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2012: Celebrating 50 years of international, interdisciplinary engineering conferences

Metabolic Engineering IX
An ECI Conference Series

June 3-7, 2012
Biarritz, France

About This Conference

Synopsis:
Metabolic Engineering is the longest running conference of its kind, which has been held every two years since 1996. Then Professor Stephanopoulos established the Metabolic Engineering Conference by organizing the former Recombinant DNA Biotechnology conference with a theme "Focus on Metabolic Engineering" at Danvers, Massachusetts. Two years later, Professor Reuss organized Metabolic Engineering II in Elmau, Germany. In 2000, Professor Sinskey organized the third conference at Colorado Springs, Colorado. The 4th and 5th Metabolic Engineering Conferences were organized by Professor Nielsen and Professor Liao at Il Ciocco, Italy and Olympic Valley, California in 2002 and 2004, respectively. In 2006, Professor Heijnen and Dr. Bovenberg organized Metabolic Engineering VI with a theme of "from recDNA towards engineering biological systems" at Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands. Metabolic Engineering VII was organized by Professor Hatzimanikatis and Dr. Laffend at Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, with a theme of "health and sustainability". Metabolic Engineering VIII with the theme "Metabolic Engineering for Green Growth" was held on Jeju Island, Korea and was organized by Professor Lee.

Following the great success of the previous conferences, the 9th Metabolic Engineering conference will continue to be a leading conference for sharing the state-of-the-art developments and achievements made in the field of metabolic engineering over the last two years. The conference will have sessions that integrate the recent achievements made in the fields of systems biology, synthetic biology, biochemical engineering, tools and methods, and emerging techniques, healthcare, biofuels, chemicals and materials, microbial and mammalian systems, and other disciplines and applications. Plenary lectures are planned to show potential future trends. A major emphasis is put on the poster sessions serving as scientific market place.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

  • Jim Liao, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
  • Sang Yup Lee, KAIST, Korea
  • Gregory Stephanopoulos, MIT, USA
Confirmed Session Titles and Session Chairs
  1. Metabolic Engineering for Fuels
    (J. Keasling, USA / A. Kondo Japan)
  2. Metabolic Engineering for Chemicals and Materials
    (F. Srienc, USA / G. Chen, China)
  3. Emerging tools and Methods in Metabolic Engineering
    (V. Hatzimanikatis, Switzerland / J.J. Heijnen, The Netherlands)
  4. Systems Biology and Metabolic Engineering
    (J. Nielsen, Denmark / W. Wiechert, Germany)
  5. Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering
    (Ch. Smolke, Stanford Univ., USA / A.P. Zeng, Germany)
  6. Metabolic Engineering of Industrial Microorganisms
    (C. Wittmann, Germany / L.K. Nielsen, Australia)
  7. Metabolic Engineering of Cell Culture and for Health
    (M. Fussenegger, CH / M. Betenbaugh, USA)
  8. Industrial Applications of Metabolic Engineering
    (R.Gonzalez, USA / O. Zelder, Germany)
Poster Chairs
Hal Alper (Univ. of Texas, USA)
Chetan T. Goudar (Bayer Healthcare, USA)
Isabelle Meynials-Salles (Univ. Toulouse, France)
Caroline Peres (Danisco, USA)

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