1. Lecturer: Prof. JERRY J. BRAND
2. Time: 09:30, Sept.13. 2013.
3. Place:,Yifu Humanities Building ,Wushan.
Keynote Speakers
1. Prof. JERRY J. BRAND
Dr. Jerry Brand is Director of the Culture Collection of Algae at The University of Texas at Austin, which is perhaps the largest and probably the most diverse, library of living algae in the world, as well as Professor of School of Biological Sciences at UTEX, USA. He conducts basic and applied research on the biology of microalgae. His primary current research interests are as follows: (1). Development of a flexible microalgal culturing facility, using vertical-tube bioreactors. (2) Characterization of microalgal-based (cyanobacterial) biofilms and marine microbial mats. (3) Improved production of isoprene-based compounds in the thermophilic cyanobacterium, BP-1. (4) Developing improved methods for maintaining and characterizing living algae that are maintained in UTEX, The Culture Collection of Algae. Jerry Brand interacts extensively with the community of scientists, engineers and business interests that is developing new commercial uses of algae, especially as a source of transportation fuel.
http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/brand/
2. Prof. R. Roger Ruan
Dr. Ruan is Professor of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering Department and Center for Biorefining in University of Minnesota, USA. His research focuses on various aspects of value-added processing, renewable energy and environment, and food engineering. His current interests are in conversion of renewable biomass into energy fuel, chemical, and material, food quality enhancement, and safety and security assurance, algae production and wastewater treatment, and nonthermal plasma development and application in flue gas and hazardous emission control and disinfection. His has published nearly 300 papers in refereed journals, book, and book chapters, and over 300 meeting papers and other reports, and holds 13 US patents. He has received over 140 projects totaling over $20 million in various funding from USDA, DOE, DOT, and DOD, and industries. He is an editor-in-chief of International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, editorial board member of Journal of Food Process Engineering, and Associate Editor of Transactions of ASABE, Engineering Applications in Agriculture, and Transactions of CSAE. He has been a consultant for government agencies, and many local, national, and international companies and agencies in bioprocess engineering, food engineering, and renewable energy areas.
Http://biorefining.cfans.umn.edu
Http://www.bbe.umn.edu/staff/ruan.html
3. Dr. Al Darzins
Dr. Al Darzins is R&D Director in the Infrastructure Sector at Gas Technology Institute (GTI), USA. He is responsible for establishing GTI’s biological methane to liquid fuels (Bio-GTL) program, evaluating GTI’s Integrated Hydropyrolysis and Hydroconversion (IH2) process for the large scale conversion of algal biomass to hydrocarbon fuels, developing technologies for the treatment of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing operations, and establishing industry-wide use of molecular genetic-based monitoring scheme for biocorrosion. He was the former Senior Research Manager, Biofuels in DuPont (2010-2012) where worked on biobutanol production and developing fuels from macroalgae, and the Principal Group Manager/ Principal Scientist, National Bioenergy Center in National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) (2005-2010). His notable achievements are as follows: Re-established NREL’s Microalgal Biofuels Program; Founding member, Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2); Founding fellow, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI); Member, Algae Biomass Organization (ABO), American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and Society for Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (SIMB); Biofuels Digest Top 100 People in Bioenergy - (2010); He has authored almost 50 scientific articles and/or book chapters and has presented at numerous national and international conferences. He is aninventor on 12 U.S. issued patents and 12 U.S. patents pending;
http://www.gastechnology.org/news/Pages/GTI-Adds-New-Bioenergy-Expert-to-Infrastructure-Sector.aspx
4. Prof. David Lewis
Dr. David Lewis is Associate Professor in School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide, and Chief Technology Officer, Muradel Pty Ltd, Australia. He is also the President of Asia-Pacific Society for Applied Phycology, and member in executive committee, International Society of Applied Phycology. Associate Professor David Lewis is a chemical engineer and an academic in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide. He enrolled at the university as a mature-age undergraduate in 1993 whilst employed as an Electrical Fitter Mechanic in the mining and automation industries, completing a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) Honours Degree in 1998. In 1999 David commenced a PhD in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His PhD project was focussed on the control of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) in drinking supply reservoirs, which was funded by the Australian Government. David became a lecturer in 2002 and setup the Microalgal Engineering Research Group (MERG) with a research focus on sustainable technologies exploiting microalgae. MERG is funded to undertake R&D on water and wastewater quality & treatment, commercial and environmental applications for microalgae, and is actively involved with the development of sustainable downstream processing technologies for microalgal products, in particular biofuels. Currently, MERG is developing industrial scale harvesting, dewatering, extraction and biomass to fuel conversion processes. In 2011, A/Prof Lewis completed a joint project (‘A fully integrated process for biodiesel production from microalgae in saline water’) with Murdoch University, which led to the establishment of a pilot plant located at Karratha, Western Australia. The pilot plant was used for R&D to commercialise the production of microalgae for renewable energy, in particular biofuel. The pilot plant is now owned and operated by a joint venture company, Muradel Pty Ltd for which A/Prof Lewis is currently employed the Chief Technology Officer. Muradel Pty Ltd is building a fully integrated industry scale demonstration plant in Whyalla, South Australia, to produce green crude from marine microalgae. As a Chemical Engineer with a trade (Electrical Fitter/Mechanic) background, David is well equipped to undertake commercialisation of industrial scale technologies, research and development. His engineering background provides the necessary skills to be able to conceptualise and scale-up processes that are economically and environmentally sustainable.
http://www.chemeng.adelaide.edu.au/people/dlewis01.html
5. Prof. Song Xue
Dr. Song Xue is Professor of Marine Bioproducts Engineering Group in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. She was obtained Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering in 2003 and funded by “100 talents plan” of Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2007 to 2009 she worked at Florida State University as research faculty. She has published papers in Science, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Molecular Cell, Bioresource technology and so on. The group has been supported by Ministry of Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and industry. Her research focuses on:
1.To understand the mechanism of enzymes reactions by X-ray crystallography in structural biology. The enzymes stem from marine organism especially marine microalgae and actinomycetes.
2.To understand the accumulation of lipids or starch in microalgae by studying the key enzymes and relative complex by X-ray crystallography in structural biology and biochemistry.
3.To engineer the genes of microalgae based on the above knowledge and simultaneously to evaluate the practical effect of the mutant microalgae in the big scale by controlled microalgal photo bioreactorthe key enzymes in the metabolism pathway and their structures in the algae, bioactive compounds or enzymes from marine microorganism as well.
http://sourcedb.dicp.cas.cn/zw/zjrck/201003/t20100316_2798050.html
