Wednesday, May 6, 2009: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM
Grand Ballroom A-B (InterContinental San Francisco Hotel)
Session 12: Biomass Recalcitrance
It remains challenging to cost-effectively deconstruct biomass, particularly the secondary cell wall of lignocellulosic materials. This session will highlight advances in the study and understanding of plant cell wall structure and composition, emphasizing efforts to improve biomass deconstruction efficiency.
Chair:Chris Somerville
Co-chair:Liisa Viikari
1:00 PM12-01Identification of Desirable Traits in Miscanthus to Enhance Total Sugar Yields in Biological Conversion
Taiying Zhang, Bin Yang, Charles E. Wyman, Fasong Zhou, James Zhang
1:30 PM12-02Elucidation of Alfalfa Lignin Structures on Gene Down-regulation
Yunqiao Pu, Fang Chen, Richard A. Dixon, Mark Davis, Brian H. Davison, Arthur Ragauskas
2:00 PM12-03Small-scale Enzymatic Conversion Screens to Assist in the Development of Improved Energy Crop Varieties
Tanya Kruse, Anthy Alexiades, Greg East, Bonnie R. Hames, Steven R. Thomas
2:30 PM Break
3:00 PM12-04Effects of Chemical Pretreatment on Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Lignocellulose Observed by AFM
Hao Liu, Wenyuan Zhu, J. Y. Zhu, Shiyu Fu
3:30 PM12-05Understanding Ionic Liquid Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomasses
Seema Singh, Rohit Arora, Chithra Manisseri, Chenlin Li, Henrik V. Scheller, Kenneth P. Vogel, Blake A. Simmons
4:00 PM12-06Single Molecule Tracking of Carbohydrate-Binding Modules Bound to Cellulose Crystals
Yu-San Liu, Yining Zeng, Yonghua Luo, Qi Xu, Michael E. Himmel, Steve Smith, Shi-You Ding

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