Events
Upcoming Events
From workshops to conferences, the EBI offers many opportunities for growth.
The EBI Seminar Series emanates from the Energy Biosciences Building in Berkeley or the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but are also webcast live for audiences at other EBI partner locations. Click the relevant title to access.
Sunday, 7/14/13 to Wednesday, 7/17/13
EBI Seminars
The EBI Seminar Series presents speakers throughout the year who share their insights and research activities with Institute staff at the Energy Biosciences Building in Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Their expertise draws from both academia and industry, and the seminars are designed to keep EBI researchers abreast of the latest advances in bioenergy science. Some are also webcast live for audiences at other EBI partner locations.
The talks listed can be viewed by clicking on the linked title. Titles not yet linked are either future events or currently being produced and will become active once available.
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2013 Seminars
| February 5, 2013 | Yasuo Yoshikuni | Microalgal Biofuels |
| February 12, 2013 | Jin-Byung Park | Enzymatic Synthesis |
| March 5, 2013 | Dan Nepstad | Climate Change and Land Scarcity |
| March 12, 2013 | Doug Elliott | Biomass Conversion |
| March 19, 2013 | Jennifer Dunn | Life-Cycle Analysis |
| April 9, 2013 | Chris Field | Impacts of Climate Change |
| April 16, 2013 | Susan Hubbard | MEHR Modeling |
| April 22, 2013 | Gerrit Voordouw | Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria |
| April 30, 2013 | Hannah Breetz | Renewable Energy Policy |
| May 7, 2013 | Shelie Miller | Life-Cycle Analysis |
| May 8, 2013 | Hirokazu Kobayashi | Catalysis of Activated Carbons for Hydrolysis of Cellulose |
2012 Seminars
| January 31, 2012 | Tasios Melis UC Berkeley |
Photosynthesis to Fuels |
| February 3, 2012 at UI |
Neil Glynn USDA-ARS |
Developing Saccharum Crops for Sugar and Fiber |
| February 7, 2012 | Pieter Imhof Avatium High-Throughput Technologies |
Developing Catalytic Processes from Renewables Slides for this Seminar |
| February 7, 2012 | Thorsten Hamann Imperial College London |
Plant Cell Wall Integrity Maintenance |
| February 14, 2012 | Thomas Pschorn Andritz Group |
Pretreatment Technology Slides 1 of 3 Slides 2 of 3 Slides 3 of 3 |
| February 21, 2012 | Bruce Kohorn Bowdoin College |
Plant Kinases |
| February 28, 2012 | Jim Wynn MBI Industrial Biotechnology |
Taking the Bio-based Technologies from the Laboratory Bench to Commercial Scale |
| March 6, 2012 | Andy Aden National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
Techno-economic Modeling of Advanced Biofuels Conversion Processes |
| March 13, 2012 | Jeremy Zucker Broad Institute |
Metabolic Model for N.crassa Slides |
| March 16, 2012 at UI |
Michael Axtell Penn State University |
Small RNA Networks in Plants: A Comparative Approach |
| March 23, 2012 | Merja Penttila Technical Research Center, Finland VTT |
Cell Factories For Production Fuels And Chemicals In Biorefineries |
| April 3, 2012 | Julia Fan UC Davis |
Synthetic Biology/Biodiesel |
| April 17, 2012 | Nathan Parker UC Davis |
Hydrogen Fuel From Biomass Slides for this Seminar |
| April 24, 2012 | Carl Douglas University of British Columbia |
Poplar Genetics |
| May 2, 2012 | Ron Milo Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
Rethinking Carbon Fixation |
| May 15, 2012 | Frances Arnold CalTech |
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| October 15, 2012 | Avelino Corma Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain |
Catalysts for Energy |
| October 23, 2012 |
George Huber |
New Catalytic Technologies for Production of Renewable Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass |
| October 30, 2012 |
