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BIO Announces Breakout Program Speakers for Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology

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Commercialization of cleaner, safer consumer products through innovative industrial biotechnology processes will be the focus of breakout sessions at the ninth annual Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy.</p>

Industrial biotechnology offers cleaner, safer processes and ingredients for developing consumer products. Commercialization of these innovative processes will be the focus of breakout sessions at the ninth annual Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy, to be held at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, December 7-9, 2014. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today announced the program of breakout sessions for the Summit.

Breakout sessions are organized into five tracks, with concurrent sessions and presentations on Monday December 8 and Tuesday December 9:

  • Feedstock Production and Utilization
  • Renewable Chemical Platforms
  • Advanced Biofuels and Biorefinery Platforms
  • Synthetic Biology, Algae and Marine Biotechnology
  • Technical and Research Presentations

Breakout sessions, speakers and presentations focusing on commercialization of new industrial biotechnology for renewable chemicals and biofuels include:

The Pathway to Commercialization - Lessons Learned
Monday, Dec. 8 – 8:30 – 10:00am

  • Michael Krel, Sofinnova Partners
  • Mark Burk, Genomatica
  • Allen Barbieri, Biosynthetic Technologies
  • Michael Leavell, Amyris

Converting GHG’s to Achieving a Fuel and Climate Solution
Monday, Dec. 8 – 10:30am – 12:00pm 

  • Richard Altman, Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative
  • David Anton, Joule
  • Josh Silverman, Calysta, Inc.
  • Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan, South Dakota State University

Leading Pre-Treatment Technologies for Production of Fuels, Chemicals, and Feed
Monday, Dec. 8 – 2:30 – 4:00pm

  • Charles Wyman, University of California Riverside
  • Bruce Dale, Michigan State University
  • Michael Ladisch, Purdue University

Algae Testbeds: Models for Accelerating Commercialization
Tuesday, Dec. 9 – 2:00 – 3:30pm

  • Philip Pienkos, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  • John McGowen, Arizona State University
  • Rene Wijffels, Wageningen University and Research Centre
  • Kimberly Ogden, University of Arizona
  • Hiroyuki Mochizuki, University of Tsukuba

All programs at the Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy are open to attendance by credentialed members of the media. Complimentary media registration is available to editors and reporters working full time for print, broadcast or web publications with valid press credentials. Media pre-registration is open.

Now in its ninth year, the Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy is the original conference dedicated solely to growth of the industrial biotechnology sector in Asia and the Americas. For more information on the conference, please visit http://www.bio.org/pacrim.