Acknowledgements
The author and organizers of the symposium would like to thank the Society for General Microbiology for their support and the speakers for their contribution: Grant Burgess (University of Newcastle, UK), John Cushman (University of Nevada, NV, USA), Richard Dinsdale (University of Glamorgan, UK), Ashley Franks (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA), Ryan T Gill (Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels, CO, USA), Mike Goosey (Shell, UK), Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal (Lund University, Sweden), Katherine Helliwell (University of Cambridge, UK), Elena Kazamia (University of Cambridge, UK), John Love (University of Exeter, UK), Jim M Lynch (University of Surrey, UK), Lynne E Macaskie (University of Birmingham, UK), Mark Redwood (University of Birmingham, UK), Katja Salomon-Johansen (Novozymes A/S, Denmark), Guido Sanguinetti (University of Edinburgh, UK), Frank Sargent (University of Dundee, UK), Katherine A Smart (University of Nottingham, UK) and Alison Smith (University of Cambridge, UK).
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