Society for Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Genomic sequencing reveals four major yeast clades of biotechnological interest
Prof. Thomas W. Jeffries¹, Dr. Sajeet Haridas², Dr. Asaf Salamov², Dr. Robert Riley², Dr. Markus Göker³, Chris T. Hittinger⁴, Prof. Hans-Peter Klenk⁵, Dr. Cletus Kurtzman⁶, Prof. Meredith Blackwell⁷, Prof. Ken Wolfe⁸ and Dr. Igor Grigoriev², (1)Xylome Corporation, Madison, WI, (2)Joint Genome Institute, Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, CA, (3)DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Leigniz Institute, Braunschweig, Germany, (4)Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, (5)School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, (6)Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL, (7)Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, (8)UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Optimizing CBP yeasts for lignocellulose conversion
Prof. W. H. (Emile) van Zyl¹, Dr. Riaan den Haan², Mr. Heinrich Kroukamp¹, Dr. John-Henry DV van Zyl¹ and Dr. J. M. (Sewis) van Zyl³, (1)Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, (2)Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa, (3)Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch

Recent strain and fermentation development for commercial ethanol production using xylose fermenting yeast
Kim Olofsson, Ole Sibbesen, Thomas Hvid Andersen and Birgitte Rĝnnow, Terranol A/S, Lyngby, Denmark

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The challenges of recycling Saccharomyces cerevisiae for lignocellulosic hydrolysate fermentations
Cory Sarks¹, Mingjie Jin¹, Alan Higbee², Saisi Xue¹, Jeff Piotrowski², Trey K. Sato², Venkatesh Balan³ and Bruce E. Dale⁴, (1)Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Lansing, MI, (2)University of Wisconsin - Madison, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Madison, WI, (3)Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Lansing, MI, (4)Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

Membrane engineering for reduced acetic acid stress: insights from Zygosaccharomyces bailii
Lina Lindahl¹, Samuel Genheden², Leif A Eriksson³, Lisbeth Olsson¹ and Maurizio Bettiga¹, (1)Biology and Biological Engineering - Industrial Biotechnology, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, (2)School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, (3)Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Anaerobic xylose fermentation through modification of kinase signaling pathways and iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis in yeast
Trey K. Sato¹, Audrey P. Gasch², Chris T. Hittinger², Yaoping Zhang³ and Robert Landick³, (1)University of Wisconsin - Madison, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Madison, WI, (2)Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, (3)DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Organic acids from lignocellulose: Candida lignohabitans as a new microbial cell factory
Martina Bellasio¹, Diethard Mattanovich², Michael Sauer³ and Hans Marx³, (1)Department of Biotechnology, University of natural resources and life sources, Vienna, Austria, (2)Department of Biotechnology, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (3)Department of Biotechnology, BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, CD Laboratory for Biotechnology of Glycerol, Vienna