| Monday, May 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM | |||
| Grand Ballroom C (InterContinental San Francisco Hotel) | |||
| Session 4: Translational Genomics for Bioenergy Feedstocks and Microbes | |||
| Recent advances in systems biology promise to revolutionize the speed and precision with which lignocellulosic plants (biomass feedstocks) can be engineered to improve their value for bioenergy/biofuels applications. Papers in this session will describe recent progress in using genomics tools to characterize and understand plant cell wall synthesis and deconstruction. | |||
| Chair: | Allison Berry | ||
| Co-chair: | David Stalker | ||
| 8:00 AM | 4-01 | Genetic dissection of bioenergy traits in sorghum Wilfred Vermerris, Ana Saballos, Seth Murray, William Rooney, Stephen Kresovich, Jeffrey F. Pedersen, Scott Sattler, Zhanguo Xin | |
| 8:30 AM | 4-02 | Acidothermus cellulolyticus: from genome sequence to plant cell wall deconstruction Ravi D. Barabote, Juanito V. Parales, Rebecca E. Parales, Alison M. Berry | |
| 9:00 AM | 4-03 | Community structure and functional diversity of thermophilic cellulolytic microbial consortia Javier Izquierdo, Elizabeth Barrett, Parker Reed, Maria Sizova, Lee Lynd | |
| 9:30 AM | Break | ||
| 10:00 AM | 4-04 | Discovery of genes that mediate and regulate hemicellulose biosynthesis Kenneth Keegstra, Markus Pauly, Curtis Wilkerson, David Cavalier, Jean-Christoph Cocuron, Jacob Jensen, Nick Thrower, Yan Wang | |
| 10:30 AM | 4-05 | Mining the metatranscriptome of the rumen microbiota for feedstock-targeted glycosyl hydrolases Matthias Hess, Tao Zhang, Susannah Green-Tringe, Roderick Mackie, Eddy Rubin | |
| 11:00 AM | 4-06 | Discovery of Switchgrass Genes through Genomics to Improve Biomass Composition and Conversion Nestor R. Apuya, Maurice Ahyow, Abbey Pierson, Tanya Kruse, Bonnie Hames, Steve Thomas, Roger Pennell | |
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