Session: Energy from Renewables Using Soil Microbes and Microbial Processes (2008 Joint Annual Meeting (5-9 Oct. 2008))

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Thursday, 9 October 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

George R. Brown Convention Center, General Assembly Theater Hall B

Presiding:

Mary Ann Bruns and Shiping Deng

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:05 AM

The Diversity of Soil Microbes Holds the Key to Advancing Bioenergy Production
Susan Leschine, University of Massachusetts

8:25 AM

Electricity from Cellulose-Fed Microbial Fuel Cells: Comparing a Co-Culture of Clostridium Cellolyticum-Geobacter Sulfurreducens with An Undefined Mixed Culture
Zhiyong Ren, The Pennsylvania State University; Jennine Terrill, The Pennsylvania State University; John M. Regan, The Pennsylvania State University

8:45 AM

Break

9:00 AM

Systems Biology Approaches to Elucidating Electron Transfer Mechanisms and Optimizing Power Output of Microbial Fuel Cells
Kelly P. Nevin, University of Massachusetts; Derek R. Lovley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

9:20 AM

Power Production by Sediment-Hosted Microbial Fuel Cells: The Influence of Substrate Availability and Microbial Ecology
Peter Girguis, Harvard University; Clare E. Reimers, Oregon State University

9:40 AM

9:55 AM

GeoChip: Recent Development, and Its Applications to Bioenergy and Sustainability
Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma

10:15 AM

Overview on Cellulosic BioEnergy Production
Mariam Sticklen, Michigan State University

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