ST: International Bioenergy Centers Update

Wednesday, April 21, 2010: 7:00 PM-9:20 PM
Salon A-G (Hilton Clearwater Beach)
Chair:
John Houghton
7:00 PM
Fundamental knowledge for sustainable cellulosic biofuels
Timothy Donohue, Director - Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
7:25 PM
BioEnergy Sciences Center (BESC): An integrated biofuels research strategy to overcome biomass recalcitrance
Martin Keller, Bioenergy Science Center, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
7:50 PM
Advanced biofuels from cellulosic biomass: The Joint BioEnergy Institute
Jay D. Keasling, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA
8:15 PM
BE-Basic: Biorenewables beyond bioethanol
Luuk van der Wielen, Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
8:40 PM
Domestic biofuel production from herbaceous biomass: Research activities of the Biomass Research Center, NARO, Japan
Ken Tokuyasu, Food Resource Division, National Food Research Institute, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
9:05 PM
The Center for Bioenergy Research and Development, an NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center
Duane L. Abata1, Dave Dixon2, Devinder Mahajan3, Steven Peretti4, Mary Rezac5, Ken Swartzel4, Scott Turn6 and Robb Winter2, (1)South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, (2)South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, (3)State University of New York - Stony Brook, (4)North Carolina State University, (5)Kansas State University, (6)University of Hawaii
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