Thursday, August 14, 2008: 2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Golden West Room (Town and Country)
Session 34: Thermophilic Bioprocessing of Lignocellulosic Waste-Materials for Generation of Energy
Convener:Rajesh K. Sani
2:00 PMChallenges in Bioprocessing of Lignocellulose to Fuels and Chemicals
Lew Christopher
2:30 PMHeat and mass transport issues in lignocellulose conversion
Sridhar Viamajala
3:00 PMLignocellulosic-Materials Degradation Using Mesophilic and Thermophilic Cultures from the Deep Subsurface of Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota
Rajesh K. Sani, Gurdeep Rastogi, Akash Adhikari, Geetha L. Muppidi, Sookie S. Bang
3:30 PMCoffee Break
4:00 PMThermophilic hydrolytic enzymes from the maize endophyte Acremonium zeae
Kenneth M. Bischoff
4:30 PMAn overview of studies to characterize a thermo-acid stable xylanase and a thermo-alkali stable catalase from Yellowstone National Park bacteria
William A. Apel, Vicki S. Thompson, David N. Thompson, Kastli D. Schaller
5:00 PMSaccharomyces cerevisiae mass transformed with FLEXGenes results in strain capable of anaerobic fermentation of pentose and hexose sugars
Stephen R. Hughes, Jeremy Javers, Joshua LaBeer, Tauseef Butt, Ronald E. Hector, Bruce S. Dien, Badal C. Saha, Kenneth M. Bischoff, Scott Kohl, Michael A. Cotta, Joseph O. Rich

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