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10: Enzyme Science and Technology 2

Wednesday, May 6, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Ballroom A-B (InterContinental San Francisco Hotel)
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, NASA Ames Research Center; Shigenobu Mitsuzawa, University of California, Santa Cruz; Suzanne Chan, SETI Institute; Hiromi Kagawa, SETI Institute; Sigrid Reinsch, NASA Ames Research Center; Oana Marcu, National Space Grant Foundation; Sharmila Bhattacharya, NASA Ames Research Center; Natalya Dvorochkin, National Space Grant Foundation; Eduardo Almeida, NASA Ames Research Center; Yifen Li, SETI Institute; Jonathan Trent, NASA Ames Research Center
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, Swedish University of Agrucultural Sciences; Richard Bott, Genencor - A Danisco Division; Mats Sandgren, Swedish University of Agrucultural Sciences; Saeid Karkehabadi, Swedish University of Agrucultural Sciences; Mae Saldajeno, Genencor - A Danisco Division; William Cuevas, Genencor - A Danisco Division; Donald Ward, Genencor - A Danisco Division; Martijn Scheffers, Genencor - A Danisco Division; Wolfgang Aehle, Genencor - A Danisco Division
9:00 AM
10-03
Computational Estimates of Free Energy Profiles of Cellodextrin Motion in Cel7A Reaction Tunnel
Michael F. Crowley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Gregg T. Beckham, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Michael E. Himmel, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
9:30 AM
Break
10:00 AM
10-04
A Family of Thermostable Fungal Cellulases Created by Structure-Guided Recombination
Pete Heinzelman, Caltech; Christopher D. Snow, Caltech; Indira Wu, Caltech; Alan Villabolos, DNA2.0 Inc; Sridhar Govindarajan, DNA2.0 Inc; Jeremy Minshull, DNA2.0 Inc; Frances H. Arnold, Caltech
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10:30 AM
10-05
Engineering cellulases on their natural substrates by directed evolution
Wenjin Liu, Virginia Tech; Xiaozhou Zhang, Virginia Tech; Zuoming Zhang, Virginia Tech; Percival Zhang, Virginia Tech University
11:00 AM
10-06
Developing Improved Thermostable Cellulases: High-Throughput Cellulolytic Assays and Protein Engineering Strategies
Harshal A. Chokhawala, Energy Biosciences Institute; Tae-Wan Kim, Energy Biosciences Institute; Craig Dana, University of California, Berkeley; Dana Nadler, University of California, Berkeley; Harvey W. Blanch, University of California, Berkeley; Douglas S. Clark, University of California, Berkeley
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