Algal Biofuels Symposium 2010
"The Science to Support Algal Biofuel Commercialization"
Sponsored by Life Technologies™
Friday - April 23, 2010
Frederic de Hoffmann Auditorium
The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, CA
8:00 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:30 – 8:45 Steve Kay, University of California, San Diego
Welcome and introduction to SD-CAB
8:45 – 9:15 Steve Mayfield, University of California, San Diego
Algal Biofuel: Where are we now, where are we going
9:15 – 10:00 Paul Falkowski, Rutgers University
Developing hypothesis-driven algal biofuels research
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15 Christophe Benning, Michigan State University
Identification of factors required for oil biosynthesis in microalgae
11:15 – 12:00 Ursula Goodenough, Washington University in St. Louis
Lipid body biogenesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:15 Susan Golden, University of California, San Diego
Cyanobacteria: the other algae
2:15 – 3:00 Arthur Grossman, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA
Light and the production of biodeisel by algae; pros and cons
3:00 – 3:45 Mike Mendez, Sapphire Energy, Inc.
The engineering of an energy crop
3:45 – 4:15 Coffee Break
4:15 – 5:15 Todd Peterson, Life Technologies
Workshop: Assembly Tools for Synthetic Biology and Algal Biotechnology Opportunities
5:15 – 5:30 Greg Mitchell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
End of session comments
5:30 – 6:30 Hosted Reception
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Registration Deadline: April 9, 2010
