CELLTuesday, March 27, 2007

8:25 AM-12:00 PM McCormick Place Lakeside -- Room E267, Level 2, Oral
Functionalization of Renewable Materials
Enzymatic Modifications
Organizers:Gisela Buschle-Diller
George M Guebitz
Artur Cavaco-Paulo
8:25 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:30 AMLearning lessons from nature for fibre bioprocessing and bioengineering
Artur Cavaco-Paulo
9:00 AMDesigner protein-based performance materials
William A. Cuevas, Karl Sanford, Katherine D. Collier, Mai Du, Nicole Chow, Manoj Kumar
9:30 AMIsomerases for functional modification of fibrous polymers
Tzanko Tzanov, Florentina-Daniela Munteanu, Artur Cavaco-Paulo
10:00 AMEffect of various pre-treatments on the accessibility of target amino acids in wool fibre proteins to transglutaminase and tyrosinase
Joao Cortez, C Kulik, John Ellis, Giuliano Freddi, Raija Lantto, Elisabeth Heine
10:30 AMEnzyme-mediated crosslinking of wool
Jeanette M. Cardamone
11:00 AMBiocatalytic modification of naturally occurring Iron porphyrin as a renewable catalyst
Subhalakshmi Nagarajan, Rahul Tyagi, Ramaswamy Nagarajan, Jayant Kumar, Arthur C. Watterson, Ferdinando Bruno, Lynne A. Samuelson
11:30 AMEnzymatic modification of polymers
Sonja Heumann, Anita Eberl, Marc Schroeder, Artur Cavaco-Paulo, George M. Guebitz

Functionalization of Renewable Materials -- Next Session

Symposium Grid -- Division of Cellulose & Renewable Materials -- Session Listing

Symposium Grid -- Materials -- Session Listing

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007