Biomass analysis and pre-treatment
| Compression Characteristics of Agricultural Biomass Subject to Pretreatment | |
| Phani Adapa, Lope Tabil, Greg Schoenau |
| Fractionation/deconstruction of lignocellulose from wheat, barley, triticale, oat and flax straw: An overview | |
| Giuseppe Mazza |
| TOLERANCE OF ETHIOPIAN MUSTARD TO SODIUM SULPHATE SALINITY | |
| Xiang Li |
| Analysis of structural carbohydrates, lignins, and micro-components of straw and shives by wet chemistry methods and FT-IR | |
| Giuseppe (Joe) Mazza |
| LIGNIN FROM FLAX SHIVES: EXTRACTION, PURIFICATION & CHARACTERIZATION | |
| Anvar Buranov, Kelly Ross, Giuseppe Mazza |
| Extraction of Lignin from Triticale, Wheat and Flax Straw by Ionic Liquids | |
| Dongbao Fu, Giuseppe Mazza |
| Near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy prediction of cell wall degradability in alfalfa stems | |
| Marc-Olivier Duceppe, Annick Bertrand, Yves Castonguay, Réal Michaud, Marie-Pier Dubé |
| Genetic diversity for fermentable carbohydrates production in alfalfa | |
| Marc-Olivier Duceppe, Annick Bertrand, Yves Castonguay, Réal Michaud, Marie-Pier Dubé |
| Fractionation of Triticale Straw with Pressurized Low Polarity Water | |
| Carl Pronyk, Guiseppe Mazza |
| Pelleting of Agricultural Biomass with and without Pretreatment | |
| Phani Adapa, Lope Tabil, Greg Schoenau, Anthony Opoku |
| Glucose yields after pretreatment of lignocellulosic straws | |
| Roomana Aafaqi, Ginette Turcotte |
| Material and Operating Variables Affecting the Physical Quality of Biomass Briquettes | |
| Yuqiu Song, Jaya Shankar Tumuluru, Kingsley Iroba, Lope G Tabil, Mingxin Jin, Venkatesh Meda |
| Enhancing Compaction Characteristics of Barley Straw by Microwave/Chemical Pretreatment | |
| Mahdi Kashaninejad, Batool Kashaninejad, Lope G Tabil |
| An integrated strategy to produce ethanol from alfalfa stems | |
| Annick Bertrand, Yves Castonguay, Réal Michaud, Serge Laberge |
| SRAP polymorphisms associated to increased nonstructural carbohydrates in alfalfaSRAP polymorphisms associated to increased nonstructural carbohydrates in alfalfa | |
| Marie-Pier Dubé, Caroline Chouinard-Michaud, Caroline Chouinard-Michaud, Yves Castonguay, Yves Castonguay, Réal Michaud, Réal Michaud, Annick Bertrand, Annick Bertrand |
| SRAP polymorphisms associated to cell wall degradability in alfalfa | |
| Marie-Pier Dubé, Marc-Olivier Duceppe, Yves Castonguay, Réal Michaud, Annick Bertrand |
| Pretreatment of Black Spruce using Steam Explosion and Diluted Sulfuric Acid | |
| Haixia Fang, James Deng, Tony Zhang |
| The evaluation of newly developed alfalfa varieties for adaptability under fall and spring waterlogging. | |
| Yousef Papadopoulos, Kathleen Glover, Margaret Gruber, Sherry Fillmore, Bill Thomas |
| Cellulosic Biofuel Crop Production and Nutrient Cycling: Activities and some preliminary results | |
| Shabtai Yvonne Bittman, Margaret Gruber |
| Biomass Enhancement Research in the Canadian Cellulosic Biofuel Network | |
| Margaret Yvonne Gruber |
| Biomass Production Research in the Canadian Cellulosic Biofuel Network | |
| Margaret Yvonne Gruber |
| Physico-Chemical Pre-treatment and Composition of Biomass in the Canadian Cellulosic Biofuel Network | |
| Margaret Yvonne Gruber |
Enzymes
| Biochemical and Functional Characterization of Four Fungal Xylanases | |
| Rebecca Sydenham, Stephanie Little, Christopher Sitaras, Yun Zheng, Adrian Tsang, Justin Powlowski, Reginald Storms |
| Construction and characterization of an Aspergillus niger strain with the prtT to aglU region of chromosome VI deleted | |
| Yun Zheng, Humberto Tambor, Minghui Yang, Sophia Ushinsky, Justin Powlowski, Reginald Storms |
