Metabolic engineering for green growth

Plenary Speakers

• Martin Fussengger (ETH, Switzerland)
  MAMMALIAN SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY - FROM TOOLS TO THERAPIES

• Sang Hyup Kim (Secretary to the President, Korea)
  Korean green growth initiative

• Jens Nielsen (Chalmers University, Sweden)
  YEAST AS A PLATFORM CELL FACTORY FOR PRODUCTION OF FUELS AND CHEMICALS

• Bernhard Palsson (University California San Diego, USA)
  Genome-wide transcript mapping in E. coli…

• John Pierce (DuPont, USA)
  METABOLIC AND PROCESS ENGINEERING FOR COMMERCIAL OUTCOMES

• Masaru Tomita (Keio University, Japan)
  METABOLOMICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

 Invited Speakers (incomplete list)

• Maciek Antoniewicz (Univ of Delaware, USA)
  TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY TOOLS FOR METABOLIC NETWORK RECONSTRUCTION AND FLUX ANALYSIS

• Juan Asenjo (Univ of Chile, Chile)
  METABOLOMICS OF RECOMBINANT YEAST: A CONTINUOUS MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR SIMULATING GENE EXPRESSION AND CONTROL OF METABOLISM

• Mike Betenbaugh (Johns Hopkins Univ, USA)
  ENGINEERING MAMMALIAN CELL LINES TO FACILITATE BIOPROCESSING

• Roel Bovenberg (DSM, Netherlands)
  EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF PHARMACEUTICALS BY ENGINEERED FUNGI

• Mark Burk (Genomatica, USA)
  DIRECT PRODUCTION OF 1,4-BUTANEDIOL FROM RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCKS

• George Chen (Tsinghua Univ, China)
  METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE PATHWAYS FOR CHEMICALS

• George Georgiou (Univ of Texas Austin, USA)
  ENGINEERING AND PRECLINICAL EVALUATION OF HUMAN ENZYMES FOR METABOLITE DEPLETION IN CANCER THERAPY

• Daniel G. Gibson (J. Craig Venter Institute, USA)
  GENOME SYNTHESIS AND TRANSPLANTATION: PROGRESS ON CONSTRUCTION OF A SYNTHETIC BACTERIAL CELL

• Ryan Gill (Univ of Colorado, USA)
  GENOME ENGINEERING BY TRACKABLE RECURSIVE MULTIPLEX RECOMBINEERING (TREMR)

• Ramon Gonzalez (Rice Univ, USA)
  ENGINEERED METABOLISM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FUELS AND CHEMICALS FROM GLYCEROL AND FATTY ACIDS: THE ROLE OF SYNTHETIC AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

• Vassily Hatzimanikatis (EPFL, Switzerland)
  RETROFITTING COMPLEX SYSTEMS FOR GREEN GROWTH

• Joseph Heijnen (TU Delft, Netherlands)
  TOWARDS GENOME SCALE IN-VIVO KINETIC MODELS

• Elmar Heinzle (Saarland Univ, Germany)
  FORCING EVOLUTION OF PATHWAY CONTROL FOR PRODUCTION

• Mitshiro Itaya (Keio Univ, Japan)
  RECOMBINANT GENOMES DESIGNED AND PRODUCED VIA NOVEL BACILLUS SUBTILIS GENOME VECTOR

• Federico Katzen (Life Technologies, USA)
  NEXT GENERATION DNA ASSEMBLY TOOLS FOR METABOLIC ENGINEERING

• Jay Keasling (Joint BioEnergy Inst, USA)
  SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY FOR SYNTHETIC FUELS

• Ji Hyun Kim (KRIBB, Korea)
  GENOME SEQUENCING AND OMICS SYSTEMS ANALYSIS OF THE PROTEIN CELL FACTORY OF ESCHERICHIA COLI

• Akihiko Kondo (Kobe Univ, Japan)
  PRODUCTION OF BIO-FUELS FROM BIOMASS BY COMBINATION OF A CELL SURFACE ENGINEERING AND A SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY APPROACH

