Sun Grant Initiative Brown Bag Seminar Series
This seminar series is intended to provide a forum to discuss
ideas for cooperative/collaborative research on biomass
conversion around the UTIA. Please be prepared to contribute.
Also feel free to bring your lunch!
Upcoming Sessions:
Check back for new seminars soon!
Past Presentations:
(Click on title for an Adobe pdf version of the presentation (if available)
Dr. Claus Felby, Copenhagen University, Denmark
"Biomass for energy: What's cooking in EU and Denmark" - Presentation (PDF 5.5 MB)
11:00 am, May 2, 2008, Forest Products Center Conference Room
Dr. Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Univ. of Tennessee
"Biofuels, Food Security and Environmental Sustainability: Global Challenges and Opportunities." -- Presentation (PDF 1.5 MB)
12:00 noon, April 25, 2008, Room 113 Plant Biotech Building
Ray Fort, Professor of Chemistry, University of Maine
"Exploring the Chemistry of Hemicelluloses"
12:00 Noon, Nov. 28, 2007, Forest Products Center Conference Room
Barry Bruce, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology &
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee
"Applied Photosynthesis: Putting Photosystem I to Work"
12:00 Noon, Oct. 10, 2007, Forest Products Center Conference Room
Alison Buchan. Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee
"Marine microbial communities: untapped resource for novel lignin and lignocellulose degrading enzymes"
12:00 pm (Noon), Sept. 26, 2007, Forest Products Center Conference Room
John Ralph, Research Chemist, USDA Agricultural Research Service
"Perturbations of the Lignin Biosynthetic Pathway and their Potential to Impact Plant Cell Wall Utilization"
2:00 pm, Sept. 24, 2007, Forest Products Center Conference Room
Dr. Sandeep Agnihotri, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
"Assessment of Nanocarbon Porosity By Adsorption Methods"
12:00 PM (Noon), Wednesday, June 20, 2007, Forest Products Center Conference Room
Dr. Brian Davison, Chief Scientist, Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Bioenergy and Systems Biology at ORNL"
1:30 PM, Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 Forest Products Center Conference Room
Dr. Viatcheslav (Slava) Naoumov, Visiting Professor, UT Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
Topic: Non-Conventional Bio-Derived Fuels for Hybrid Rocket Motors --
Presentation AbstractWed. Feb. 7, 2007 at 12:00 pm Forest Products Center Conference Room
Dr. Lynn Wright, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Topic: Development of biomass resources for bioenergy production
Friday Feb. 9, 2007 at 1:00 pm, Forest Products Center Conference Room
Dr. Douglas Hayes, Associate Professor, UTIA Dept. of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science
"Biocatalytic Processing of Biomass for Biofuels and Bio-Based Products" -- Presentation PDFThursday August 3, 12:00 noon Room 156/157 of the Plant Biotechnology Building
Dr. Burt English, Professor and Research Coordinator, UTIA Dept. of Agricultural Economics
"Economic Contributions to the Agricultural Sector from a Bio- Energy and Bio-Product Industry: A focus on the Southeastern United States." -- Presentation PDFThursday, May 18, 2006, 12:00 Noon Forest Products Center, Conference Room
Dr. Liam Leightley, Professor and Head, Department of Forest Products, Mississippi State University
“Forest Products R&D at the Mississippi Forest Products Laboratory ”
Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 2:00 pm Forest Products Center Conference Room
Dr. Marcia Patton-Mallory, Coordinator of Biomass and Bioenergy Programs, USDA Forest Service
Woody Biomass: USDA Forest Service Overview -- Presentation PDFMonday, April 24, 2006, 12:00 Noon Forest Products Center, Conference Room
Dr. Yoshikuni Teramoto, Biomass Technology Research Center, Hiroshima, Japan
Monday, March 20, 2006, 12:00 Noon Forest Products Center, Conference Room
Dr. Alvin R. Womac, Professor, UTIA Dept. of Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science
"Biomass Collection, Transport, Storage, and Pre-Processing: A Systematic Approach" -- Presentation PDFThursday, February 23, 2006, 12:00 Noon Forest Products Center, Conference Room
Dr. X. Philip Ye, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science
“Biorefinery -- the path forward for biofuels and biomaterials” -- Presentation PDFThursday, February. 9, 2006, 12:00 Noon Forest Products Center, Conference Room
Dr. Neal Stewart, Jr., UTIA Racheff Chair of Excellence and Professor
Plant Molecular Genetics
“Biotechnology for genetic improvement of bioenergy feedstocks” -- Presentation PDFMonday, December 12, 2005, 12:00 Noon, Forest Products Center, Conference Room
