Bioengineering

Session 484 - Advances in Metabolic Engineering and Bioinformatics (II)
This session will focus on Metabolic Engineering as a molecular-systems approach to the understanding and utilization of metabolic processes. The goal of the session is to discuss very recent advances in modeling and experimental approaches necessary to understand the integration and control of genetic, catalytic, and other biochemical events that govern cellular metabolism. Topics of interest include: reconstruction of metabolic as well as gene regulatory networks; control analysis; genomic, proteomic and/or metabolomic analysis; optimization; and heterologous pathways. We invite papers on the development and application of these techniques to cells derived from plant, insect, and animal tissues.
Chair:Kyongbum Lee
CoChair:Christina Chan
 Understanding Cofactor Partitioning in Xylitol-Producing Escherichia Coli Expressing Xylose Reductase
Jonathan W. Chin, Costas D. Maranas, Patrick C. Cirino
 Metabolic Control Analysis Provides Insights into Strategies for Improving Ethanol Production from Recombinant Xylose-Utilizing Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Liqing Wang, Vassily Hatzimanikatis
 Simultaneous Estimation of Reaction Fluxes and Metabolite Levels Using Instationary 13C Metabolic Flux Analysis
Jamey D. Young, Jason L. Walther, Maciek R. Antoniewicz, Gregory N. Stephanopoulos
 Total Microbial Synthesis of Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloids in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Kristy M. Hawkins, Christina Smolke
 Break
 Forward Engineering of a S. Coelicolor Actinorhodin Overproducer Using Transposon Mutagenesis
Elizabeth Widenbrant, Camilla M. Kao
 Engineering of Organic Acid Tolerance Genes in E. Coli for Biorefinery Applications
Tanya Warnecke, Michael D. Lynch, Nicholas R. Sandoval, Ryan T. Gill
 Biosynthesis of Fosfomycin
Zengyi Shao, Ryan Woodyer, Huimin Zhao

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