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Microbial Energy Conversion revisited

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Peter Dürre is currently the head of the Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology of the University of Ulm, Germany. His research interests focus on anaerobic bacteria. Major projects involve regulation of acetone and butanol formation in Clostridium acetobutylicum, metabolic engineering of solvent-producing and biofuel-producing strains for industrial use, cell differentiation (spore formation) in clostridia, construction, and application of clostridial recombinant endospores for cancer

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Peter Dürre is currently the head of the Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology of the University of Ulm, Germany. His research interests focus on anaerobic bacteria. Major projects involve regulation of acetone and butanol formation in Clostridium acetobutylicum, metabolic engineering of solvent-producing and biofuel-producing strains for industrial use, cell differentiation (spore formation) in clostridia, construction, and application of clostridial recombinant endospores for cancer treatment, and identification of acne-causing enzymes in Propionibacterium acnes for selective inhibition and thus disease therapy.

Thomas Richard is a professor of biological engineering and director of the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment. His research applies microbial bioconversion technologies for value-added manufacturing, with a particular focus on sustainable strategies for bioenergy production and use. Recent work includes synthetic biology in Lactobacillus spp. for biomass storage and hydrolysis. He is active in several professional societies, the iGEM synthetic biology competition, and is a fellow of the Institute of Biological Engineering.

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