| 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 | Biobased: Making it competitive and sustainable Robert Fireovid | ||||||
9:00 AM | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | FT-IR analysis of oil feedstock and biodiesel quality Justin R. Barone | ||||||
11:45 AM | 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 | 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 | Parthenium argentatum as a source of biobased products Colleen M. McMahan Katrina Cornish, Maureen Whalen | ||||||
2:25 PM | Castor oil: Biosynthesis and uses Thomas A. McKeon Xiaohua He, Grace Q. Chen, Jiann-Tsyh Lin | ||||||
2:50 PM | Structure-function relationships of a catalytically efficient β-D-xylosidase Douglas B. Jordan | ||||||
3:15 PM | Intermission | ||||||
3:30 PM | Enzymatic dewatering of distillers grains Ana B. Henriques David B. Johnston, Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan | ||||||
3:55 PM | Biobased industrial lubricants Brajendra K. Sharma Sevim Z. Erhan | ||||||
4:20 PM | 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 | Synthesis of long-chain unsaturated-α,ω- dicarboxylic acids from renewable materials via olefin metathesis Helen L. Ngo Thomas A. Foglia |