AGROWednesday, March 28, 2007

1:30 PM-5:10 PM McCormick Place South -- Room S103D, Level 1, Oral
Agricultural Biomass, Biobased Products, and Biofuels
Process Characterization
Organizers:James N. Seiber
Cathleen J. Hapeman
Joseph H. Massey
Organizer, Presiding:Justin R. Barone
1:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:35 PMProduct identification from the catalytic cracking of cis-9-octadecenoic acid
Tracy J. Benson, Rafael Hernandez, W. Todd French, Mark G. White, Earl G. Alley, William E. Holmes
2:00 PMParthenium argentatum as a source of biobased products
Colleen M. McMahan, Katrina Cornish, Maureen Whalen
2:25 PMCastor oil: Biosynthesis and uses
Thomas A. McKeon, Xiaohua He, Grace Q. Chen, Jiann-Tsyh Lin
2:50 PMStructure-function relationships of a catalytically efficient β-D-xylosidase
Douglas B. Jordan
3:15 PMIntermission
3:30 PMEnzymatic dewatering of distillers grains
Ana B. Henriques, David B. Johnston, Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan
3:55 PMBiobased industrial lubricants
Sevim Z. Erhan, Brajendra K. Sharma
4:20 PMRecent advances in bioconversion of agricultural biomass to butanol by fermentation: Employing potential of available renewable resources to produce a superior biofuel
Nasib Qureshi, Badal C. Saha, Xin-Liang Li, Stephen R. Hughes, Michael A. Cotta
4:45 PMSynthesis of long-chain unsaturated-α,ω- dicarboxylic acids from renewable materials via olefin metathesis
Helen L. Ngo, Thomas A. Foglia

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