Session 21: Enzyme Science and Technology III – Discovery, Engineering, and Production
Thursday, April 28, 2016: 1:00 PM-4:25 PM
Key Ballroom 3-4, 2nd fl (Hilton Baltimore)
Conveners:
Kyria L. Boundy-Mills - University of California Davis and Elena Y. Vlasenko - Novozymes, Inc.
1:00 PM
Improved enzyme-substrate interactions enhance cellulose hydrolysis when using high biomass concentrations and low enzyme loadings
Jinguang Hu1, Rui Zhai1, Timo van der Zwan1, Keith Gourlay1, Richard P. Chandra1, Sarah Teter2 and Jack Saddler1, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Novozymes, Inc., Davis, CA, USA
1:25 PM
Light-driven enzymatic degradation of lignocellulose by pigments and metalloenzymes
David Cannella1, Klaus Mollers2, Niels-Ulrik Frigaard3, Pouk Erik Jensen2, Prof. Morten Jannik Bjerrum2, Dr. Katja Salomon Johansen4 and Claus Felby1, (1)University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark, (2)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (3)University of Copenhagen, Helsingør, Denmark, (4)Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden
1:50 PM
Engineering a thermophilic filamentous fungus into a high performance host for cellulase production
Timo Schuerg, Raphael Gabriel and Steven Singer, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA
2:15 PM
Break
2:45 PM
Functional characterization of a superoxide dismutase and a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase AA10 from the lower termite Coptotermes gestroi
Mr. João Paulo Franco Cairo1, David Cannella2, Dr. Fernanda Mandelli1, Robson Tramontina1, Dr. Luciana Mofatto3, Dr. Marcelo Falsarella Carazzolle4, Dr. Thabata Maria Alvarez1, Prof. Ana Maria Costa-Leonardo5, Prof. Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães Pereira6, Claus Felby2 and Prof. Fabio M. Squina1, (1)Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE), Campinas, Brazil, (2)University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark, (3)State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, (4)State University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil, (5)Universidade Paulista Julio de Mesquita FIlho, Rio Claro, Brazil, (6)University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil, Brazil
3:10 PM
Characterization of plant biomass-degrading microbial consortia by metasecretomics-based approaches
Dr. Diego Javier Jiménez1, Mr. Mukil Maruthamuthu1, Dr. Maria Julia de Lima Brossi1, Dr. Julia Schückel2, Dr. Stjepan Krešimir Kraèun2, Prof. William George Tycho Willats2 and Prof. Jan Dirk van Elsas1, (1)University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, (2)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
3:35 PM
Nature's cellulase diversity: Fungal and bacterial multifunctional enzyme systems compared
Roman Brunecky1, John M. Yarbrough1, Bryon Donohoe1, Ashutosh Mittal2, Michael E. Himmel1 and Yannick Bomble1, (1)National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA, (2)NREL, Golden, CO, USA
4:00 PM
Microbial glucuronoyl esterases – ten years after discovery
Peter Biely, Miroslava Duranová, Silvia Spaniková, Vladimir Puchart and Lucia Franová, Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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