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Session 1B: Enzyme Catalysis and Engineering

Sunday, May 1, 2005, 1:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Chair: Joel Cherry, Novozymes, Inc.
Co-Chair: Kevin Gray, Diversa Corp.

1:00 p.m.

Welcoming Remarks—Symposium Chair

1:15 p.m.

Opening Remarks—Session Chair/Co-Chair

1:25 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1B-01. Chemical Complementation: A Potentially General Method of Engineering Enzymes through Genetic Selection, (MS Word 24 KB) Bahareh Azizi, Lauren J. Schwimmer, and Donald F. Doyle, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

1:50 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1B-02. Effect of Cellulase Supplementation on Cookline Operation in A Dry Mill Ethanol Plant, (MS Word 20 KB) Bradley A. Saville and Vince Yacyshyn, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2:15 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1B-03. Improving Cellulose Hydrolysis with New Cellulase Compositions, (MS Word 28 KB) Elena Vlasenko and Joel Cherry, Novozymes, Inc., Davis, CA

2:40 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1B-04. Production of Granular Starch Hydrolyzing Enzymes for Low Energy Grain Ethanol Production, (MS Word 31 KB) Nigel Dunn-Coleman, Suzanne Lantz, Michael Pepsin, Tim Dodge, Bradley Kelemen, Jayarama K. Shetty, Genencor International, Inc., Palo Alto, CA; O. J. Lantero, James Miers and Craig Pilgrim, Genencor International, Inc., Beloit, WI

3:05 p.m.

Break

3:35 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1B-05. A High Throughput Micro-Assay to Evaluate Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Substrates from Agricultural and Forest Residues, (MS Word 28 KB) Alex Berlin, Vera Maximenko, Renata Bura, Neil Gilkes, Douglas Kilburn, Jack Saddler, Biotechnology and Biomaterials Group, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

4:00 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1B-06. Development Of Enzyme Cocktails for Feedstock Conversion to Fermentable Sugars, (MS Word 25 KB) Lishan Zhao, Kelvin Wong, Myoung Kim, Lori Preston, Flash Bartnek, Yoko Philips, Chris Lyon, Uvini Gunawardena, Charles Tweedy, Olen Yoder, Mike Lafferty, Kevin Gray, Diversa Corporation, San Diego, CA

4:25 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1B-07. Poly(Ethylene Glycol) as Additive for Increased Conversion of Lignocellulose, (MS Word 30 KB) Johan Börjesson, Folke Tjerneld, Department of Biochemistry, Lund University Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund, Sweden

4:50 p.m.

Closing Remarks—Session Chair/Co-Chair

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