Screening and selection of wild strains of fermentative yeast from unusual and extreme environments from Mexico
S.J. Torres-Ríos, I.N. Hazas-Arteaga, E.M. Loza-Valerdi, V. Pardiñas-Ríos, A. Bretón-Toral, A. Rodríguez-Hernández, E. Mantilla-Domínguez and S.T. Trejo-Estrada, Ciba, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Puebla, Mexico

Selection of amylolytic strains of  thermotolerant filamentous fungi from soils and hot compost
R. Chávez-Torres, J.M. Galindo-Solís, S.T. Trejo-Estrada and M. Plascencia-Espinosa, Ciba, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Puebla, Mexico

Evaluation of the BioLector Small-Scale Bioreactor for Identifying Recombinant Protein Production Differences in E. coli
Kieran J. Aurori Jr.¹, James Giulianotti², Michael Milligan³ and Dot Reilly¹, (1)Early Stage Cell Culture, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, (2)Early Stage Cell Culture, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, (3)Process Development Engineering, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA

Novel gene co-expression strategies enabled by synthetic biology
Thomas Vogl¹, Thomas Kickenweiz¹, Lukas Sturmberger¹, Andrea Camattari¹ and Anton Glieder², (1)Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, (2)Molecular Biotechnology/TU Graz, Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Graz, Austria

Multiomic fermentation with lignocellulosic hydrolysate and synthetic hydrolysate to study the effect of lignotoxins on the microbial conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biofuels
Yaoping Zhang, David Keating, Donna Bates, Irene Ong, Sean McIlwain, Alex La Reau, Haibo Li, Edward Pohlmann and Robert Landick, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Improving Escherichia coli FucO for furfural tolerance by saturation mutagenesis of individual amino acid positions
Huabao Zheng, Xuan Wang, Lorraine Yomano, Ryan Geddes, Keelnatham T. Shanmugam and Lonnie O. Ingram, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Critical Analytical Measurements for Fermentation Optimization
Roger J. Govaert, Product Management, Mettler-Toledo Process Analytics, MA, MA

Genomic Identification of Virginamycin Resistant Ethanol Process Contaminants
Consuelo Cruz, Research and Development, Archer Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, IL

Transgenic expression of a bacterial thermophilic amylase in the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast
Xiaoqing Wang, Zhenhua Ruan, Barbara B Sears, Yan Liu and Wei Liao, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI