Strategies for improving the photon usage efficiency and productivity of microalgal cultures
Zoee Gokhale¹, Clayton Stroff² and Richard Sayre¹, (1)Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St Louis, MO, (2)Phycal, LLC

A novel, cost-effective method for producing ethanol from carbon dioxide in hybrid algae
Craig R. Smith, Paul Woods and Ed Legere, Algenol Biofuels Inc., Naples, FL

Techno-economic analysis of biomass-to-hydrocarbons via the MixAlco process
Mark T. Holtzapple¹, Mahmoud El-Halwagi¹, Viet Pham¹ and Cesar B. Granda², (1)Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, (2)Terrabon, Inc., Bryan, TX

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Clostridium beijerinckii tolerance improvement to biomass hydrolysate inhibitors during the acetone butanol and ethanol (ABE) fermentation
Hans P. Blaschek and Yi Wang, Inst. for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Drop-In Hydrocarbon Chemicals, Fuels and Materials from Plant Biomass Derived Isobutanol:  Progress towards Commercialization
David Glassner, Gevo, Inc., Englewood, CO

Development of microalgal biomass feedstocks for the production of advanced, high-energy density biofuels
Al Darzins¹, Lee Elliott², Lieve Laurens¹, Edward J. Wolfrum¹ and Matthew Posewitz², (1)National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, (2)Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO