Meeting Announcement
A workshop and an "Eastern Forum" on bio-energy from April 14 to 19, 2008, organized jointly by Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (SIPPE) and Partner Institute of Computational Biology (PICB).
Venue: Room 300, Main building of SIBS, 320 Yueyang Road (click -> here for a map)
For details on the program and for abstracts, click -> here
You can apply online for registration here.
As nations begin to learn how to live in a post-Kyoto-Climate-Protocol (1997) world, the pace of alternative-energy development quickens. Bioenergy, that is, energy derived, directly or indirectly, from photosynthesis, holds the potential to transform the way we live by providing a renewable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly energy source. The development of better methods to utilizing this source of energy is, therefore, of vital importance to human and environmental health and to global prosperity, more than almost any other single issue facing mankind today.
See e.g. Wikipedia on Biofuel or http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html, but see also
this article by Tehran Times.
This workshop and the forum will focus on both, fundamental biology and technological, approaches to developing feasible and productive methods to increase the yield of energy that can be derived from harvesting the sun’s energy by plants and microbes. International and national experts are invited to give an overview on the state of the art including research regarding different energy crops, potentials to engineering plant metabolism for biofuel production, and the technologies to convert biomass to biofuels inclucding biogas production and usage.
The workshop is open for all interested scientists including PhD-students, postdocs, and faculty. We can admit up to 30 participants.
Organizers:
Andreas Dress (PICB, Shanghai)
Xue Hongwei (SIPPE, Shanghai)
Zhu Xinguang (UIUC, Urbana)
Speakers List:
1. Laigeng Li, SIPPE
2. Shengli Yang, SIBS
3. Chunyun Guan, Hunan Agricultural University
4. Xiaoya Chen, SIBS
5. Hongwei Xue, SIPPE
6. Liangcai Peng, Huazhong Agricultural University
7. Xin-guang Zhu, UIUC, Urbana.
8. Alf Puehler, Bielefeld.
9. Rommel Montúfar, Quito,
10. Steve Long, Deputy Director of Energy Bioscience Institute, UIUC,
11. Nathan Price, System Biologist, UIUC, Model Guided Cellular Engineering
12. still to be determined.
For details on the program and for abstracts, click -> here.
