Metabolic Engineering Working Group

Metabolic Engineering Working Group

Project Inventory

Abstracts from 2008

Abstracts and Presentation Files

2:00-5:00
- [Presentation] Breakout Session 1: Metabolic Engineering Working Group (MEWG): Interagency Conference on Metabolic Engineering
- Salon F
- Moderator: Fred Heineken, National Science Foundation
2:00-2:25
- [Presentation] Christina Smolke, Caltech
  [Abstract] "Foundational advances in RNA engineering applied to control biosynthesis"
2:25-2:50
- [Presentation] Dhinakar Kompala, University of Colorado, Boulder
  [Abstract] "Kinetic modeling of metabolically engineered Zymomonas mobilis to maximize ethanol production from a mixture of glucose and xylose"
2:50-3:15
- [Presentation] Terry Papoutsakis, University of Delaware
  [Abstract] "Development of tolerant and other complex phenotypes for biofuel production"
3:15-3:40
- Break
3:40-4:05
- [Presentation] Roger Ely and Frank Chapin, Oregon State University
  [Abstract] "Metabolic Engineering of Light and Dark Biochemical Pathways in Wild-Type and Mutant Synechocystis PCC 6803 Strains for Maximal, 24-Hour Production of Hydrogen Gas"
4:05-4:30
- [Presentation] John Frost, Michigan State University / Frost Chemical Laboratory
  [Abstract] "Supplanting the chemical legacy of Alfred Nobel: Creation of a pathway for the biosynthesis of 1,2,4-butanetriol"
4:30-5:00
- Group Discussion