Agenda
8:00
AM
Refreshments
8:30
AM
Welcoming
and Introductory Remarks
Fred Heineken, Chair, Metabolic Engineering Working Group
| Presentation |
Maryanna Henkart, Chair, Biotechnology Research Working Group
8:45
AM
Welcome
Mary Clutter, Chair, Subcommittee on Biotechnology
9:00
AM
Industrial
Chemicals: Metabolic
Engineering and Chemical Manufacture
| Abstract
| Presentation
| John Frost, Michigan
State University
Introduction by
Harold Bright, DOD
| Presentation
|
9:45
AM
Plastics/Polymers:
Metabolic
Engineering of Knives, Forks and Spoons
| Abstract
| Presentation
| Oliver Peoples,
Metabolix, Inc.
Introduction
by Travis Gallagher, NIST
10:30
AM
Break
11:00
AM
Pharmaceuticals/Nutraceuticals: Plant Metabolic Engineering for
Pharmaceutical Production
| Abstract
| Presentation
| Susan Roberts,
University of
Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction by Warren Jones, NIH
11:45
AM
Food/Seed Oils: Manipulation
of Lipid
Metabolism in Plants to Produce Healthier Food Oils
| Abstract
| Presentation
|
Tony
Kinney, DuPont
Introduction by David Nes, NSF
12:30
PM
Lunch (to
be provided)
1:30
PM
Fuels: Metabolic Engineering of Yeasts for Ethanol Production from
Biorefinery Hydrolysates | Abstract
| Presentation
|
Tom
Jeffries, USDA
Introduction by Valerie Reed, DOE
2:15
PM
Panel
Session (Panelists are the Speakers and Invited Discussants) | Summary |
Chair: Mark Segal
(EPA)
Discussants: Greg
Stephanopoulos, MIT
| Presentation
|
and Brent
Erickson
| Presentation
| Biotechnology
Industry Organization
3:45
PM
Wrap-up
and Closing Remarks - Fred Heineken (NSF)
4:15
PM
Adjournment
