January 15-16, 2009
Draft Agenda – subject to change
Day 1 – Thursday January 15, 2009 |
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| 11:00 am | Registration |
| 11:45 am | Lunch Welcome – Kevin Kephart, Chair, Sun Grant Association, South Dakota State University National Sun Grant Update – Terry Nipp, Executive Director, Sun Grant Association North Central Region Sun Grant Activity – Jim Doolittle, Director, NC Sun Grant Center, South Dakota State University |
| 1:30 pm | Novel Recoverable Enzyme Nanoparticles for Cellulose Hydrolysis*** – Patrick Johnson, University of Wyoming |
| 2:00pm | Feedstock Crop Type Mapping Project, Mike Wimberly, South Dakota State University |
| 2:30 pm | Sustainable Cropping Systems for harvesting Corn Stover for Biomass*** – Ken Moore, Iowa State University (Kendall Lamkey presenting) |
| 3:00 pm | Academic Consortium, Internships and Graduate Programs –Dan Humburg, South Dakota State University |
| 3:30 pm | Break |
| 4:00 pm | Diversifying Midwestern biofuel feedstocks: An Evaluation of Nitrogen –Fixing Alnus and Salix Germplasm***, Stan Hokanson, University of Minnesota (___________ presenting) |
| 4:30 pm | North Central Bioeconomy Consortium, Brendan Jordan, Great Plains Institute |
| 5:00 pm | Open Dialogue on afternoon presentations |
| 5:30pm | Adjourn |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner – Maintaining Ecological Integrity in an Age of Biofuels, Susan Rupp, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at South Dakota State University |
Day 2 – Friday January 16, 2009 |
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| 7:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:15 am | MJ Fiocco – United States Department of Transportation |
| 8:30 am | Biorenewables Conference Partnership and eXtension Feedstock COP – Paul Brown, Iowa State University and E. Kim Cassel, South Dakota State University |
| 9:00 am | Developing a Sustainable Feedstock and Next Generation Processing Technology*** – Bill Gibbons, South Dakota State University |
| 9:30 am | Feedstock Partnership Database, Knowledge, Data, Framework (KDF) – Rajesh Chintala, South Dakota State University |
| 10:00 am | Break |
| 10:30 am | Develop Sustainable Renewable Energy Systems for Practical Utilization of Bulk Biomass*** – Roger Ruan, University of Minnesota |
| 11:00 am | Developing of a Prairie Biorefinery, Kashi Muthu, South Dakota State University |
| 11:30 am | Open Dialogue on morning presentations and announcement of Feedstock Logistics Competitive Grant selections. |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch (small group discussion and feedback) |
