FEMS Yeast Res Webinar Advances in Synthetic Biology Tools to Engineer Yeast Cells for Biotechnology

Yeasts have long been used to produce alcoholic beverages and fuel ethanol. Its fast growth, well-developed genetics, robustness in large-scale fermentations and resistance to inhibitors and phages have made it the preferred microbial cell factories for production a broad range of valuable products such as biofuels, biochemicals, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals. Synthetic biology aims to build genetic circuits and synthetic cells to understand native biological systems and harness them for a wide range of applications. Exciting advances are now being made in the application of synthetic biology to yeast metabolic engineering for biotechnology. Originally aired on Thursday 5th November 2020, this webinar features authors of recent papers in FEMS Yeast Research: Chair: John Morrissey , Editor-in-Chief of FEMS Yeast Research - Speaker 1: Hal Alper, Associate Chair, Z.D. Bonner Professorship in Chemical Engineering; Cockrell Family Dean’s Chair in Engineering Excellence, The University of Texas at Austin (USA) Author of: Matthew Deaner, Hal S Alper, Enhanced scale and scope of genome engineering and regulation using CRISPR/Cas in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, FEMS Yeast Research, Volume 19, Issue 7, November 2019, foz076, https://academic.oup.com/femsyr/artic... - Speaker 2: Jin Hou, Associate Professor, Shandong University, Jinan (SDU), China Author of: Chenxi Qiu, Haotian Zhai, Jin Hou, Biosensors design in yeast and applications in metabolic engineering, FEMS Yeast Research, Volume 19, Issue 8, December 2019, foz082, https://academic.oup.com/femsyr/artic... - Follow us on: Facebook -   / femsmicro   Twitter -   / femsmicro   Instagram -   / femsmicro   LinkedIn -   / federation-of-european-microbiological-soc...   Visit our Website - https://www.fems-microbiology.org