Session 15
Microbial Science and Technology III – Bacteria
Thursday, May 1, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:25 AM
Grand Ballroom D-E, lobby level (Hilton Clearwater Beach)
Conveners:
Sara Blumer-Schuette - North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC and Jonathan R. Mielenz - White Cliffs Biosystems, Rockwood, TN
Application of newly developed bacteria for ethanol and other fuel production will be presented in this session. Research topic include new bacterial strain discovery, progress using genetic engineering, microbial evolution, and pathway engineering approaches for as well as testing of natural or constructed consortia for bioconversion.

Towards production of short chain fatty acids and adipic acid in Escherichia coli
Hans Marx, Diethard Mattanovich and Michael Sauer, Department of Biotechnology, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Direct Conversion of Plant Biomass to Ethanol by Engineered Caldicellulosiruptor bescii
Dae-Hwan Chung, Minseok Cha and Janet Westpheling, Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, and BioEnergy Science Center, Biosciences Division of DOE, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
Butanol Production from Multiple Agave Species
Jonathan R. Mielenz, White Cliffs Biosystems and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (retired), Rockwood, TN, Miguel Rodriguez Jr., Biosciences Division and BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN and Olivia A. Thompson, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
A specific biocatalyst for a specific feedstock - production of platform chemicals from perennial rye grass by metabolically engineered Lactobacillus plantarum
Alun Thomas Hughes, David N Bryant and Joe A Gallagher, Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
ENGINEERED REVERSAL OF THE ß-OXIDATION CYCLE FOR FUEL AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTION
Ramon Gonzalez, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX
Systems biology-guided biodesign of lignin to PHA production
Lin Lu and Joshua Yuan, Department of plant pathology & microbiology, Synthetic and Systems Biology Innovation Hub, Texas A&M university, College Station, TX
The utility of Functional Genomics in the characterization of Clostridium thermocellum
Charlotte M. Wilson1, Dawn M. Klingeman2, Courtney M. Johnson2, Miguel Rodriguez Jr.2, Stanton L. Martin3, Tzu-Ming Chu3, Russ D. Wolfinger3, Loren J. Hauser2, Miram L. Land2, Mustafa H. Syed2, Sagar M. Utturkar4, Punita Manga4, Richard J. Giannone2, Robert L. Hettich2, Arthur Ragauskas5, Timothy Tschaplinski2, Jonathan R. Mielenz2 and Steven D. Brown2, (1)Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (2)Biosciences Division and BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (3)SAS Institute Inc, Cary, NC, (4)Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, (5)School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, BioEnergy Science Center/Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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