Metabolic and Control Engineering
Session Chairs
Ziomara Gerdtzen (zgerdtze@ing.uchile.cl) , University of Chile
Wei-Shou Hu (wshu@cems.umn.edu) , University of Minnesota
Sarika Mehra (Sarika@che.iitb.ac.in) , Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay
Manolis Tzanakakis (emtzan@eng.buffalo.edu) , University at Buffalo
Targeted and purposeful alteration of metabolic pathways has transformed the applications of biotechnology in many industrial sectors including chemical, energy, and pharmaceuticals. Although metabolic engineering efforts have been focusing on manipulation of pathways in microorganisms through the introduction or elimination of catalytic steps, the potential of altering the control architecture, especially in cell differentiation and stem cell renewal has also gained momentum in the past few years.
This session will provide a setting for presenting multidisciplinary research that deals with the dynamic complexity of cell metabolic and regulatory networks spanning from stem cell to microbial systems. The session aims to integrate recent advances in genomics, with metabolite and gene expression analyses for bacterial, mammalian and stem cells. Presentations incorporating metabolic profiling, flux analysis with mathematical modeling for metabolic engineering applications are encouraged.