Engineering microbial consortia for biotechnology

Abstract

An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in microbial biotechnology Engineering microbial consortia http://www.cell.com/trends/biotechnology/abstract/ S0167-7799(08)00171-6 This important review article helped start a trend of syn-thetic biologists focusing on using mixed cultures to engi-neer interspecies metabolism and regulatory networks. Synthetic fungal-bacterial consortia http://www.pnas.org/content/110/36/14592.short In nature, fungi and bacteria team up to transform cellu-lose into end products. This particular report describes cellulose conversion to isobutanol. This e-book provides an engineering view of using mixed prokaryotic species for carrying out industrially relevant processes. Design of microbial consortia for industrial biotechnology http://yoric.mit.edu/design-microbial-consortia-industrial -biotechnology This report from a conference proceedings describes a chemical engineering approach to designing multi-species systems for robust industrial biotechnology.