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Biofuels (2011C3)

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The Future of Biofuels Organizer(s): William D. Provine, Chris R. Somerville, Doug Cameron and Jay D. Keasling Date: April 04 - 08, 2009 Location: Snowbird Resort, Snowbird, UT, USA Major support for this meeting was contributed by DuPont Company and United Nations Foundation Summary of Meeting: 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. Scholarship Deadline: December 3 2008 Discounted Abstract Deadline: December 3 2008 Abstract Deadline: January 7 2009 Discounted Registration Deadline: February 4 2009 We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this conference from: Wiley-Blackwell We gratefully acknowledge additional in-kind support for this conference from those foregoing speaker expense reimbursements: BP p.l.c. Ceres, Inc. DuPont Company We appreciate the organizations that provide Keystone Symposia with additional support, such as marketing and advertising: Wiley-Blackwell We gratefully acknowledge the generous grant for this conference provided by: National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant No. CBET-0917763 We appreciate the organizations that provide Keystone Symposia with additional support, such as marketing and advertising: Click here to view more of these organizations Special thanks to the following for their support of Keystone Symposia initiatives to increase participation at this meeting by scientists from underrepresented backgrounds: Click here to view more of these organizations

Web Desc

The Future of Biofuels

Organizer(s): William D. Provine, Chris R. Somerville, Doug Cameron and Jay D. Keasling

Date: April 04 - 08, 2009
Location: Snowbird Resort, Snowbird, UT, USA

Major support for this meeting was contributed by DuPont Company and United Nations Foundation

Summary of Meeting:

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.

Scholarship Deadline: December 3 2008

Discounted Abstract Deadline: December 3 2008

Abstract Deadline: January 7 2009

Discounted Registration Deadline: February 4 2009

We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this conference from:

Wiley-Blackwell

We gratefully acknowledge additional in-kind support for this conference from those foregoing speaker expense reimbursements:

BP p.l.c.

Ceres, Inc.

DuPont Company

We appreciate the organizations that provide Keystone Symposia with additional support, such as marketing and advertising:

Wiley-Blackwell

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

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

We appreciate the organizations that provide Keystone Symposia with additional support, such as marketing and advertising:

Click here to view more of these organizations

Special thanks to the following for their support of Keystone Symposia initiatives to increase participation at this meeting by scientists from underrepresented backgrounds:

