Wednesday, 3/28/2007
8:30 AM - 5:10 PM  McCormick Place South  S103D, Level 1, Oral

AGRO

Agricultural Biomass, Biobased Products, and Biofuels

Organized by: Justin R. Barone, Cathleen J. Hapeman, Joseph H. Massey, James N. Seiber
Presiding: Cathleen J. Hapeman

8:30 AM

 

             

 

 

 Introductory Remarks
   
 

8:35 AM

 

             

 

147

 Biobased: Making it competitive and sustainable
Robert Fireovid  
 

9:00 AM

 

             

 

148

 Developing herbaceous energy crops as feedstocks for bioethanol production
Bruce S. Dien Michael A. Cotta, Hans-Joachim G. Jung, Kenneth P. Vogel
 

9:25 AM

 

             

 

149

 Alternative feedstocks for renewable green energy fuel
Ashli E. Brown Emily R. Easterling, Elizabeth C. Rogers, William E. Holmes, Rafael Hernandez, W. Todd French
 

9:50 AM

 

             

 

150

 Aspergillus flavus genomic data mining provides clues for its use in producing biobased products
Jiujiang Yu William C. Nierman, Deepak Bhatnagar, Thomas E. Cleveland
 

10:15 AM

 

             

 

 

 Intermission
   
 

10:30 AM

 

             

 

151

 Fully automated molecular biology routines for evaluation and characterization of industrial yeast strains optimized for ethanol production from cellulosic biomass and for biobased-pesticide expression
Stephen R. Hughes  
 

10:55 AM

 

             

 

152

 Biological abatement for removal of inhibitors from biomass sugars
Nancy N. Nichols C. Kevin Chambliss, G. Peter van Walsum, Lekh Nath Sharma, Bruce S. Dien
 

11:20 AM

 

             

 

153

 FT-IR analysis of oil feedstock and biodiesel quality
Justin R. Barone  
 

11:45 AM

 

             

 

154

 Effects of production practices on biodiesel quality
Jose Rodriguez Kevin L. Armbrust
 

12:10 PM

 

             

 

 

 Lunch Break
   
 

4:40 PM

 

             

 

 

 Panel Discussion
   
 

1:30 PM

 

             

 

 

 Introductory Remarks
   
 

1:35 PM

 

             

 

172

 Product identification from the catalytic cracking of cis-9-octadecenoic acid
Tracy J. Benson Rafael Hernandez, W. Todd French, Mark G. White, Earl G. Alley, William E. Holmes
 

2:00 PM

 

             

 

173

 Parthenium argentatum as a source of biobased products
Colleen M. McMahan Katrina Cornish, Maureen Whalen
 

2:25 PM

 

             

 

174

 Castor oil: Biosynthesis and uses
Thomas A. McKeon Xiaohua He, Grace Q. Chen, Jiann-Tsyh Lin
 

2:50 PM

 

             

 

175

 Structure-function relationships of a catalytically efficient β-D-xylosidase
Douglas B. Jordan  
 

3:15 PM

 

             

 

 

 Intermission
   
 

3:30 PM

 

             

 

176

 Enzymatic dewatering of distillers grains
Ana B. Henriques David B. Johnston, Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan
 

3:55 PM

 

             

 

177

 Biobased industrial lubricants
Brajendra K. Sharma Sevim Z. Erhan
 

4:20 PM

 

             

 

178

 Recent advances in bioconversion of agricultural biomass to butanol by fermentation: Employing potential of available renewable resources to produce a superior biofuel
Nasib Qureshi Badal C. Saha, Xin-Liang Li, Stephen R. Hughes, Michael A. Cotta
 

4:45 PM

 

             

 

179

 Synthesis of long-chain unsaturated-α,ω- dicarboxylic acids from renewable materials via olefin metathesis
Helen L. Ngo Thomas A. Foglia