2010 Annual Meeting

Session: Biological Conversions and Processes for Renewable Feedstocks

Explore advances in products and processes based on biologically-mediated catalysis of renewable substrates. Favor papers demonstrating the sound application of core scientific and engineering principles.

Chair

Nasib Qureshi, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA-ARS

Co-Chair

David Hodge, Michigan State University

Presentations

08:30 AM

(200a) Thermotolerant Bioprocessing of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Cost-Efficient Bioethanol Production
Lew P. Christopher, Vasudeo Zambare, Aditya Bhalla, Santosh Bandlamudi, Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan, Rajesh Sani

08:55 AM

(200b) Variations of Acetone Butanol Ethanol (ABE) Yield Among Solventogenic Clostridium Species
Thaddeus Ezeji

09:20 AM

(200c) Evaluation of Mountain Beetle-Infested Lodgepole Pine for Cellulosic Ethanol Production by SPORL Pretreatment
J.Y. Zhu, Roland Gleisner, Xuejun Pan, Jose Negron, Shen Tian, Eric Horn, Xiaolin Luo, Wenyuan Zhu

09:45 AM

(200d) The Mechanism of Inhibition On Cellulose Hydrolysis by Different Chain Length Xylooligomers
Qing Qing, Charles E. Wyman

10:10 AM

(200e) Enhanced Propionic Acid Production by Engineered Propionibacteria Overexpressing CoA Transferase in Extractive Fermentation
Zhongqiang Wang, Shang-Tian Yang

10:35 AM

(200f) Lignin Modification and Its Effect Upon Lignocellulose Degradation in Termite
Shulin Chen, Jing Ke, Deepak Singh, Dhrubo Laskar, Jijiao Zeng