29: Microbial Electrobiosynthesis

Wednesday, July 27, 2011: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Nottoway, 4th fl (Sheraton New Orleans)
Chair:
Enrico Marsili
8:30 AM
Studying extracellular electron transfer in microbial fuel cells at the single cell and biofilm level
Bradley R. Ringeisen1, Justin C. Biffinger1, Lisa A. Fitzgerald1, Ricky Ray2, Brenda Little1, Jinsong Hu3, Xiaocheng Jiang1 and Charles M. Lieber1, (1)Chemistry, NRL, Washington, DC, (2)Oceanography, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS, (3)Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
9:00 AM
Development of Methods to Engineer Microbial Biocatalytic Coating Microstructure for Optimal Reactivity in Composite or Bioelectronic Devices
Michael C. Flickinger1, Jessica Jenkins2, Oscar Bernal2 and Orlin D. Velev2, (1)Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & BTEC, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, (2)Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
9:30 AM
Break
10:00 AM
An in silico Characterization of Microbial Electrosynthesis for Metabolic Engineering of Biochemicals
Aditya Vikram Pandit, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Radakrishnan Mahadevan, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
10:30 AM
Biosynthesis of Hydrocarbons
Lawrence P. Wackett, Biochemistry and BioTechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
11:00 AM
Beyond graphite: novel nanostructured interfaces for electroactive biofilms characterization
Anand Jain1, Xiaoming Zhang1, Yujing Liu2, Dina Fattakhova Rohlfing2 and Enrico Marsili1, (1)School of Biotechnology, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, (2)Department of Chemistry and Center for NanoScience,, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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