Agenda with Abstracts and Presentations
5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.:
Registration/Social Hour
7:00 a.m. – 7:50 a.m.:
Breakfast and Welcome
Conference Registration
7:50 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.:
Welcome and Opening Remarks – Timothy Rials (University of Tennessee)
Plenary Session: Biorefinery Concepts for Chemicals and Products
Moderator: Liam Leighlty (Institute for Advanced Learning and Research)
8:00 a.m. – 8:40 a.m.:
Computational Modeling of Biomass Conversion Systems
Gregg Beckham (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
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8:40 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.:
Manipulation of Lignin Biosynthesis in Plants: The Low Hanging Fruit in Feedstock Improvement for the Biorefinery
Clint Chapple (Purdue University)
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9:20 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.:
Innovative Biomanufacturing Platform: CellFree Synthetic Pathway Biotransformation
Percival Zhang (Virginia Tech)
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10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.:
Coffee Break
10:15 a.m. – 10:55 a.m.:
High Terpene Pines: Transforming Existing and Enabling New Forest Biorefineries
Gary Peter (University of Florida)
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10:55 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.:
Biorefinery Development: The Danish Perspective
Claus Felby (University of Copenhagen)
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11:35 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.:
Integrating Separation and Conversion – Transforming Biorefinery Process Streams to Biobased Chemicals and Fuels
Joe Bozell (University of Tennessee)
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.:
Lunch
Introduction to IBSS, Southeastern Partnership for Integrated Biomass Supply Systems
Timothy G. Rials (University of Tennessee)
Session 2A: From Pretreatment to Fractionation (1:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.)
Moderator: Percival Zhang (Virginia Tech)
Biomass Into Bioproducts
Julie Carrier (University of Arkansas)
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Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Ethanol Organosolv Pretreated Loblolly Pine and Sweetgum
Maobing Tu (Auburn University)
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A Biological Approach to Cleaning up Fermentation Inhibitors Present in Sugar Biomass
Nancy Nichols (USDA – National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research)
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Biobutanol from Forest Residues by SO2 Ethanol–Water Fractionation and ABE Fermentation
Adriaan van Heiningen (University of Maine)
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“Melt–Compounded” Biomass: A Unique Pretreatment for Cellulose Saccharification and Lignin Extraction
Scott Renneckar (Virginia Tech)
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Effect of Surfactants PreTreatment on Lignocellulosic Biomass
Rashmi Kataria (Trinity College Dublin)
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Session 2B: Chemical Catalysis (1:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.)
Moderator: Laura Jarboe (Iowa State University)
Mechano–Catalytic Depolymerization of Cellulose
Roberto Rinaldi (MaxPlanck Institute)
The BBB Process: Biomass to Biofuels and Bioproducts
Michel Delmas (University of Toulouse)
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Alloyed Bimetallic Catalysts to Manipulate Product Distributions During the Oxydation of Polyols
Peter Miedziak (Cardiff University)
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Biobased Surfactants: A Useful Biorefinery Product That Can Be Prepared Using Green Manufacturing
Doug Hayes (University of Tennessee)
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Preparation and Characterization of Modified Lignin for the Production of Carbon Fibers
Sabornie Chatterjee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Poster Session
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Please click on the Posters page to see the posters list and download posters and abstracts in PDF format
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.:
Breakfast
Session 3A: Biocatalytic Conversion (8:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.)
Moderator: Claus Felby (University of Copenhagen)
Redesigning E.coli Metabolism for Obligate Anaerobic Production of Biofuels and Biochemicals
Cong Trinh (University of Tennessee)
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Investigation of Structural Changes in Cel7A Cellulase when Bound to Cellulose Substrates
Hugh O’Neill (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Genetic Engineering of Streptomyces Bacteria as Lignocellulose Biorefineries
Jason Sello (Brown University)
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Producing Drop–In Hydrocarbon Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass Materials
Birgitte Ahring (Washington State University)
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Cellulase Production by Solid State Fermentation on Wet Corn Distillers Grains
Hossein Noureddini (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
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Exploiting Nature’s Diversity for the Development of Chemical Building Blocks
Christian Stevens (Ghent University)
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Conversion of Cellulosic Biomass from Grass into fermentable Sugars and its Effective Utilization for Biosynthesis of Medium Chain Length Polyhydroxyalkanoates (MCL–PHA) by Pseudomonas SSP
Reeta Davis (University College Dublin)
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Session 3B: Advances in Analytical Techniques and Computational Processes (8:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.)
Moderator: Peter Muller (Perkin Elmer)
Surface and Subsurface Physical and Chemical Characterization of Soft Materials at the Nanoscale
Laurene Tetard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Enabling Robust Production of Biorenewable Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass
Laura Jarboe (Iowa State University)
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Tandem Mass Spectrometry in the Characterization of Converted Biomass
Hilkka Kenttämaa (Purdue University)
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Applications of Computational Chemistry to the Reactions of Lignin
Thomas Elder (USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station)
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Overcoming Recalcitrance of Biobased Feedstocks Through Catalytic Conversions
Gnana Gnanakaran (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Lignin Model Pyrolysis: a Computational Approach
Ariana Beste (University of Tennessee)
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From Paper Trails to Electronic Management Systems: Green Lining for the Biomass Conversion Process
Anis Khimani (Perlin Elmer)
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Free Time
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.:
Social Hour
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.:
Conference Dinner
Lignin Rich Residues from Biomass to Chemicals and Fuels
Guliz Elliott (Chemtex International, Inc.)
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7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.:
Breakfast
Session 4A: Chemical Processes (8:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.)
Moderator: Gregg Beckham (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Catalytic Strategies for the Selective Hydrogenolysis of Lignin and Selective Defunctionalization of Bio–0il Under Low–Severity Conditions
Roberto Rinaldi (Max–Planck Institute)
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High Throughput Biomass Conversion in Supercritical Water and Product Separations as an “End of Pipe” Technology in a Biomass Refinery
Doug Hendry (University of Missouri)
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Conversion of Sugars to Hydrocarbons via Depolymerization and Decarboxylation of Polyhydroxyalkanoates
David Johnson (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
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Carbon Fiber from Engineered Lignin
Darren Baker (University of Tennessee)
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Pyrolysis of Lignin to Create a New Foundry Fuel Source
Nicole Brown (Pennsylvania State University)
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Cheap and Abundant Catalysts for Biomass Conversion Including Lignin
Mahdi AbuOmar (Purdue University)
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Session 4B: Industrial Processes (8:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.)
Moderator: Barry Goodell (Virginia Tech)
New Technologies for Wood Pretreatment within the Concept of the Biorefinery and Novel Uses of Cell Wall Components
Orlando Rojas (North Carolina State University)
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Biosynthesis and Characterization of MediumChainLength Poly(3Hydroxyalkanoates)
Hideki Abe (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
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Production of High – Valued Chemicals from Fractional Catalytic Pyrolysis of Biomass)
Foster Agblevor (Utah State University)
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Engineering Bacteria to Produce BioStyrene and Other Aromatic Chemicals
David Nielsen (Arizona State University)
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Advanced Purification Technologies for your BioBased Chemicals
John Bhatt (Novasep)
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