Call
For Papers
The 24th Symposium session chairs invite you to submit abstracts for any of the
seven session topics
(sessions are listed at the bottom of this page for your convenience) included in the technical program.
Note: Current Symposium policy: two papers/posters per presenter. This does
not refer to co-authors.
Abstract
Deadline: December 7, 2001
Author
Notification: January 11, 2002
Manuscripts
(optional) Due: April 28, 2002
Please submit abstracts electronically. Use the electronic abstract submission form available at
www.ct.ornl.gov/symposium/abstract_submission.htm. If you cannot submit abstracts electronically, please submit a one-page,
150- to 200-word hard copy of your abstract and include the following information:
Title
Author(s), with speaker underlined
Corresponding Author
Affiliation of all authors
Address to send correspondence
Phone, Fax, E-mail address
Presentation Preference:
Session Number
Oral Presentation or Poster Session
Submit hard-copy abstracts to:
Nancy Watlington, Conference Assistant
24th Symposium on Biotechnology
for Fuels & Chemicals
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6226,
or
You may send your abstract as an electronic email
attachment to watlingtonnw@ornl.gov. Please
include all information listed above. If you have any questions, please
call us at (865) 241-3810 or send us an
email.
This year, technical topics
include:
Session 1. Feedstock Production, Genetic Modification and
Processing
Topics will encompass plant genetic modification and
breeding, as well as production issues (farming, silviculture, harvesting,
densification, and storage) and some initial processing steps (ensilage and
pretreatment).
Chairs: TBA
Session 2. Microbial Catalysis and Metabolic Engineering
New and improved microorganisms will be needed to
produce fuels and chemicals. Presentations on the genetics, metabolism,
biochemistry and development of these biocatalysts are sought.
Chairs: TBA
Session 3. Bioprocessing Research
This session will cover advances in improved
development of the reactor where critical conversions into fuels or chemicals
occur. These conversions and studies include fermentors, hydrolysis,
modeling, or other novel configurations via the combination of engineering with
microbiology, biochemistry, and chemistry.
Chairs: TBA
Session 4. Genetics and Genomics in Bioenergy and Bioproducts
A round table discussion on the application of massive gene
expression methods and genomics in metabolics and gene discovery, as well as other related
topics such as the implications of the use of GMOs in large-scale fermentation
processes.
Chairs: TBA
Session 5. Development of Industrial Biobased Products
Speakers will cover recent movement from lab to
commercial in the production of chemicals and other value-added bioproducts from
biological rather than petrochemical routes. This includes process
integration, commercialization, demonstration, economics, and lifecycle studies
for the "biorefinery."
Chairs: TBA
Session 6. Enzyme Production and Conversions Papers
will focus on advances in the direct use of enzymes to carry out conversions of
biomass into sugars by cellulases as well as direct transformation of chemicals into
value-added chemicals by a variety of other enzymes. Papers will also give
advances in cost effective production and genetic improvement of these enzymes.
Chairs: TBA
Session
7. Downstream Processing of Bioproducts
This session will emphasize either subsequent conversion of the primary
biobased product into other value-added products or separation of these
chemicals to the desired purity.
Chairs: TBA
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