Session 5: Microbial Catalysis and Metabolic Engineering

8:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks—Session Chair/Co-Chair

8:10 a.m.

Oral Presentation 5-01. Alcoholic Fermentation of Lignocellulose Hydrolysates Has Become Feasible, (MS Word 29 KB) Eleonora Bellissimi, Marko Kuyper, Maurice Toirkens, Hans van Dijken, Jack Pronk, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands; and Ron Winkler and Hans van Dijken, Bird Engineering B.V., Rotterdam, The Netherlands

8:35 a.m.

Oral Presentation 5-02. Genetic Engineering of S. cerevisiae for Pentose Utilization, (MS Word 30 KB) Peter Richard, Ritva Verho, John Londesborough and Merja Penttilä, VTT Biotechnology, VTT, Finland

9:00 a.m.

Oral Presentation 5-03. Development of Recombinant Xylose- and Arabinose-Utilising Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Strains, (MS Word 19 KB) Kaisa Karhumaa, Valeria Wallace Salinas, Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal, and Marie F. Gorwa-Grauslund, Department of Applied Microbiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; and Beate Wiedemann and Eckhard Boles, Institut für Mikrobiologie, Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

9:25 a.m.

Oral Presentation 5-04. A "First-Look" at the Genome of the Xylose-Fermenting Yeast, Pichia stipitis, (MS Word 34 KB) Thomas W. Jeffries and José M. Laplaza, USDA, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI; Igor Grigoriev and Paul Richardson, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA; Yong-Su Jin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge, MA; and Volkmar Passoth, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of Microbiology, Uppsala, Sweden

9:50 a.m.

Break

10:20 a.m.

Oral Presentation 5-05. Evaluation of Cellulase System Components Expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Implications for Consolidated Bioprocessing, (MS Word 34 KB) John McBride and Lee R. Lynd, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; and Riaan den Haan, J. J. (Ancha) Zietsman, Ronel van Rooyen, Shaunita H. Rose, Danie La Grange, and W. H. (Emile) van Zyl, Department of Microbiology, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

10:45 a.m.

Oral Presentation 5-06. Metabolic Engineering of Actinobacillus succinogenes to Enhance Succinic Acid Production, (MS Word 30 KB) Susanne Kleff, Jian Yi, Michael V. Guettler, and Mark D. Stowers, MBI International, Lansing, MI

11:10 a.m.

Oral Presentation 5-07. High-Purity Lactic Acid Fermentation Broth, (MS Word 28 KB) J.C. Lievense and C.-L. Liu, Tate & Lyle, Decatur, IL

11:35 a.m.

Closing Remarks—Session Chair/Co-Chair