Methane Biocatalysis: Paving the Way to Sustainability

1. Engineering soluble methane monooxygenase for biocatalysis. (Tom Smith; Biomedical Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 2. C1 and N cycles. (Lisa Stein; Alberta University, Canada) 3. Metabolic Engineering in methanotrophic bacteria. (Michael Guarnieri; NREL, US) 4. Potential for landfill methane utilization. (James Strong; Centre for Solid Waste Bioprocessing, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) 5. Rethinking C1-catalysis. (Ramon Gonzales; Rice University, USA) 6. TEA/LCA of methane utilization. (Derek Griffin; Lanzatech, USA) 7. Methanotrophy in moss: ubiquitous symbiotic relationship. (Chen Yin & Colin Murrell; University of Warwick, UK) 8. Verrucomicrobia - a new phylum of methanotrophic bacteria. (Huub J.M. Op den Camp & Jetten MSM; Radboud University Nijmegen) 9. Metals in methanotrophy. (Jeremy Semrau & Allan DiSpirito; University of Michig an, USA) 10. Systems biology and metabolic modeling of C1-metabolism. (Akberdin Ilya & Kalyuzhnaya Marina; SDSU, San Diego, USA) 11. From methanol to value added chemicals via metabolic engineering of methylotrophic cell factories (MeCFs). (Chong Zhang & Xin-Hui Xing; Tsinghua University, China) 12. Mixed methanotrophic consortium from coal mine for promising applications in environmental bioengineering and biocatalysis. (Hao Jiang & Xin-Hui Xing; Tsinghua University, China) 13. Methanol biosynthesis using methanotrophs. (Toshiaki Kamachi & Ichiro Okura, Tokyo Tech, Japan)