This webinar will discuss how Amyris, a biotechnology company that develops renewable products for a broad range of applications and industries, uses large-scale microbial engineering to support its manufacturing processes.

Organisms offer unparalleled molecular diversity that can be tapped into for a wide array of practical and commercial applications, but there are numerous challenges associated with realizing the full potential within this molecular diversity. Microbes can be engineered to produce many biological targets, but optimizing this process requires repeated iterations of the design-build-test-analyze microbial engineering cycle. The rate at which each phase of the cycle can be executed, as well as the magnitude of strain improvement obtained from each iteration, directly affect the overall development time — and cost — for any product.

Amyris scientists have developed advanced tools for strain engineering, high-throughput screening, analytics, and bioinformatics that accelerate microbial engineering by improving and reducing the number of cycle iterations needed. Central to these capabilities has been the availability of large volumes of low-cost, but high-quality synthetic DNA, which enables the efficient interrogation of a diverse set of hypotheses.

The presentation will cover:

• How Amyris uses Twist DNA for large scale microbial engineering
• The automated platforms that enable Amyris scientists to rapidly cycle through a data-driven strain improvement process
• The role that Amyris biotechnology plays with commercial partners in diverse industries by providing a sustainable, cost-effective alternative to traditional manufacturing practices