, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1:50 PM
2-03
Biodesign of Rhodococci for Lignin Fuel: A Path from Systems to Synthetic Biology
Shangxian Xie1, Yue Xing2, Hu Chen3, Xiao Li3, Tyron Wells4, Susie Y. Dai5, Arthur Ragauskas6 and Joshua S. Yuan1, (1)Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (2)Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (3)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (4)Georgia Institute of Technology, (5)Office of the Texas State Chemist, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (6)School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, BioEnergy Science Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
2:15 PM
Break
2:45 PM
2-04
Building Optimal Modular Microbial Cell Factories for Combinatorial Biosynthesis of Bioesters
Cong T. Trinh, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
3:05 PM
2-05
Insights into the physiology of thermophilic microbial cellulose utilization
Evert K. Holwerda and Lee R. Lynd, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
3:25 PM
2-06
Identification and Characterization of the Genetic Loci in Zymomonas mobilis conferring Tolerance to Pretreated Corn Stover Hydrolysate
Shihui Yang, Jeffrey Linger, Mary Ann Franden, Ali Mohagheghi, Philip T. Pienkos and Min Zhang, National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
3:45 PM
2-07
Global profiling of Clostridium thermocellum transcripts required for fermenting pretreated switchgrass or populus
Steven D. Brown1, Charlotte Wilson1, Courtney Johnson1, Miguel Rodriguez1, Dawn Klingeman1, Loren Hauser1, Tzu-Ming CHU2, S L Martin1, R D Wolfinger1 and Jonathan Mielenz1, (1)BioEnergy Science Center, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (2)SAS Institute Inc, Cary, NC
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