Alma Dietz Actinomycete Lecture and Dinner
Plan to attend this special session with guest speaker Russell Hill from the Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Monday, August 11. 6:30 PM Reception, 7:30 PM Dinner and Lecture. Cost: $70. To participate, complete form.
| Biocatalysis Sessions | |
|---|---|
| New tools for biocatalyst discovery | Convener: S. Lutz, Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA |
| Advances in biocatalyst development | Convener: Lori Giver, Codexis Inc., Redwood City, CA |
| Biocatalysis for oils, glycerol, and oil-related value-added products | Convener: Ching Hou, USDA-ARS-NCAUR, Peoria, IL |
| Biocatalysis for bioenergy | Convener: Huimin Zhao, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL |
| Industrial case studies for biocatalyst applications in pharma | Convener: Andreas Bommarius, Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
| Enzyme function and promiscuity | Convener: Shelly Copley, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| Environmental Microbiology Sessions | |
| Integrated omics in systems biology: The new frontier for environmental biotechnology | Convener: Terry C. Hazen, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA |
| In situ bioremediation of organic compounds in soil and ground water | Convener: Ann Keeley, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, USPEA, Ada, OK |
| Thermophilic bioprocessing of lignocellulosic waste-materials for generation of energy | Convener: Rajesh Sani, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD |
| Biodefense Research and Technology | Convener: Jon J. Calomiris, US Army, USANCA, Springfield, VA |
| Innovations in naturally-derived technologies in cosmetics and personal care | Convener: Smitha Rao, Arch Personal Care Products, L.P, Edison, NJ |
| Extremophiles, Archaea and their applications | Convener: Julie A. Maupin-Furlow, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
| Fermentation and Cell Culture Sessions | |
| Advances in fermentation technology | Convener: Badal Saha, USDA-ARS-NCAUR, Peoria, IL |
| Cell culture and microbial platforms for production of monoclonal antibodies and antibody fragments: Part 1 | Convener: Matthew Croughan, KGI, Claremont, CA |
| Cell culture and microbial platforms for production of monoclonal antibodies and antibody fragments: Part 2 | Convener: Matthew Croughan, KGI, Claremont, CA |
| Valuable products by microbial fermentation | Convener: Vasantha Nagarajan, DuPont, Wilmington, DE |
| Challenges and solutions in large scale industrial fermentation | Convener: Flint Harding, Martek Bioscience Corp., Kingstree, NC |
| Technology transfer | Convener: Michael Meagher, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE |
| Metabolic Engineering Sessions | |
| Engineering next generation of biofuels | Conveners: Stephen B. del Cardayre, LS9, San Carlos, CA and Todd French, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS |
| Genomic advances for industrial microorganisms | |
| Calculating and approaching theoretical yield | |
| Genetic approaches to enhancing therapeutic protein production | |
| Engineering tolerance in industrial bioprocesses or engineering solutions to real industrial bioprocesses challenges | |
| Emerging tools for the metabolic engineer | |
| Natural Products Sessions | |
| Microbes and medicine from the sea | Convener: Bradley Moore, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA |
| Antibiotic regulation and resistance | Conveners: Susan Jensen, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Jerry Wright, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON |
| Biosynthetic enzyme mechanisms and combinational biosynthesis | Convener: Jurgen Rohr, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY |
| Cryptic pathways and symbionts: Unveiling nature's hidden pathways | Convener: Christian Hertweck, Leibniz-Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany |
| Natural products as nutraceuticals: Prospects, biosynthesis and production | Conveners: Ross Zirkle, Martek Bio, Boulder, CO and Adam Burja, Ocean Nutrition Canada Ltd., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia |
| Natural product biosynthesis in three dimensions | Convener: Joseph P. Noel, Howard Hughes Medical Inst. and The Salk Inst. for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA |
| Marcel Faber Roundtable | |
| Bioenergy: Potential resource or dangerous diversion? (PDF) | Organized by: Jennie C. Hunter-Cevera, Univ. of Maryland Biotech. Inst., Rockville, MD and Robert D. Schwartz, Abbott Laboratories (ret.) (previously at Stauffer Chemical Co., Union Carbide Corp., and Exxon Research) |
| US Federation for Culture Collections | |
| Specialized academic culture collections as resources for industrial development (PDF) | Convener: Micah Krichevsky, Bionomics International |
| International Eukaryotic Industrial Microbiology Symposium | |
| International Eukaryotic Industrial Microbiology Symposium | Conveners: Linda Lasure, Lasure and Associates and Scott Baker, PNNL |