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Screening for cellulases with industrial value and their use in biomass conversion / Julia Jüergensen, Nele Ilmberger, and Wolfgang R. Streit -- Reversal of NAD(P)H cofactor dependence by protein engineering / Sabine Bastian and Frances H. Arnold -- Quantifying plasmid copy number to investigate plasmid dosage effects associated with directed protein evolution / Samuel Million-Weaver ... [et al.] -- High isoprenoid flux Escherichia coli as a host for carotenoids production / Wonchul Suh -- Mutagenic inverted repeats assisted genome engineering (MIRAGE) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae : deletion of gal7 / Nikhil U. Nair and Huimin Zhao -- Creation of new metabolic pathways or improvement of existing metabolic enzymes by in vivo evolution in Escherichia coli / Isabelle Meynial-Salles and Philippe Soucaille -- Bioluminescent reporter genes for promoter discovery / Tina K. Van Dyk -- Recombination-based DNA assembly and mutagenesis methods for metabolic engineering / Xiquan Liang ... [et al.] -- Ethanol-tolerant gene identification in Clostridium thermocellum using pyro-resequencing for metabolic engineering / Shihui Yang, Dawn M. Klingeman, and Steven D. Brown -- Use of proteomic tools in microbial engineering for biofuel production / Shaoming Mao ... [et al.] -- Metabolic engineering of antibiotic-producing Actinomycetes using in vitro transposon mutagenesis / Andrew R. Reeves and J. Mark Weber -- Use FACS sorting in metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for increased peptide production / Qiong Cheng ... [et al.] -- Using flux balance analysis to guide microbial metabolic engineering / Kathleen A. Curran, Nathan C. Crook, and Hal S. Alper -- Using an advanced microfermentor system for strain screening and fermentation optimization / Dongming Xie -- Rapid strain evaluation using dynamic DO-stat fed-batch fermentation under scale-down conditions / Jun Sun -- Preparation and evaluation of lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysates for growth by ethanologenic yeasts / Ying Zha ... [et al.] -- Engineering whole-cell biosensors with no antibiotic markers for monitoring aromatic compounds in the environment / Aitor de las Heras and Víctor de Lorenzo -- Metabolic engineering for acetate control in large scale fermentation / Yong Tao, Qiong Cheng, and Alexander D. Kopatsis -- Minimization and prevention of phage infections in bioprocesses / Marcin Los.