Adam Kennedy/Howard Kartstein |
Metabolomic Profiling |
| November 6, 2012 |
Randy Cortright |
Aqueous Phase Reforming |
| November 13, 2012 |
Sarah Davis |
Bioenergy Water Issues |
| November 20, 2012 |
Blake Simmons |
Beyond Ethanol |
| November 27, 2012 |
Bin Yang |
Biomass Pretreatment |
| December 4, 2012 |
Maureen McCann |
Plant Biology |
2011 Seminars
| December 6, 2011 | Wenjun Zhang UC Berkeley |
Thio-templated Assembly Line in Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals and Biofuels |
| November 29, 2011 | Rich Mathies UC Berkeley |
Academia and Industry |
| November 4, 2011 at UI |
Jose Gonzalez South Dakota State University |
Exploring the Transcriptome of Prairie Cordgrass |
| November 1, 2011 | David Zilberman UC Berkeley |
How Gas Prices Triggered the Housing Crisis |
| October 25, 2011 | Tina Jeoh UC Davis |
Investigating Heterogeneous Cellulase-Cellulose Interactions at Molecular and Reaction-Scales |
| October 18, 2011 | Tony Kingsbury Dow Chemical Corp. |
Sustainable Chemistry for the Real World |
| October 11, 2011 | Don Natvig University of New Mexico |
Thermophilic Fungi: Evolution, Biology and Applications |
| October 4, 2011 | Chris Savile Codexis |
Protein Evolution: Applications in Pharmaceuticals and Bioenergy |
| September 27, 2011 | Seth DeBolt University of Kentucky |
Chemical Genetic Dissection of Cellulose Synthesis (slides only) |
| September 20, 2011 | Neil Glynn USDA |
Meeting The Challenges of Sugarcane and Energycane Cultivar Development and Production in Florida |
| September 13, 2011 | Bruce Gates University of California, Davis |
Catalytic Upgrading of Lignin-Derived Compounds: Reaction Networks and Evidence of Oxygen Removal |
| September 6, 2011 | Madhu Khanna University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Economic Outlook for Cellulosic Biofuels Under Alternative Policy Scenarios |
| August 24, 2011 | Michael Wang Argonne National Laboratory |
Life-Cycle Analysis of Biofuels with the GREET Model |
| May 3, 2011 | Hector Garcia Martin Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) |
Metabolic Flux Analysis of Biodiesel-Producing E-Coli |
| April 26, 2011 | Joel A. Kreps BP Biofuels Global Technology |
Improving Microorganisms for a Robust, Low-Cost Lignocellulosic Process |
| April 19, 2011 | Ryan Gill University of Colorado |
Genome Surfing |
| March 29, 2011 | Vincent G. H. Eijsink Norwegian University of Life Sciences |
Novel Insights into the Enzymatic Conversion of Recalcitrant Polysaccharides |
| March 15, 2011 | Ned Jackson Center for Fundamental Materials Research Michigan State University Frances Arnold CalTech |
Envisioning a Renewables-Based Chemical and Energy Industry: Strategies and Transformations for the Biomass Refinery |
| March 8, 2011 | John Perkins NCSE Senior Fellow and Professor Emeritus Evergreen State College |
Energy Past-Energy Future: The Eternal Dance of Alternatives |
| March 1, 2011 | Michael Crowley Senior Scientist National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) |
Large Scale Molecular Modeling of Biomass and the Molecules that Torture It |
| February 15, 2011 | Terry Hazen Senior Scientist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
The Gulf Oil Spill: Where Did All The Oil Go? |
| January 25 2011 | Paul Harris Staff Scientist Novozymes, Inc. |
Development of a Cost-Effective Enzymatic Solution to Lignocellulose Degradation |
2010 Seminars
| December 7 2010 | James Liao Professor, Dept. of Metabolic Engineering & Synthetic Biology UCLA |
Biological Synthesis of Higher Alcohols |
| November 30, 2010 | David Wilson Professor, Department of Molecular Biology Cornell University |
Mechanistic Studies of Thermobifida fusca Cellulases |
| November 23, 2010 | Henrik Scheller Biological Engineer and Senior Scientist Joint BioEnergy Institute |
