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18th Annual

Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing Conference

Joint with Iowa Biotech Association Annual Meeting

"Biofuels, Biochemicals and Protein Production"

Iowa Memorial Union, Iowa City, IA

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2009 Adjourn

4:00 PM		Registration – outside Ballroom, 2nd floor IMU
4:00–6:00		Poster set up – Main Lounge, 1st floor IMU
4:30		Tour of CBB – Please register for tour online
6:00–7:00		Welcome Dinner/ Buffet – Ballroom, 2nd floor IMU
7:00–8:00		Robert Reiter, Ph.D., VP Breeding Technology, Monsanto "Applying Genetic Science to Plant Breeding for Bio-Based Applications"

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009

7–8:00 AM		Registration – outside Main Lounge, 1st floor IMU
7:00–8:00		IBA Breakfast meeting – South Room, 1st floor IMU
7:30		Continental Breakfast – Main Lounge, 1st floor IMU
		Program – Ballroom – 2nd floor IMU
8:30		Introduction and Welcome. Mani Subramanian, Ph.D., Director, Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing Professor, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
9:00		Kevin Jarrell, Ph.D., President and CSO of Modular Genetics, Cambridge, MA "Automated Microbial Strain Engineering"
9:45		James Liao, Ph.D.,Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, , University of California, Los Angeles, CA "*Synthetic Metabolism for Fuels and Chemicals"*
10:30		Break – Main Lounge, 1st floor IMU
10:45		Krishna K. Niyogi, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Plant & Microbioal Biology University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA *"Light Harvesting for Algal Biofuels"*
11:30		Lunch – Joint CBB – IBA Awards Lunch Entrepreneur Award and two Friends of Biotech Award presentations, Main Lounge, 1st floor IMU CBB Advisory Board Meeting, – South Room 1st floor IMU
		Afternoon session
1:15 PM		Matthew S. Croughan, Ph.D., Director of the Amgen Bioprocessing Center, and George B. and Joy Rathmann Professor, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA *“Evolution in Biotechnology: Cells, Processes and Organizational Structures”*
2:00-3:00		CBB/NIH/NSF Fellow Presentations Four 10 minute talks plus 5 minutes for questions, by selected graduate students.
3:00-4:00		IBA Board of Directors Meeting by invitation only.
3:00-5:00		Poster Session - Wine/hors d'oeuvres
5:00		Announcement of Usha Prize winner and other IBA prize winners
		Adjourn

Any questions or comments about the CBB conferences should be directed to Nancy Ream.