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Monday - Oct 4

Tuesday - Oct 5

Wednesday - Oct 6

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Schedule

The scientific program for C11 will be developed much like C10. Below, please see our near final program.

 

 

Sunday, October 3, 2010
15:00-17:00 Registration

Keynote Presentation: Clostridium phytofermentans: An ethanologen with a voracious appetite for plant biomass
17:00-17:45 / Chair: Pam Contag
17:00-17:45  01 Keynote: Clostridium Phytofermentans: An Ethanologen with a Voracious Appetite for Plant Biomass, Susan Leschine

Cellulases
17:45-18:45 Chair: Pam Contag
17:45-18:15 02 Assembly of Cellulosome Scaffolds in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824, Katalin Kovacs
18:15-18:45     03 Two of the Three Major Cellulases of the Inactive Cellulosome of Clostridium acetobutylicum are Active on Crystalline Cellulose, Philippe Soucaille
19:00-21:00 Reception and Dinner


       

Monday, October 4, 2010

Genomics
9:00-10:40 / Chair: Peter Dürre
09:00-09:30 04  Spanning the Pan-genome of Solventogenic Clostridia: The Genome Sequence of the C. Saccharoperbutylacetonicum Type Strain, Preben Krabben
09:30-10:20 05  Genome Sequence and Comparison of the Cellulosome-producing Mesophilic Organism Clostridium cellulovorans 743B with other Cellulosome-related Clostridial Genomes, Yutaka Tamaru
10:00-10:20 06  A Genome-wide Perspective on the Regulation of Plant Carbohydrate Conversion to Biofuels in Clostridium phytofermentans, Jeffrey Blanchard
10:20-11:00 Break

Biomass Utilization and Conversion
11:00-12:30 / Chair: Nasib  Qureshi

11:00-11:30 07  Development of a Low-cost Biomass Conversion Process the Micro-organism Clostridium phytofermentans, Kevin A. Gray
11:30-12:00 08  Characterization of Commercially Proven Industrial Microbes for Solvent Production, Edward Green
12:00-12:20 09  Pentose Sugar Utilization in Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052, Julie Watson
12:20-13:30 Lunch

Regulation and Sporulation
13:30-15:30 / Chair: Hubert Bahl
13:30-14:00 10  Regulation of Solventogenesis in Clostridium acetobutylicum Revisited, Peter Dürre
14:00-14:30

11  Positive and Negative Control of Sporulation Initiation in Clostridium acetobutylicum by Orphan Kinases, Michael Young

14:30-15:00 12 Inactivation ofóF, óE, óG and SpoIIE in Clostridium acetobutylicum Illuminate Their Roles in Clostridial Differentiation, Bryan P. Tracy
15:00-15:30 13 Identification of Genes Related to Differentiation in Clostridium Acetobutylicum by Genome-wide Analysis of the Spo0A, óF, óE, andóG Regulons, Terry Papoutsakis
15:30-16:00 Break

Bioprocessing I
16:00-17:30 / Chair: Terry Papoutsakis
16:00-16:30 14  Biomass to Butanol Conversion: Recent Technologies & Process Economics, Nasib Qureshi
16:30-17:00

15  Key Factors Determining the Outcome of Industrial-Scale Batch ABE Fermentations using Molasses, David T. Jones

17:00-17:30 16  Gas Fermentation: No Such Thing as Waste, Sean Simpson
18:00-19:00 Dinner

Poster Session
19:00-20:30

 

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Keynote Presentation: New Perspectives in Clostridial Fermentations
08:30-09:15 / Chair: Peter Dürre
08:30-09:15  17  New Perspectives in Clostridial Fermentations, Rolf Thauer
09:15-09:30 Short break

Metabolic Engineering
09:30-12:20 / Chair: Philippe Soucaille
09:30-10:10 18  Invited Talk: Strategies for Microbial Systems Metabolic Engineering, Sang Yup Lee
10:10-10:40 19  Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum using a Novel Approach to Genetic Modification, John Heap
10:40-11:00 20  Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium thermocellum: Advent of a Genetic System, Knockout of Genes Associated with Organic Acid Formation, and Co-culture to Produce High Ethanol Titers from Cellulose, Nicky C. Caiazza
11:00-1120 Short Break
11:20-11:40 21  Engineering synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 to Produce n-Butanol, Ryan E. Hill
11:40-12:00   22  Metabolic Network Reconstruction and Genome-scale Modeling of Butanol-producing Strain Clostridium beijerinckii 8052, Caroline B. Milne
12:00-12:10 Box lunches available at Terrazza Ballroom; return to International Ballroom

Pathogenesis and Antibiotics
12:10-13:20 / Chair: Terry Papoutsakis
12:10-12:50 24  The Molecular Pathogenesis of Clostridium difficile, Nigel Minton
12:50-13:20 25  Closthioamide, the First Antibiotic from Clostridium spp., Launches the Search for Natural Products in the Obligate Anaerobic World, Swantje Behnken

13:20-17:00

 Extended Afternoon Break
Break and Trip to Gaslamp District
17:00-21:00 (via Hilton shuttles)


            
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Bioprocessing II
08:30-09:50 / Chair: Ana López Contreras
08:30-08:50 26  Recovery of Dilute Organics from Fermentation Products using Liquid-liquid Extraction, Robert Schucker
08:50-09:10 27  Membrane-assisted Extractive Butanol Fermentation using 1-dodecanol as Extractant Employing by Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4, Shigemitsu Tanaka
09:10-09:30 29  Butanol Production from White Grape Pomace, Ian Maddox
09:30-10:00 Break

Physiology
10:00-11:40 / Chair: Nigel Minton
10:00-10:30 30  Clostridium thermocellum Ethanol Stress Responses and Tolerance Mechanisms, Steven D. Brown
10:30-10:50  31  Development of Butanol Resistant Strain Derived from Novel Clostridium Species, Anand Ghosalkar
10:50-11:10 32  The Polar Lipids of Clostridium novyi NT. Further Evidence for a Novel Anaerobic Biosynthetic Pathway to Plasmalogens, Howard Goldfine
11:10-11:40 33  Dissecting the Sugar Transport Capabilities of the Clostridia, Wilfred Mitchell

Announcement of Best Poster Winner
11:40-11:50 / Chair: TBD
11:50-13:00 Close of Meeting / Box lunch


          

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