Optimizing Cell Wall Biosynthesis for Biofuel Production |
| November 2 2010 | Scott E. Baker Scientist, Chemical and Biological Process Development Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
Fungi, Genomes, Enzymes and Metabolites |
| October 26 2010 | Stephen Del Cardayre Vice President, Research and Development LS9, Inc. |
One-Step Conversion of Sugar to Drop-In Renewable Fuels and Chemicals |
| October 12 2010 | Daniel A. Farber Sato Sho Professor of Law, Boalt School of Law Chair, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley |
Indirect Land Use Change, Uncertainty, and Biofuels Policy |
| October 5 2010 | Robin D. Rogers Distinguished Research Professor, Robert Ramsey Chair of Chemistry Director, Center for Green Manufacturing, University of Alabama |
Ionic Liquid Solvents for the Grand Challenge in a Biorefinery |
| September 21 2010 | Richard Muller Professor, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley Faculty Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
The Current Status of Climate Change |
| September 14 2010 | Rafael Vazquez-Duhalt Biotechnology Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico |
Enzymatic Transformation of Asphaltenes: Towards Petroleum Biorefining |
| August 31 2010 | Christopher Voigt UC San Francisco |
Programming Bacteria: Rebuilding Complex Functions from the Ground Up |
| August 17 2010 | Justin Stege Verenium Corporation |
Verenium Lignocellulosic Enzyme R&D |
| August 10 2010 | Wolfgang Holderich University of Technology RWTH Aachen, Germany |
The Use of Renewable Feedstocks as a Contribution for Environmental Protection |
| May 2010 | Tom Richard Penn State University |
Windows of Opportunity: Re-imagining Agriculture for Food, Fuel, and the Environment |
| April 2010 | Harvey Blanch UC Berkeley |
Biofuels Production in Perspective |
| April 2010 | Michael Gould Texas A&M University |
Purpose-Built Crops for Biofuels |
| April 2010 | Brent Shanks | Selective Glucose Dehydration using Multifunctional Reaction Systems |
| March 2010 | Dmitry Murzin Åbo Akademi University |
Catalytic Transformations for Production of Biofuels from Woody Biomass |
| March 2010 | Notburga Gierlinger Johannes Kepler Universitat |
Microspectroscopic Insights into Plant Cell Wall Polymer Composition and Orientation |
| March 2010 | Carey King Univ. of Texas - Austin |
Water-Energy Nexus -- Strategic Thinking |
| March 2010 | Luis Fernandez Stanford University |
Sugarcane in the Savannah: Collecting Evidence of a Land Use Change Cascade in the Brazilian Cerrado |
| February 2010 | James Dumesic Univ. of Wisconsin |
Catalytic Conversion of Ligno-Cellulosic Biomass to Liquid Alkenes for Transportation Fuels |
| February 2010 | John Dueber | Improved Flux through Designable Control with Modular, Synthetic Proteins |
| January 2010 | Tom McKone |
2009 Seminars
| December 2009 | John Coates | Application of Microbial Processes to Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery |
| December 2009 | John Holladay | Opportunities for Production of Hydrocarbon Fuels from Biomass |
| October 2009 | Susan Leschine UMass-Amherst |
Clostridium phytofermentans - A Novel Biocatalyst for Consolidated Bioprocessing of Biomass to Ethanol |
| October 2009 | Terry Hazen LBNL |
Life in the Slow Lane: Ecogenomics in Extreme Environments -- Implications for Enhanced Oil Recovery |
| September 2009 | Markus Pauly Michigan State University |
Plant Cell Walls as a Resource for Biofuels: Advances Through Forward Genetic and Deep Sequencing Approaches |
| January 2009 | Luca Zullo Cargill Inc. |
Algae for Biofuel: Promised Land or Mirage? |
| March 2009 | Christer Jansson LBNL |
CyanoDiesel & CellWallFlux |
| April 2009 | Alexis Bell UCB Dept of Chemical Engineering |
Biomass Dissolution and Conversion to Ionic Liquids |