| Towards Engineering a Consolidated Bioprocessing Competent Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Functional Expression of Endoglucanases | |
| Lina Mougharbel, Humberto Tambor, Reginald Storms |
| Curation of Fungal Glycoside Hydrolase Genes and the Development of mycoCLAP, a Searchable Database for Characterized Lignocellulose-Active Proteins | |
| Caitlin Murphy, Min Wu, Justin Powlowski, Greg Butler, Adrian Tsang |
| Theme 2 - Enzyme Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Substrates | |
| Tim McAllister, Adrian Tsang, Gregory Butler, Tim Dumonceaux, Justin Powlowski, Wing Sung |
| An effective method for total RNA isolation from ruminal contents | |
| Pan Wang, MENG QI, Brent Selinger, Tim McAllister, Robert Forster |
| Isolation and characterization of carbohydrate esterases from the rumen anaerobic fungus Anaeromyces mucronatus | |
| MENG QI, Pan Wang, Jay Yanke, Robert Forster, Brent Selinger, Tim McAllister |
| Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Biomasses | |
| Trent Yang, Fang Huang, Steve Legault, Mark Wood, Wing Sung |
| Capture and Identification of Secreted Aspergillus niger Proteins Using Magnetic Cellulose Beads and Mass Spectrometry | |
| Yu Lei, Adrian Tsang, Justin Powlowski |
| Transcriptome of Sporotrichum thermophile: Effects of Carbon Source | |
| NADEEZA ISHMAEL, Ian Reid, Marie-Claude Moisan, Corinne Darmond, Greg Butler, Justin Powlowski, Adrian Tsang |
| Cloning and identification of novel hydrolase genes from a metagenomic library of dairy cow rumen microflora and characterization of the expressed cellulases | |
| Xia Gong, Meng Qi, Robert Forster, Tim McAllister, Ronald Teather |
| The Cubique Portal | |
| Marek Krajewski, Stuart Thiel, David Reisch, Greg Butler, Patrice Chalin, Adam Cimino, Brendan Asselstine |
| Characterization of Fungal Cellulases for Biomass Conversion Improvement. | |
| Humberto Tambor, Reg Storms |
| Using Semantic MediaWiki for communication in large-scale scientific projects | |
| Wendy Findlay, David Mason, Greg Butler |
| The EnzymeTracker, a platform for tracking cloning and expression of fungal enzymes | |
| Thomas Triplet, Justin Powlowski, Adrian Tsang, Gregory Butler |
| Identification of extracellular fungal enzymes via de novo assembly of short-read transcript sequence data | |
| Nicholas O'Toole, Ian Reid, Gregory Butler, Adrian Tsang |
| Medium-Throughput Cloning, Expression and Enzymatic Screening of Aspergillus niger Extracellular Proteins Involved in Cellulosic Degradation in two Aspergillus niger Expression Systems. | |
| Annie Bellemare, Noutcheka St-Félix, Amrita Doongoor, David Taylor, Sandra Brouillard, Carolina Cantu, Tieling Zhang, Greg Butler, Justin Powlowski, Adrian Tsang |
Designer Cell Walls
| Transcriptomic analysis of Alfalfa developing stems | |
| Mirella Aoun, Réjean Desgagnés, Serge Laberge |
| 454 Sequencing Reveal the Transcriptional Activities of Cell Wall Related Genes in Triticale | |
| Yong Xu, Yong Xu, Michele Frick, Michele Frick, Dallas Thomas, Dallas Thomas, André Laroche |
| Bioinformatic tools for identifying point mutations and exploring gene expression data generated by ABIP’s CBioN | |
| Robert Breit, Ryan Austin, Dario Bonetta, David Guttmann, Nicholas Provart |
| Next-generation cloning of EMS induced mutations | |
| Ryan S Austin, Danielle Vidaurre, George Stamatiou, Dario Bonetta, Pauline W Wang, Jianfeng Zhang, Pauline Fung, Yunchen Gong, Peter McCourt, David S Guttman |
| Toward a transcriptomic reference assembly for Alfalfa | |
| Ryan S Austin, Le Yang, Jianfeng Zhang, Pauline Fung, Yunchen Gong, Pauline W Wang, Serge LaBerge, David S Guttman, Peter McCourt |
| Grass genomes guide prediction of wheat full length cDNA for transcriptome sequencing analysis | |