• Jim Liao (UCLA, USA)
  SYNTHESIS OF HIGHER ALCOHOLS

• Costas Maranas (Penn State Univ, USA)
  USING COMPUTATIONS TO RECONSTRUCT, ANALYZE AND REDESIGN METABOLISM

• Lars Nielsen (Univ Queensland, Australia)
  GENOME ANALYSIS AND ENGINEERING E. COLI FOR SUCROSE UTILIZATION

• Yosuke Nishio (Ajinomoto, Japan)
  SYSTEMS BIOLOGY OF AMINO ACID FERMENTATION IN ESCHERICHIA COLI

• Terry Papoutsakis (Univ of Delaware, USA)
  CLOSTRIDIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: MALIGNED BUT THRIVING

• Jin Hwan Park (KAIST, Korea)
  SYSTEMS METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF ESCHERICHIA COLI FOR AMINO ACID PRODUCTION

• Kristala Prather (MIT, USA)
  IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY OF MICROBIAL CHEMICAL FACTORIES USING SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY DEVICES

• Jack Pronk (TU Delft, Netherlands)
  ENGINEERING OF MIXED SUBSTRATE UTILIZATION BY SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE

• Matthias Reuss (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany)
  MULTISCALE MODELING IN CANCER THERAPY-SYNERGISITIC INTERPLAY BETWEEN TARGET IDENTIFICATION AND DRUG DELIVERY

• Uwe Sauer (ETH, Switzerland)
  UNRAVELING ACTIVE METABOLIC REGULATION NETWORKS BY HIGH THROUGHPUT OMICS TECHNIQUES

• Christina Smolke (Stanford Univ, USA)
  ADVANCING SYNTHETIC METABOLIC NETWORK DESIGN THROUGH EMBEDDED SENSING-ACTUATION DEVICES

• Greg Stephanopoulos (MIT, USA)
  MICROBIAL OIL PRODUCTION FROM RENEWABLE FEEDSTOCKS

• Pirkko Suominen (Cargill, USA)
  BIOTECHNOLOGY TO THE BOTTOM-LINE: LOW PH LACTIC ACID PRODUCTION AT INDUSTRIAL SCALE

• Keith Tyo (Chalmers Univ of Technol, Sweden)
  CHEMICALLY INDUCIBLE CHROMOSOMAL EVOLUTION (CICHE): INCREASING GENETIC STABILITY BY AVOIDING THE PITFALLS OF PLASMIDS

• Francois Voelker (Metabolic Explorer, France)
  DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMICALLY SUSTAINABLE BIOPROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BIO 1,2-PROPANEDIOL

• Chris Voigt (UC San Francisco, USA)
  REFACTORING COMPLEX GENE CLUSTERS IN BACTERIA

• Hans Westerhoff (Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, UK)
  TARGETING THE ELUSIVE NETWORKS

• Gregg Whited (Danisco, USA)
  BIOISOPRENE?: TRADITIONAL MONOMER, TRADITIONAL CHEMISTRY, SUSTAINABLE SOURCE.

• Wolfgang Wiechert (Institute of Biotechnology 2, Research Center Julich)
  THE CITRIC ACID CYCLE FROM A SYSTEMS BIOLOGY VIEWPOINT: SYSTEMATIC GENERATION OF NEW INSIGHTS INTO A CENTRAL PATHWAY

• Stefan Wildt (Merck & Co., USA)
  OMICS APPROACHES AS A TOOL TO INCREASE BIOPROCESS PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAST-BASED GLYCOFI EXPRESSION PLATFORM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THERAPEUTIC GLYCOPROTEINS

• Christoph Wittmann (Tech Univ Braunschweig, Germany)
  FROM ZERO TO HERO DESIGN OF A TAILOR-MADE CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM STRAIN FOR PRODUCTION OF DIAMINOPENTANE TOWARDS BIO-BASED POLYAMIDES

• Thomas Wood (Texas A&M Univ, USA)
  METABOLIC AND PROTEIN ENGINEERING FOR FERMENTATIVE HYDROGEN PRODUCTION FROM GLUCOSE AND GLYCEROL

• Quinn Q. Zhu (DuPont, USA)
  METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA: PRODUCTION OF EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID-RICH OIL FOR COMMERCIALIZATION