Program

This is a partial listing of sessions subject to change. Sessions are organized by meeting tracks:

B = Biocatalysis
FCC = Fermentation/Cell Culture
EM = Environmental Microbiology
ME = Metabolic Engineering
NP = Natural Products
SS = Special Session

Note: Full day of sessions on Thursday, August 5. Meeting closes at 5:00 PM.

  Sunday afternoon, August 1

11:00 AM   Registration, exhibit and poster setup   Grand Foyer

  Sunday evening, August 1

6:00 PM   Keynote, opening reception, exhibits, poster session 1   Pacific Concourse

  Monday morning, August 2

B      Biocatalysis
B      Biocatalysts by design
EM    In situ bioremediation and ecogenomics
FCC  High throughput fermentation process development-Does it work? How does it         work?
ME    Recent developments in engineering pathways or hosts for the production of          isoprenoid compounds
NP    Emerging sources and strategies in microbial drug discovery

  Monday afternoon, August 2

B      Enzyme function and promiscuity
EM    New industrial developments with extremophiles
FCC  Zymurgy from "B" to "V" (brewing to vinification)
ME    Biochemicals from renewable resources
NP    Biosynthesis and genetic engineering of unusual nitrogenous natural products
SS    USFCC. Taxonomy meets the real world

  Monday evening, August 2

SIM Industry Award lecture by Genentech
Reception, exhibits, poster session 2
Alma Dietz Actinomycete Lecture and Dinner, 7:30 - 9:00 pm

  Tuesday morning, August 3

EM    Biodefense technologies: Testing and evaluation
FCC  Biofuels in the noughties: Are we on track as the biofuel decade draws to a         close?
ME    Systems biology approaches in metabolic engineering
NP    Prenylation reactions in secondary metabolism
SS    Vaccine development -Advances in fermentation and cell culture technology

  Tuesday afternoon, August 3

B      Novel biocatalysts from metagenomics
FCC  Contract biomanufacturing -Challenges and opportunities
ME    Refining nature's hydrocarbons: Engineering fatty acid metabolism for fuel and          chemical production
NP    Antimicrobial natural products
SS    Marcel Faber Roundtable. Biosecurity: Do we need it? What does it mean? How         will we do it?

  Wednesday morning, August 4

B      Biocatalysts for extremophiles
FCC  Modeling of a fermentation process such as online model predictive control,         data analysis and PAT
FCC  Scale up of fermentation process phenotypes
ME    Metabolic engineering approaches toward commodity chemical applications
NP    Introduction and overview of the International Cooperative Biodiversity         Group Program

FREE AFTERNOON

  Thursday morning, August 5

B      Biocatalysis in drug metabolism and prodrug activation
EM    Deconstruction ecogenomics for biofuels
SS    Microbial control
ME    Metabolic engineering tools to enhance production molecules, chemicals and fuels         of commercial value
NP    Biopesticides

  Thursday afternoon, August 5

SS    Charles Thom Award Lecture (1:00-2:00 PM)
        Award winner/Lecturer: Michael Adams, University of Georgia, Athens
        "Biofuels: 2050 and beyond"
FCC  Advances in fermentation and cell culture processes and technologies
SS    Biotechnology for fuels and chemicals
NP    Natural Products
SS    Synthetic Biology
SS    TBA

Meeting closes 5:00 PM.