Wednesday, March 10
15:00-17:00 CBioN Steering Committee Meeting (Alta Vista Salon)
17:00-19:00 Registration (Victoria Ballroom Foyer)
Thursday, March 11: What’s coming up!
7:00-12:00 Registration (Victoria Ballroom Foyer)
7:00-8:30 Breakfast (North Victoria Ballroom)
8:30-9:00 Opening Remarks/Introductions (Serge Laberge, Margaret Gruber & Adrian Tsang) (North Victoria Ballroom)
- Introduction of Scientific Advisory Committee
9:00-12:00 Plenary: Technological Trends (Serge Laberge, moderator) (North Victoria Ballroom)
9:00-9:20 Production Challenges and Progresses in Developing Cost and Energy-Effective Pretreatments for Cellulosic Ethanol
Xuejun Pan, Dept. Biol. Syst. Engineering, University of Wisconsin
9:20-9:40 Enzymatic depolymerization of lignocellulose: Using the lessons of nature to access a difficult substrate
Tim Dumonceaux, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon
9:40-10:00 Cell-Wall Biosynthesis and Modification
Michael Hahn, Complex Carbohydrate Research Centre, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
10:00-10:20 Modifying Corn Genome to Meet Biofuels Agenda
Sang H. Park, Dept. Crop & Soil Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing
10:20-10:40 Refreshments Break (Victoria Ballroom Foyer)
10:40-11:00 Issues and science behind yeast fermentation on pentose/hexose sugars
Jan-Maarten Geertman, Iogen Corporation, Ottawa, ON
11:00-11:30 Co-products
Xiao Zhang, Center for Bioproducts and Bioenergy, Washington State University, TriCity, WA
11:30-12:00 Life Cycle Perspectives for a Sustainable Cellulosic Biofuel Industry
Goretty Dias, Dept. Geography/Engineering, U. of Guelph
12:00-:13:00 Networking Lunch (seating per CBioN section) (Merlot, 28th floor)
13:00-14:30 Plenary: Industrial Perspective (Steve Gleddie, moderator) (North Victoria Ballroom)
13:00-13:20 Biomass Engineering Update
Jim Henry, Case New Holland, Saskatoon, SK
13:20-13:50 New Trends in Biomass Enhancement in Plants
Patrick Doyle, Syngenta Canada, Guelph ON
13:50-14:10 Cellulosic Ethanol Overview From An Industrial Perspective
Frank Dottori, Cellulosic Ethanol Division, Greenfield Ethanol, ON
14:10-14:30 Commercialization Challenges and Process Economics
Ziyad Rahme, Next Generation Commercialization Program, Iogen Corporation, Ottawa ON
14:30-14:45 Refreshment Break (Victoria Ballroom Foyer)
14:45-16:15 CBioN Section Meetings - Part 1 (Each section prepares list on issues for other sections or CBioN membership)
Section #1 (Biomass and Physico-Chemical): North Victoria Ballroom
Section #2 (Enzymes): Alta Vista Salon
Section #3 (Cell-wall): York Salon (Lower Level)
Section #4 (Genetic Engineering): Capital-Carleton Salon
Section #5 (Fermentation): North Victoria Gallery
Section #6 (Economic/Environment Analysis): North Victoria Gallery
16:15-18:15 Interactive Poster Session #1 – Odd-numbered posters (South Victoria Ballroom) (Section Leaders or Deputy Section Leaders as moderators)
19:00-21:00 Networking Dinner (North Victoria Ballroom)
Friday, March 12: Other Networks!
7:00-8:30 Registration (Victoria Ballroom Foyer)
7:00-8:15 Breakfast (North Victoria Ballroom)
8:15-8:30 Announcements (Margie Gruber) (North Victoria Ballroom)
8:30-12:00 Bioinformatics Integration Roundtable (Adrian Tsang, moderator) – (Capital Carleton Salon)
8:30-12:00 Other National Networks (Margie Gruber, moderator) – (North Victoria Ballroom)
8:30-8:50 The NRC-NRCan-AAFC National Bioproducts Program
John Schmidt, FPInnovations – Paprican Division, Pointe Claire, QC
8:50-9:10 A description of the NSERC Strategic Bioconversion network
Jack Saddler, Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
9:10-9:30 ABIP Canadian Triticale Biorefinery Initiative (CTBI)
Patricia McAllister, Network Manager, Ottawa. ON
9:30-9:50 Feed Opportunities from the Biofuels Industry, FOBI - An Overview
Tim McAllister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB
9:50-10:10 ABIP Agricultural Biorefinery Innovation Network (ABIN)
Franco Berruti, University of Western Ontario, London, ON
10:10-10:30 Refreshment Break (Ballroom Foyer)
10:30-11:00 U.S. Department of Energy Biomass Program
Shahabaddine Sokhansanj, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
11:00-11:20 Deconstructing cell walls: some observations from Europe
Simon McQueen-Mason, University of York, United Kingdom
11:20-12:00 Overview of other related projects (5 min each) –
Adrian Tsang, Genozymes for Bioproducts and Bioprocesses Development
David Levin, Microbial Genomics for Biofuels
Kelly Maher, Biorefining Conversions Network
Amar Mohanty – ORF project “Co-products from Second Generation Biofuels”
CeProBio – Brazilian Network
12:00-13:00 Networking Lunch (seating across CBioN sections) (Merlot, 28th floor)
13:00-14:30 CBioN Section Meetings - Part 2
Section #1 (Biomass and Physico-Chemical): North Ballroom
Section #2 (Enzymes): Alta Vista Salon
Section #3 (Cell-wall): York Salon (Lower Level)
Section #4 (Genetic Engineering): Capital-Carleton Salon
Section #5 (Fermentation): North Gallery
Section #6 (Economic/Environment Analysis): North Gallery
14:30-16:30 Interactive Poster Session #2 – Even-numbered posters (South Victoria Ballroom) (Section leaders or sub-leaders as moderators)
16:30-18:00 General Network Issues; Poster Prizes; Closing Remarks (Dan Brown and Serge Laberge) (North Victoria Ballroom)
Saturday, March 13: Brazil-Canada Partnership Development Activity on Cellulosic Biofuels Technologies – (invitation only)