| Yong Xu, Michele Frick, Dallas Thomas, André Laroche |
| Elucidating Cell Wall Signalling by Microarray Analysis | |
| Wolfgang Moeder, Zahra Mortaji, Dario Bonetta |
| RNA-Seq and de novo assembly of the hemp stem transcriptome | |
| Yunchen Gong, JianFeng Zhang, Le Yang, Ryan Austin, Pauline Fung, Pauline Wang, Michael Deyholos, Peter McCourt, David Guttman |
| Theme 3 - Cell wall biosynthesis. | |
| Dario Bonetta |
Plant Expression of Enzymes
| Modified Corn | |
| Graham Thurston, Keith Hubbard, John Simmonds |
| Expression of FaeB Genes in Alfalfa | |
| Katarzyna Kowalczys, Shuyou Han, Marysia Latoszek-Green, Daniel Brown |
| Can Plants Replace Plants? Production of Alcohol Fuel Enzymes in Transgenic Plants | |
| Hesham Oraby, David Gagné, Serge Laberge |
| Increasing cell wall degrading enzymes accumulation by subcellular localization and ELP/HFBI fusions | |
| Andrew Conley, Ruoyu Yan, Rima Menassa |
| ENHANCING PRODUCTION OF CELL WALL DEGRADING ENZYMES IN TOBACCO | |
| Eridan Pereira, Igor Kolotilin, Andrew Conley, Rima Menassa |
| Expression of Feruloyl Esterase B Gene in Alfalfa | |
| Shuyou Han, Katarzyna Kowalczys, Marysia Latoszek-Green, Daniel Brown |
| TOBACCO CHLOROPLAST GENOME ENGINEERING - ASSESSMENT OF DIFFERENT INTEGRATION SITES FOR OPERON AND SINGLE GENE TRANSFORMATION FOR HIGH-LEVEL EXPRESSION OF CELLULOLYTIC ENZYMES | |
| Igor Kolotilin, Eridan Pereira, Rima Menassa |
| Expression of biomass-degrading enzymes in triticale: an alternative system for improving cellulosic biofuel extraction | |
| Ana Badea, Bo-Hyun Byun, Kris Marshall, Michele Frick, Serge Laberge, John Simmonds, Graham Thurston, Adrian Tsang, Meng Qi, Tim McAllister, François Eudes, André Laroche |
Fermentation Efficiency
| Quantitative proteomics analyses of a mutant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain with enhanced ethanol production from spent sulfite liquor | |
| Heng Jiang, Dominic J. Pinel, Vincent J. J. Martin |
| The introduction of the exogenous gene XYLA improves xylose utilization in S. cerevisiae. | |
| Jane Usher, Anne Johnston, Linda Harris, Krisitn Baetz |
| Development of a consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) strain of Saccharomyces cerevisae by expressing heterologous cellulases | |
| Caroline Wilde, Nancy Bawa, Vincent Martin |
| LIGNOCELLULOSIC ETHANOL PRODUCTION: Engineering substrate simultaneous utilization and characterization of inhibitor tolerance | |
| Pratish Gawand, Victor Balderas, Patrick Hyland, Radhakrishnan Mahadevan |
| Engineering tolerance to spent sulfite liquor (SSL) by genome shuffling Saccharomyces cerevisiae leads to increased ethanologenic capacity | |
| Dominic Pinel, Paramjit Bajwa, Hung Lee, Vincent J. J. Martin |
| Analysis of -omics data: Application to the transcriptome of xylose-utilizing yeast | |
| Corey Yanofsky, Jane Usher, Kristin Baetz, Zahra Montazeri, Anne Johnston, Linda Harris, Mohsen Mohammadi, Steve Gleddie, David Bickel |
Bioproduct, Economic, Environmental, Ethical, Legal and Social issues
| Pretreatment and Co-Products Framework | |
| Curtis Sawatzky, Gary Johnson, Edmund Mupondwa |
| Economically optimal size of a cellulosic biorefinery: What are the metrics? | |
| Edmund Mupondwa, Satya Panigrahi, Kishari SooriyaArachchilage, Anand Tripathy |
| Cellulosic Biorefinery Co-Products and Pretreatment Framework | |
| Curtis Sawatsky, Edmund Mupondwa, Gary Johnson |
| Life cycle analysis of alfalfa for ethanol production | |
| Kishari Indunil Sooriya Arachchilage, Satya Panigrahi, Edmund Mupondwa |
Other Networks
| Biorefining Conversions Network | |
| Kelly Maher, David Bressler |
| Comparative Bioinformatics of Cellulolytic Bacteria for Biofuel Production | |
| David Levin |