Industrial Biotechnology

PART I - INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: FROM PIONEERS TO VISIONARY
1. History of Industrial Biotechnology
2. Synthetic Biology: An Emerging Approach for Strain Engineering
3. Towards Efficient Genome-Scale Metabolic Pathway Analysis
4. Cell-Free Synthetic Systems for Metabolic Engineering and Biosynthetic Pathway Prototyping
 
PART II - MULTI-PURPOSE BACTERIAL CELL FACTORIES
5. Industrial Biotechnology: Escherichia coli as a Host
6. Industrial Microorganisms: Corynebacterium glutamicum
7. Host Organisms: Bacillus subtilis
8. Host Organisms: P. putida
 
PART III - EXPLOITING ANAEROBIC BIOSYNTHETIC POWER
9. Host Organisms: Clostridium acetobutylicum/ Clostridium beijerinckii and Related Organisms
10. Advances in Consolidated Bioprocessing Using Clostridium thermocellum and Thermoanaerobacter saccharolyticum
11. Lactic Acid Bacteria
 
PART IV - MICROBIAL TREASURE CHESTS FOR HIGH-VALUE NATURAL COMPOUNDS
12. Host Organisms: Myxobacterium
13. Host Organisms: Streptomyces
 
PART V - EXTENDING THE RAW MATERIAL BASIS FOR BIO-PRODUCTION
14. Extreme Thermophiles as Metabolic Engineering Platforms: Strategies and Current Perspective
15. Cyanobacteria as a Host Organism
16. Host Organisms: Algae
 
PART VI - EUKARYOTIC WORKHORSES: COMPLEX CELLS ENABLE COMPLEX PRODUCTS
17. Host Organisms: Mammalian Cells
18. Host Organisms: Saccharomyces cerevisiae
19. Industrial Microorganisms: Pichia pastoris

Christoph Wittmann is Director of the Institute of Systems Biotechnology at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. Having obtained his academic degrees from Braunschweig Technical University, Germany, he was postdoc at Helsinki University, Finland, held chairs for Biotechnology at Münster University, Germany, and for Biochemical Engineering at Braunschweig Technical University and was invited guest professor at Université Rangueil de Toulouse, France, before taking up his present position. He has authored more than 150 scientific publications, more than 20 books and book chapters, holds more than 20 patents and has received several scientific awards, including the Young Scientist Award of the European Federation of Biotechnology, and is board member of various scientific journals.
 
James Liao is currently President of Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Having obtained his PhD degree from University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, he started his career at Eastman Kodak Company, before moving to Texas A&M, USA, and then to the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, for his academic career. Professor Liao has received numerous scientific awards, including the US Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award and the Italian ENI award in renewable energy. He is also a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
 
Sang Yup Lee is Distinguished Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is currently the Director of the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biotechnology, Director of the BioProcess Engineering Research Center, and Director of the Bioinformatics Research Center. He has published more than 500 journal papers, 64 books and book chapters, and more than 580 patents (either registered or applied). He received numerous awards, including the National Order of Merit, the Merck Metabolic