May 18 Thursday evening:
6:00 pm
Reception, Hilton Plaza Hotel Travis Room A
Evening Meal, Travis Room B
Keynote
Presentation – "Spores of Clostridium" J. R.
Walker, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Sponsored by the Dr. Thomas J. and Jane A.
Vanzant Lectureship
May 19 Friday morning:
Transport from hotel to Duncan Hall, Rice
University via hotel van, the vans are scheduled
to leave at the times below.
8:00 am 8:15 am 8:30 am 8:45 am
Light breakfast items available in central hall
at 8:15 am
9:00 am Opening remarks G. Bennett, Rice
University, USA
9:10 am Clostridial enzymes and pathways E.
T Papoutsakis, Northwestern University,
USA Session chair
9:10 am “Oxidative stress response in
Clostridium acetobutylicum: the rubrerythrin-like
general stress protein Hsp21 and
desulfoferrodoxin, a superoxide-reductase” H.
Bahl, Universität Rostok, Germany
9:35 am “The shift from acid to solvent
formation in Clostridium acetobutylicum:
regulation of phosphate dependent genes, proteome
analysis, granulose synthesis, and
sporulation” R. Fischer, Universität Rostok,
Germany
10:00 am “Heterologous expression of algal
Fe-only hydrogenase in Clostridium acetobutylicum
ATCC824” G. von Abendroth, Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, Germany
10:25 am Break – light refreshments in the
central hall
10:50 am Clostridial pathways and
regulation H. Blaschek, University of Illinois,
USA Session chair
10:50 am “What's new with sugar uptake?” W.
Mitchell, Heriot-Watt University, UK
11:10 am “Regulation of PTS gene systems in
clostridia” M Tangney, Napier University,
UK
11:30 am “Reiteration of gene clusters in
Clostridium beijerinckii” J. S. Chen, Virginia
Tech, USA
11:50 am “Genome-scale transcriptional analysis
in Clostridium acetobutylicum” E. T.
Papoutsakis, Northwestern University, USA
May 19 Friday afternoon: Group
photograph
12:30 pm Lunch in Keck Hall
2:10 pm Depart to NASA
3:00 pm Tour
of NASA by NASA staff
5:00 pm Appetizers
and Dinner at the Flying Dutchman, Kemah, TX
Return to hotel
May 20 Saturday morning: Transport from hotel
to Duncan Hall, Rice University via hotel van, the
vans are scheduled to leave at the times below.
8:00 am 8:15 am 8:30 am 8:45
am
Light breakfast items available in central hall
at 8:15 am
9:00 am Clostridial genetics J. S. Chen,
Virginia Tech, USA Session chair
9:00 am “Research on genetic technology in
Clostridium acetobutylicum” L. Sullivan, Rice
University, USA
9:25 am “Gene knock-out in Clostridium” N.
Minton, University of Nottingham, UK
9:50 am “Phylogenetic analysis of Clostridium
botulinum by Multi Locus Sequence Typing” E.
Johnson, University of Wisconsin, USA
10:15 am Break – light refreshments in the
central hall
10:40 am Clostridial genetics and
regulation W. Mitchell, Heriot-Watt University,
UK Session chair
10:40 am “Clostridium beijerinckii 8052 DNA
sequence analysis and use of distillers grains as
a potential substrate for ABE production. ” H.
Blaschek, University of Illinois, USA
11:05 am “Characterization of prophage elements
in the chromosomes of Clostridium beijerinckii
strains that encode inducible defective phage-like
killer particles” D. T. Jones, University of
Otago, New Zealand
11:30 am Lunch in Duncan Hall
Duncan
Hall May 20 Saturday afternoon:
1:00 pm
Clostridial fermentations N. Qureshi,
USDA-ARS-NCAUR, USA Session chair
1:00
pm “Metabolic engineering of the thermophilic
bacterium Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum
JW/SL-YS485 for ethanol production” J. Shaw,
Dartmouth College, USA
1:20 pm “Metabolic
engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum for the
production of 1, 3 propanediol” P. Soucaille,
METabolic EXplorer S.A., France
1:40 pm
“Closed-loop acetone-butanol-ethanol
fermentation” A. Lopez-Contreras, Wageningen
University, The Netherlands
2:00 pm Break – light refreshments in the
central hall
2:25 pm Clostridial production of solvents
I. Maddox, Massey University, New Zealand
Session chair
2:25 pm “Clostridia for solvent production from
lignocellulosics” W. Schwarz, Technische
Universität München, Germany
2:45 pm “Production of acetone butanol (AB)
from Agricultural residues using Clostridium
acetobutylicum in batch reactors coupled with
product recovery” N. Qureshi, USDA-ARS-NCAUR,
USA
3:05 pm “High efficient butanol production
system using non-growing cells” Y. Tashiro,
Saga University, Japan
3:30 pm “Commercialization of clostridial
fermentations” Panel Discussion – H. Blaschek,
University of Illinois, USA Moderator
4:10 pm Break – light refreshments in the
central hall
4:20 pm Poster session Sponsored by USDA ARS
6:30 pm Depart by bus to Churrascos,
Houston, TX
Evening Meal
Final Remarks, and passing the flag to
Clostridium X host
Transport back to hotel
May 21 Sunday morning: Departure from hotel
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