| Wednesday, May 6, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM | |||
| Grand Ballroom A-B (InterContinental San Francisco Hotel) | |||
| Session 10: Enzyme Science and Technology 2 | |||
| 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: | Jim Brainard | ||
| Co-chair: | Edmund Larenas | ||
| 8:00 AM | 10-01 | Enzymatic synergy examined using an engineered complex of cellulosomal enzymes from Clostridium thermocellum Chad Paavola, Shigenobu Mitsuzawa, Suzanne Chan, Hiromi Kagawa, Sigrid Reinsch, Oana Marcu, Sharmila Bhattacharya, Natalya Dvorochkin, Eduardo Almeida, Yifen Li, Jonathan Trent | |
| 8:30 AM | 10-02 | The three-dimensional structure of an intact glucoamylase gives insight on how substrate is directed towards the active site Henrik Hansson, Richard Bott, Mats Sandgren, Saeid Karkehabadi, Mae Saldajeno, William Cuevas, Donald Ward, Martijn Scheffers, Wolfgang Aehle | |
| 9:00 AM | 10-03 | Computational Estimates of Free Energy Profiles of Cellodextrin Motion in Cel7A Reaction Tunnel Michael F. Crowley, Gregg T. Beckham, Michael E. Himmel | |
| 9:30 AM | Break | ||
| 10:00 AM | 10-04 | A Family of Thermostable Fungal Cellulases Created by Structure-Guided Recombination Pete Heinzelman, Christopher D. Snow, Indira Wu, Alan Villabolos, Sridhar Govindarajan, Jeremy Minshull, Frances H. Arnold | |
| 10:30 AM | 10-05 | Engineering cellulases on their natural substrates by directed evolution Wenjin Liu, Xiaozhou Zhang, Zuoming Zhang, Percival Zhang | |
| 11:00 AM | 10-06 | Developing Improved Thermostable Cellulases: High-Throughput Cellulolytic Assays and Protein Engineering Strategies Harshal A. Chokhawala, Tae-Wan Kim, Craig Dana, Dana Nadler, Harvey W. Blanch, Douglas S. Clark | |
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