Monday, May 4, 2009: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Ballroom A-B (InterContinental San Francisco Hotel)
Session 5: Enzyme Science and Technology 1
This session will highlight advances in enzyme discovery, characterization and modification to improve enzyme performance as well as progress on cost effectively producing and applying enzymes to biorefinery processes. [Sessions 5 and 10]
Chair:Joel Kreps
Co-chair:Lew Christopher
1:00 PMThermostable fungal lignocellulosic biomass saccharification enzyme cocktail
Manoj Kumar
1:30 PMImpact of solids loading on the economics of a lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol conversion process
David Humbird, Ali Mohagheghi, Nancy Dowe, Daniel J. Schell
2:00 PMSubstrate-Based Limitations in the Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose: Crystallinity, Reactivity and Adsorption
Mélanie Hall, Prabuddha Bansal, Jay Lee, Matthew Realff, Andreas S. Bommarius
2:30 PMBreak
3:00 PMCharacterization of novel bacterial expansins that promote enzymatic hydrolysis of plant cell wall polymers
Kyoung Heon Kim, Hee Jin Lee, Eun Sil Kim, In Jung Kim, In-Geol Choi
3:30 PMIndustrial level production of enzymes by Trichoderma reesei for cellulosic bioethanol
Peter L. Bergquist, Shingo Miyauchi, K. M. Helena Nevalainen, V. S. Junior T'eo
4:00 PMUse of palm kernel press cake for production of bioethanol and feed
Henning Jřrgensen, Claus Felby, Anand R. Sanadi, Niels Erik Krebs Lange, Steffen Ernst

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