Click here to view more of these organizations

Program


Saturday, April 04 \| 3:00PM - 7:30PM Registration Room: Ballroom Lobby
Saturday, April 04 \| 6:30PM - 7:30PM Refreshments Room: Ballroom Lobby
Saturday, April 04 \| 7:30PM - 9:30PM Keynote Session: NGO Perspective on Biofuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 1 of 3 * William D. Provine, DuPont Company, USA
Saturday, April 04 \| 7:30PM - 9:30PM Keynote Session: NGO Perspective on Biofuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 2 of 3 Jason Clay, World Wildlife Fund, USA Biofuels—How do we Define Sustainability?
Saturday, April 04 \| 7:30PM - 9:30PM Keynote Session: NGO Perspective on Biofuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 3 of 3 Judy Siegel, Energy and Security Group, USA Biofuels and Developing Countries
Sunday, April 05 \| 7:00AM - 8:00AM Breakfast Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Sunday, April 05 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Biofuels Value Chain - Needs vs. Wants Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 1 of 4 Coleman Jones, USA An Automaker Perspective on the Biofuels Value Chain
Sunday, April 05 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Biofuels Value Chain - Needs vs. Wants Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 2 of 4 Paul A. Willems, Energy Biosciences Institute, USA Talk Title to be Determined
Sunday, April 05 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Biofuels Value Chain - Needs vs. Wants Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 3 of 4 * William D. Provine, DuPont Company, USA Key Challenges for the Development of Advanced Biofuels
Sunday, April 05 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Biofuels Value Chain - Needs vs. Wants Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 4 of 4 Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP, Brazil Bioenergy in Brazil
Sunday, April 05 \| 9:20AM - 9:40AM Coffee Break Room: Ballroom Lobby
Sunday, April 05 \| 11:00AM - 11:00AM On Own for Lunch
Sunday, April 05 \| 11:00AM - 1:00PM Poster Setup Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Sunday, April 05 \| 1:00PM - 10:00PM Poster Viewing Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Sunday, April 05 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Workshop 1: Current Technology Trends Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 1 of 6 * Chris R. Somerville, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Sunday, April 05 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Workshop 1: Current Technology Trends Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 2 of 6 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
Sunday, April 05 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Workshop 1: Current Technology Trends Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 3 of 6 James Zhang, Formation 8, China Miscanthus Variety Development
Sunday, April 05 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Workshop 1: Current Technology Trends Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 4 of 6 Ian Jepson, Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, USA Conversion of Biomass using Plant-Expressed Cellulases
Sunday, April 05 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Workshop 1: Current Technology Trends Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 5 of 6 Ziv Shani, CBD Technologies Ltd., Israel Enhancement of Plant Biomass by Transgenic Expression of Proteins Active in the Cell Wall
Sunday, April 05 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Workshop 1: Current Technology Trends Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 6 of 6 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
Sunday, April 05 \| 4:30PM - 5:00PM Coffee Available Room: Ballroom Lobby
Sunday, April 05 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Next Generation Advanced Biofuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 1 of 4 * Doug Cameron, First Green Partners, USA
Sunday, April 05 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Next Generation Advanced Biofuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 2 of 4 Jay D. Keasling, University of California, Berkeley, USA Engineering Microbial Metabolism for Production of Advanced Biofuels
Sunday, April 05 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Next Generation Advanced Biofuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 3 of 4 James A. Dumesic, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Next Generation Products from Thermochemical Approaches
Sunday, April 05 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Next Generation Advanced Biofuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 4 of 4 Mark Huntley, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Cellana's Renewable Fuel Production from Marine Photosynthetic Microbes
Sunday, April 05 \| 7:00PM - 8:00PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Sunday, April 05 \| 7:30PM - 10:00PM Poster Session 1 Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Monday, April 06 \| 7:00AM - 8:00AM Breakfast Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Monday, April 06 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Biofuel Feedstock Choices and Modifications Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 1 of 5 * Jay D. Keasling, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Monday, April 06 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Biofuel Feedstock Choices and Modifications Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 2 of 5 Chris R. Somerville, University of California, Berkeley, USA Overview of Feedstock Challenges
Monday, April 06 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Biofuel Feedstock Choices and Modifications Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 3 of 5 Richard B. Flavell, Ceres, Inc., USA Dedicated Energy Crops
Monday, April 06 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Biofuel Feedstock Choices and Modifications Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 4 of 5 Stephen P. Long, University of Illinois, USA Thinking Outside the Lunch Box: Perennial Bioenergy Feedstocks Viable on Land Unsuited to Food Crops
Monday, April 06 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Biofuel Feedstock Choices and Modifications Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 5 of 5 John Manners, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Australia From Sugarcane to Energycane
Monday, April 06 \| 9:20AM - 9:40AM Coffee Break Room: Ballroom Lobby
Monday, April 06 \| 11:00AM - 11:00AM On Own for Lunch
Monday, April 06 \| 11:00AM - 1:00PM Poster Setup Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Monday, April 06 \| 1:00PM - 10:00PM Poster Viewing Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Monday, April 06 \| 4:30PM - 5:00PM Coffee Available Room: Ballroom Lobby
Monday, April 06 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Enablement of Cellulosic Fuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 1 of 3 * Doug Cameron, First Green Partners, USA
Monday, April 06 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Enablement of Cellulosic Fuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 2 of 3 Bruce E. Dale, Michigan State University, USA Achieving Economic and Environmental Benefits from Biofuels: The Role of Innovation and Invention
Monday, April 06 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Enablement of Cellulosic Fuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 3 of 3 Tom Richard, Pennsylvania State University, USA Feedstock Infrastructure: Another Gathering Storm
Monday, April 06 \| 7:00PM - 8:00PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Monday, April 06 \| 7:30PM - 10:00PM Poster Session 2 Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Tuesday, April 07 \| 7:00AM - 8:00AM Breakfast Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Tuesday, April 07 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Novel Fermentation Strategies Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 1 of 5 * Chris R. Somerville, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Tuesday, April 07 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Novel Fermentation Strategies Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 2 of 5 Lonnie O. Ingram, University of Florida, USA Engineering Biocatalysts for Renewable Fuel and Chemicals
Tuesday, April 07 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Novel Fermentation Strategies Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 3 of 5 Harrison F. Dillon, Solazyme, Inc., USA Title to be Determined
Tuesday, April 07 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Novel Fermentation Strategies Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 4 of 5 Frances H. Arnold, California Institute of Technology, USA Enzyme Performance and Evolution Challenges in Support of Biofuels
Tuesday, April 07 \| 8:00AM - 11:00AM Novel Fermentation Strategies Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 5 of 5 Stephen B. del Cardayre, LS9, Inc., USA Renewable Petroleum ™ Products and Technologies: Low Cost Fuel and Chemical Substitutes
Tuesday, April 07 \| 9:20AM - 9:40AM Coffee Break Room: Ballroom Lobby
Tuesday, April 07 \| 11:00AM - 11:00AM On Own for Lunch
Tuesday, April 07 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Workshop 2: Regional Research Efforts Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 1 of 4 * Doug Cameron, First Green Partners, USA
Tuesday, April 07 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Workshop 2: Regional Research Efforts Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 2 of 4 Joseph B. Binder, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Chemical Transformation of Lignocellulosic Biomass into Fuels and Chemicals
Tuesday, April 07 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Workshop 2: Regional Research Efforts Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 3 of 4 Tuan-hua David Ho, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Discovery and Improvement of Enzymes and Microbes for Lignocellulosic Ethanol Production
Tuesday, April 07 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Workshop 2: Regional Research Efforts Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 4 of 4 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
Tuesday, April 07 \| 4:30PM - 5:00PM Coffee Available Room: Ballroom Lobby
Tuesday, April 07 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Visions for Future of Biofuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 1 of 3 * William D. Provine, DuPont Company, USA
Tuesday, April 07 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Visions for Future of Biofuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 2 of 3 Lee Rybeck Lynd, Dartmouth College, USA Overcoming Obstacles to Large-Scale Production of Cellulosic Biofuels
Tuesday, April 07 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Visions for Future of Biofuels Room: Ballroom 3 Speaker 3 of 3 Amory B. Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute, USA Biofuels: Some Convenient Truths
Tuesday, April 07 \| 7:00PM - 8:00PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Tuesday, April 07 \| 8:00PM - 11:00PM Entertainment Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Tuesday, April 07 \| 8:00PM - 11:00PM Cash Bar Room: Ballroom 1 & 2
Wednesday, April 08 \| 10:25AM - 10:25AM Departure *Session Chair.