Keystone Symposia Conference | The Future of Biofuels

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Saturday, April 4
3:00 - 7:30 PM	Registration	Ballroom Lobby
6:30 - 7:30 PM	Refreshments	Ballroom Lobby
7:30 - 9:30 PM	Keynote Session: NGO Perspective on Biofuels Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/04/2009	Ballroom 3
	* William D. Provine, DuPont Company, USA
	Jason Clay, World Wildlife Fund, USA Biofuels—How do we Define Sustainability?


	Judy Siegel, Energy and Security Group, USA Biofuels and Developing Countries
Sunday, April 5
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Ballroom 1 & 2
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Biofuels Value Chain - Needs vs. Wants Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/04/2009	Ballroom 3
	Coleman Jones, General Motors An Automaker Perspective on the Biofuels Value Chain

	Paul A. Willems, Energy Biosciences Institute, USA Talk Title to be Determined
	* William D. Provine, DuPont Company, USA Key Challenges for the Development of Advanced Biofuels

	Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP, Brazil Bioenergy in Brazil

9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Ballroom Lobby
11:00 AM-	On Own for Lunch
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Ballroom 1 & 2
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Ballroom 1 & 2
2:30 - 4:30 PM	Workshop 1: Current Technology Trends	Ballroom 3
	* Chris R. Somerville, Energy Biosciences Institute, USA
	Paul V. Harris, Novozymes, Inc., USA Stimulation of Lignocellulose Hydrolysis by Proteins of Glycoside Hydrolase Family 61 (GH61): A Protein Family in Search of a Function
	James Zhang, Mendel Biotechnology, Inc, USA Miscanthus Variety Development

	Ian Jepson, Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc., USA Conversion of Biomass using Plant-Expressed Cellulases
	Ziv Shani, CBD Technologies Ltd., Israel Enhancement of Plant Biomass by Transgenic Expression of Proteins Active in the Cell Wall

	Robert Harlan Dahl II, University of California, Berkeley, USA Transcriptomic Studies of the Response to Exogenous Exposure and Endogenous Production of Biofuel Candidates in E. coli
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Ballroom Lobby
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Next Generation Advanced Biofuels Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/04/2009	Ballroom 3
	* Doug Cameron, Piper Jaffray & Co, USA
	Jay D. Keasling, University of California, Berkeley, USA Engineering Microbial Metabolism for Production of Advanced Biofuels
	James A. Dumesic, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Next Generation Products from Thermochemical Approaches
	Mark Huntley, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Cellana's Renewable Fuel Production from Marine Photosynthetic Microbes
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Ballroom 1 & 2
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 1 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/04/2009	Ballroom 1 & 2
Monday, April 6
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Ballroom 1 & 2
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Biofuel Feedstock Choices and Modifications Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/04/2009	Ballroom 3
	* Jay D. Keasling, University of California, Berkeley, USA
	Chris R. Somerville, Energy Biosciences Institute, USA Overview of Feedstock Challenges
	Richard B. Flavell, Ceres, Inc., USA Dedicated Energy Crops
	Stephen P. Long, University of Illinois, USA Thinking Outside the Lunch Box: Perennial Bioenergy Feedstocks Viable on Land Unsuited to Food Crops

	John Manners, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Australia From Sugarcane to Energycane
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Ballroom Lobby
11:00 AM-	On Own for Lunch
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Ballroom 1 & 2
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Ballroom 1 & 2
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Ballroom Lobby
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Enablement of Cellulosic Fuels Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/04/2009	Ballroom 3
	* Doug Cameron, Piper Jaffray & Co, USA
	Bruce E. Dale, Michigan State University, USA Achieving Economic and Environmental Benefits from Biofuels: The Role of Innovation and Invention


	Tom Richard, Pennsylvania State University, USA Feedstock Infrastructure: Another Gathering Storm

7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Ballroom 1 & 2
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 2 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/04/2009	Ballroom 1 & 2
Tuesday, April 7
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Ballroom 1 & 2
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Novel Fermentation Strategies Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/04/2009	Ballroom 3
	* Chris R. Somerville, Energy Biosciences Institute, USA
	Lonnie O. Ingram, University of Florida, USA Engineering Biocatalysts for Renewable Fuel and Chemicals
	Harrison F. Dillon, Solazyme, Inc., USA Title to be Determined
	Frances H. Arnold, California Institute of Technology, USA Enzyme Performance and Evolution Challenges in Support of Biofuels
	Stephen del Cardayre, LS9, Inc., USA Renewable Petroleum ™ Products and Technologies: Low Cost Fuel and Chemical Substitutes
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Ballroom Lobby
11:00 AM-	On Own for Lunch
2:30 - 4:30 PM	Workshop 2: Regional Research Efforts	Ballroom 3
	* Doug Cameron, Piper Jaffray & Co, USA
	Joseph B. Binder, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Chemical Transformation of Lignocellulosic Biomass into Fuels and Chemicals
	Tuan-hua David Ho, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Discovery and Improvement of Enzymes and Microbes for Lignocellulosic Ethanol Production

	James Hartwell, University of Liverpool, UK CAM Plants for Biofuel from Marginal Lands: Towards a Systems Biology Level Understanding of Yield in High-Productivity CAM Species
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Ballroom Lobby
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Visions for Future of Biofuels Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 03/04/2009	Ballroom 3
	* William D. Provine, DuPont Company, USA
	Lee Rybeck Lynd, Dartmouth College, USA Overcoming Obstacles to Large-Scale Production of Cellulosic Biofuels

	Amory B. Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute, USA Biofuels: Some Convenient Truths


7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Ballroom 1 & 2
8:00 - 11:00 PM	Entertainment	Ballroom 1 & 2
Wednesday, April 8
	Departure
*=Session Chair †=Speaker invited, not yet responded.

Keystone Symposia would like to thank the following donors for their generous support of this meeting:

We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this conference from:





BP p.l.c.	Ceres, Inc.
InterTechPira	KWS SAAT AG
The Procter & Gamble Company

We gratefully acknowledge the generous grant for this conference provided by:

National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant No. CBET-0917763

The contents of this program are solely the responsibility of the Conference Organizers and their speakers and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Science Foundation.

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The goal of this meeting is to share a broad perspective defining the critical needs for biofuels and to highlight cutting edge research and development efforts that are defining the next generation of biofuel product and process advances. One major deficiency in the advancement of biofuels is the need to do more integrated and cross-disciplinary research. This conference brings together a broad spectrum of core experts to bridge this gap and help to better enable and advance biofuel research efforts globally.

The Future of Biofuels (D4)