Monday, April 19, 2010: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Salon F-G (Hilton Clearwater Beach)
Session 2: The Science of Biomass Recalcitrance
Chair:Claus Felby
Co-chair:David K. Johnson
1:00 PMSolving the biomass recalcitrance challenge: Impacts go beyond 2012
Michael E. Himmel, William S. Adney, Shi-you Ding, Michael F. Crowley, David K. Johnson
1:30 PMWhat are the key substrate factors which limit the hydrolysis of biomass by cellulases?
Richard P. Chandra, Jack N. Saddler
2:00 PMThe significance of supramolecular structures of cellulose for the enzymatic hydrolysis of plant cell walls
Lisbeth Thygesen, Budi Juliman Hidayat, Katja Salomon Johansen, Claus Felby
2:30 PMBreak
3:00 PMEffect of lignin chemical structure on inhibition of enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose
Hao Liu, J. Y. Zhu
3:30 PMIdentifying new lignin bioengineering targets: Monolignol substitute impacts on lignin formation and cell wall utilization
John H. Grabber, John Ralph, Xuejun Pan
4:00 PMCellulose hydrolysis kinetics is closely related to its crystalline structure
Shishir Chundawat, Albert Cheh, Leonardo Sousa, Nirmal Uppugundla, Dahai Gao, Paul Langan, S. Gnanakaran, Giovanni Bellesia, Umesh Agarwal, Chris Bianchetti, George Phillips Jr., Venkatesh Balan, Bruce Dale

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