Biobased Fuels and Chemicals II

Wednesday, November 10, 2010: 3:15 PM
255 A Room (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Description:
Biofuels and biochemicals represent a secure, renewable, and environmentally safe alternative to petroleum-derived fuels and chemicals. This session will focus on the biological production of biofuels and biochemicals from renewable feedstocks. Topics on both enzymatic and whole-cell bioconversions are of primary interest.


Sponsor:
Bioengineering
Co-Sponsor(s):
Sustainable Biorefineries (23B)


Chair:
Shijie Liu
Email: sliu@esf.edu

Co-Chair:
Mattheos A. G. Koffas
Email: mkoffas@eng.buffalo.edu

- indicates paper has an Extended Abstract file available on CD.



3:15 PM
(512a) A Genomic Approach for Elucidating and Improving Isobutanol Tolerance in Escherichia Coli
Jeremy J. Minty, Ann Lesnefsky, Fengming Lin, Yuan Gao, Bin Xie, Jean-Marie Rouillard, Yu Chen, Erdogan Gulari and Xiaoxia Nina Lin

File available
3:35 PM


3:55 PM
(512c) Potential Resources of Microalgae Oils for Biofuels Feedstock Production
Haiying Tang, Meng Chen, Danton Garcia, Nadia J. Abunasser, K. Y. Simon Ng and Steven O. Salley



4:35 PM


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