SATURDAY |
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Speaker |
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Harry Gilbert (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
"Understanding the functional significance of highly modular plant cell wall degrading enzymes" |
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Breaking Down the Wall - The Challenge to Meet Future Biofuel and Natural Product Needs |
| Discussion Leaders: William York (Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia) and Jerome Fox (Energy Biosciences Institute, Berkeley, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Alex Yi-Lin Tsai (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Constitutive expression of a fungal glucuronoyl esterase in Arabidopsis reveals altered cell wall composition" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Thu Vuong (University of Toronto, Canada) "A biocatalyst for oxidative modification of cello- and xylo-oligosaccharides" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Shahin Ali (Microbe-Plant-Interaction-Group, University College Dublin, Ireland)
"Exploiting the evolutionary divergence of Fusarium oxysporum for microbial bioprocessing of lignocellulose to bioethanol" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Shishir Chundawat (Michigan State University, GLBRC-MSU, USA)
"Role of cellulose crystal structure on exo- and endo-cellulase synergistic activity" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Structure-Function Relationships of Carbohydrate Active Enzymes |
| Discussion Leaders: Henrik Stålbrand (Lund University, Sweden) and Michael Resch (National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Gregg Beckham (National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
"Computational investigations of Cel7A for understanding and activity improvements" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Cecile Herve (CNRS/UPMC Marine Plants and Biomolecules, France)
"Carbohydrate metabolism in the brown seaweed Ectocarpus siliculosus" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Christopher M. Phillips (University of California, Berkeley Energy Biosciences Institute, USA) "Contribution of oxidative enzymes to the degradation of recalcitrant polysaccharides by filamentous fungi" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Supriya Ratnaparkhe (University of Georgia, USA)
"A carbohydrate-binding module as a tool for characterizing glucuronic acid substitution of xylan in Arabidopsis mutants" |
10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Emerging Technologies-Shaping the Future of CAZYme Research |
| Discussion Leaders: Shi-You Ding (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO) and Jeremy Luterbacher (Cornell University, USA) |
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Jose Miran-Mirabal (Cornell University, USA)
"The study of cellulase-cellulose interactions through fluorescence-based techniques: from macromolecular structures to individual molecules" |
1:50 pm - 1:55 pm | Discussion |
1:55 pm - 2:15 pm | Amy Liu (Danisco)
"Chemical modification of Trichoderma reesei Cel6A improves biomass hydrolysis" |
2:15 pm - 2:20 pm | Discussion |
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm | Ingeborg Stals (University College Ghent, Belgium)
"2D separation and profiling of complex oligosaccharide mixtures" |
2:40 pm - 2:45 pm | Discussion |
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |