63 Biobased Fuels and Chemicals: Biosynthetic Pathway Engineering & Enzymatic Conversion


Description:
Biofuels and biochemicals represent a secure, renewable, and environmentally responsible alternative to petroleum-derived fuels and chemicals. Abundant but historically recalcitrant feedstocks such as lignocellulosic biomass, the non-edible portion of plant-derived biomass, are promising substrates with great potential in industrial microbial fermentation to produce bulk chemicals. This session will focus on the biological production of biofuels and biochemicals from renewable feedstocks, with an emphasis on metabolic engineering of enzymatic or whole-cell biocatalysts. Projects describing novel metabolic products from renewable feedstocks or achievement of industrially-relevant yields, titers, and productivity are welcome. In addition, projects describing progress on biomass degradation, sugar utilization, lignin utilization, and microbial tolerance improvement to the inhibitors in lignocellulosic hydrolysates are particularly welcome.

Sponsor:
Bioengineering
Co-Sponsor(s):
Biorefinery Technologies for Forest Based Lignocellulosic Biomass (T4A), Alternative Energy & Enabling Technologies (T4E), BioFuels (T4F)


Chair:
Han Li
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Irvine, CA
Email: hanl5@uci.edu

Co-Chair:
Joshua K. Michener
ORNL
Biosciences Division
Oak Ridge, TN
37830
Email: michenerjk@ornl.gov


Papers:
63a
Computational Protein Design Enables Efficient Regeneration of a Biomimetic Cofactor to Support Diverse Redox Chemistries
William Black, University of California, Irvine; Wai Shun Mak, University of Califorina Davis; Linyue Zhang, University of California, Irvine; Sarah Maxel, University of California Irvine; Bonnie Fong, University of California Irvine; Justin Siegel, University of California Davis; Han Li, University of California, Irvine
63b
Cell-Free Metabolic Engineering for Heterologous Pathway Optimization in Pseudomonas Putida KT2440
Joseph Rollin, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Christopher Johnson, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Peter St. John, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Paul E. Abraham, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Robert Hettich, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Gregg T. Beckham, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
63c
Application of Enzyme Promiscuity to Establish Non-Natural Biosynthetic Pathways for the Production of Phenolic Compounds
Qipeng Yuan, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
63d
Polyketide Synthases As a Platform for Biofuel Production
Amin Zargar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Constance Bailey, The Joint BioEnergy Institute; Ravi Lal, The Joint BioEnergy Institute; Miranda Werts, The Joint BioEnergy Institute; Jessica Wang, The Joint BioEnergy Institute; Andrew Wong, The Joint BioEnergy Institute; Satoshi Yuzawa, JBEI; Leonard Katz, University of California, Berkeley; Jay Keasling, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
63e
High-Throughput, Mass Spectrometry-Based Screening of Microbial Libraries to Produce Designer Free Fatty Acids with Custom Compositions
Tong Si, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Jonathan V. Sweedler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
63f
Quantitative Whole-Cell Biocatalyst Characterization: Elucidating Structure-Performance Relationships in Cell-Surface Displayed Multi-Enzyme Assemblies
Mason Smith, University of Michigan; Hui Gao, Konkuk University; Fei Wen, University of Michigan
63g
Olfactory Receptor-Based Sensors to Accelerate the Engineering of Chemical-Producing Microbes
Pamela Peralta-Yahya, Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract Submissions Closed
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