Preliminary Program subject to change
15C02 Advances in Metabolic Engineering: Prokaryotes
OverviewWe invite papers reporting recent progress in the Metabolic Engineering from an experimental perspective. Topics of interest include: metabolic pathway reconstruction, metabolic regulation, metabolic flux and control analysis, metabolic engineering for specialty chemicals and natural products, metabolic engineering for biomedical applications, and metabolic engineering for protein production.
Primary SponsorBioengineering (15c)

Chair

Francois Berthiaume
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School


Phone Number: (617) 371-4889
Fax Number: (617) 371-4950
Email: fberthia@sbi.org

CoChair

Huimin Zhao
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois
215 Roger Adams Lab, Box C3
600 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone Number: (217)333-2631
Fax Number: (217)333-5052
Email: zhao5@uiuc.edu
Effect of Oxygen on the E. Coli Global Redox Sensing/Regulation Networks and Metabolic Flux Distribution Based on C-13 Labeling Experiments
Jiangfeng Zhu1, Sagit Shalel Levanon2, George Bennett2 and Ka-Yiu San3, (1)Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, (2)Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, (3)Department of Bioengineering; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005
Role of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase in the Anaerobic Fermentation of Sugars by Escherichia Coli
Abhishek Murarka, Iowa State University, 2114 Sweeny Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50014 and Ramon Gonzalez, Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University, 1035 Sweeney Hall, Ames, IA 50011
Defining Gene Knockout Search Trajectories: Many Genotypes for the Same Phenotype?
Hal S. Alper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 56-422, Cambridge, MA 02139 and Gregory Stephanopoulos, Chemical Engineering, MIT, 66-264 MIT 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
Determination of the Fractional Contribution of Individual Elementary Modes to the Overall Metabolism of Escherichia Coli
Aaron P. Wlaschin, Cong T. Trinh and Friedrich Srienc, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 140 Gortner Hall / 1479 Gortner Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108
Intermission
Engineering Escherichia Coli Solvent Tolerance Phenotypes to Improve Chemical Production
Sara Ziesman, Amarjeet Singh and Ryan T Gill, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Campus Box 424, Boulder, CO 80309
Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia Coli for Sugar Nucleotide and Oligosaccharides Synthesis
Zichao Mao1, Anne Ruffing1, Hyun-Dong Shin1 and Rachel Ruizhen Chen2, (1)Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 778 Atlantic Dr., Atlanta, GA 30332, (2)Chemical&Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive, NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0100
Improving the Efficiency of Xylose Utilization and Xylitol Production in E. Coli
Patrick C. Cirino1, Reza Khankal2 and Jonathan W. Chin2, (1)Penn State University, 226 Fenske Lab, University Park, PA 16802, (2)Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 222 Fenske Lab, University Park, PA 16802

Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division