Repurposing antibiotic-producing polyketide synthases to produce biofuels
Satoshi Yuzawa, Woncheol Kim, Leonard Katz and Jay Keasling, QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Emeryville, CA

Diol dehydratase engineering for biosynthesis of methyl ethyl ketone
Gregory Jacobson and Xin Ge, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA

Insights into the role of Swollenin in enzymatic biomass deconstruction
Keith Gourlay¹, Jinguang Hu¹, Valdeir Arantes¹, Merja Penttilä² and Jack N. Saddler¹, (1)Forest Products Biotechnology/Bioenergy Group, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland

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Linking growth on lignocellulosic carbon sources to gene expression through secretome and transcriptome analysis in novel enzyme  producing filamentous fungi from Vietnamese habitats
Lisbeth Olsson¹, George E. Anasontzis¹, Dang Tat Thanh², Nguyen Thanh Thuy², Dinh Thi My Hang² and Vu Nguyen Thanh², (1)Industrial Biotechnology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, (2)Department of Microbiology, FIRI - Food Industries Research Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam

Mutational Studies on Cellulose-Binding Domain toward Improved Cellulose Decrystallization Effect and Binding Affinity
Yuzhi Kang, Prabuddha Bansal, Bettina Bommarius, Matthew J. Realff and Andreas S. Bommarius, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Mutagenesis of Trichoderma reesei Endoglucanase I for Improved Function at Elevated Temperatures
Harshal A. Chokhawala¹, Christine M. Roche², Meera Atreya³, Craig M. Dana¹, Harvey W. Blanch² and Douglas S. Clark², (1)Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (2)Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (3)Chemistry, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Consolidated “One-pot” Ionic Liquid (IL) Pretreatment and Saccharification of Switchgrass using a Thermostable, IL tolerant Enzyme Cocktail
Jian Shi¹, John M. Gladden¹, Pavan Kambam², Lucas Sandavol², Sonny Zhang³, Steve W. Singer⁴, Blake A. Simmons¹ and Seema Singh¹, (1)Biological and Materials Science Center, Sandia National Laboratories/Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, (2)The Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit (ABPDU), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, (3)Deconstruction, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, (4)Joint BioEnergy Institute / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA