ICBPPI Oral Presentations
Sunday, June 10
Plenary Lecture
Prof. Chris SomervilleCell wall polysaccharide
synthesis
Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution and Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
Monday, June 11
Biopulping and Biorefining 1
André Ferraz
Mill evaluation of wood chips biotreated on a 50-ton biopulping pilot-plant and advances on understanding biopulping mechanisms
Escola
de Engenharia de Lorena, Univ São Paulo, Lorena, SP, Brazil
William R. Kenealy
Obtaining value prior to pulping with diethyl oxalate and oxalic acid
USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Bernard Kurek
Oxalate pre-treatment of wood: an attempt to correlate the modifications of cell wall polymers with the defiberization energy level
Enzymatic Modification of Fibers 1
Graziano Elegir
Development of antimicrobial cellulose packaging through laccase mediated grafting of aromatic acids and essential oil components
Stazione Sperimentale Carta Cartoni e Paste per Carta, Milano, Italy
Xiao Zhang
Bleaching of kraft pulp by a commercial lipase: accessory enzymes degrade hexenuronic acids
Paprican, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, H9R 3J9 Canada
Tiina Pursula
The fiber-level mechanisms of CBHI on hardwood kraft pulp
KCL Science and Consulting, Espoo, Finland
Fungal Genetics 1
Hiroyuki Wariishi
Integrative OMIC Study for fungal pathway analysis
Department of Forest and Forest Products Sciences, Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan
Rafael Vicuna
Functional characterization of the transcription factor ACE1 from the basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Ángel T. Martínez
Structure-function
characterization of different substrate oxidation sites in Pleurotus versatile
peroxidases
CIB, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Lígia O. Martins
Bacterial laccases as tools for biotechnology
Instituto
de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa, Portugal
Genetics of Wood 1
John Ralph
Perturbations
of the lignin biosynthetic pathway and their impacts on Pulp and Paper
production
US
Dairy Forage Research Center, USDA-ARS, Madison, WI, USA
Toshiaki Umezawa
Characterization of transcription factors controlling the cinnamate/monolignol pathway by gene-coexpression network analysis of microarray data sets
Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan
Heather D. Coleman
Manipulating
poplar lignin content and structure by RNAi-mediated suppression of p-coumaroylshikimate
3’-hydroxylase (C3’H)
U. British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ying-Hsuan Sun
Mass
parallel sequencing-based profiling of small regulatory RNAs associated
with wood formation in the Populus genome
North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USA
Industrial Applications 1
Jeff Tolan
Iogen's process for the production of fuel ethanol from cellulosic feedstocks
Iogen Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Michael Paice
New Opportunities for Enzyme Applications in the Pulp and Paper Industry
Ali R. Esteghlalian
Application of thermostable xylanase enzyme products in prebleaching of softwood and hardwood pulps
Diversa Corporation, San Diego, California, USA
Sandra Winestrand
Enzyme-based control of oxalic acid in the pulp and paper industry
Poster Session 1
Tuesday, June 12
Genetics of Wood 2
Maud Hinchee
Commercial applications of forest tree biotechnology
ArborGen LLC. PO Box 840001, Summerville, South Carolina, USA
Shiro Suzuki
The
cellulose synthase gene superfamily and biochemical functions of xylem-specific
cellulose synthase-like genes in Populus trichocarpa
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Chandrashekhar P. Joshi
Functional genomics-based genetic improvement of cellulose biosynthesis in poplars
Biotechnology Research Center, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michiagan, USA
Fungal Genetics 2
Jagjit S. Yadav
Functional
genomics of P450 monooxygenases in the white rot fungus Phanerochaete
chrysosporium
University of Cincinnati, Department of Environmental Health, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Yitzhak Hadar
Altered manganese
peroxidase and laccase expression profiles during solid state fermentation
of Pleurotus ostreatus on a lignocellulosic substrate
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalen, Israel
Ichiro Kamei
Expression
analysis of manganese peroxidases from saline-tolerant white rot fungus,
Phlebia sp. MG60
Department of Forest and Forest Products Sciences, Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan
Bioconversion 1
Ulrika Rova
Succinic acid production as an integral component of a forest products biorefinery
Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå Sweden
Tina Jeoh
Chemical and physical properties of pretreated biomass that affect cellobiohydrolase accessibility and digestibility
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden Colorado, USA
Phillip J. Kersten
Reaction Partitioning with Aldose-2-ulose Dehydratase for Production of Novel Acids
Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
James P. Nakas
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from Wood-Based Feedstocks
SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York
Enzymatic Modification of Fibers 2
Sandra Tapin-Lingua
Potential of feruloyl esterase applied on wheat straw to produce pulp and phenolic compounds
Centre Technique du Papier - InTechFibres, Domaine Universitaire, Grenoble, France
Peter Biely
Glucuronoyl
esterase – Novel microbial hydrolase involved in plant cell wall
degradation
Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
A. Suurnäkki
Papermaking with enzymatically functionalised pulps
VTT, P.O. Box 1000, 02044 VTT, Finland
Harry Brumer
Biomimetic
approaches for cellulose modification using xyloglucan and XET – from
functional surfaces to biocomposites
School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
New Directions
Taina K. Lundell
Fungal lignin-modifying peroxidases and laccases: a phylogenetic view on specific functions
Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Alexander N. Kapich
Oxygenase activity of manganese peroxidase and its significance for lignin degradation
International Sakharov Environmental University
Elisa M. Woolridge
Characterization of the Inactivation of Xylanase by Laccase and a Redox Mediator
Marist College
Fachuang Lu
Why COMT-deficient plants have poor pulping performance
US Dairy Forage Research Center, USDA-ARS, Madison, WI
Poster Session 2
Wednesday, June 13
Industrial Applications 2
James Luo
Enzymatic De-inking of Recycled Paper: From Laboratory to Mill Scale
Douglas W. Yoder
Fiber modification enzymes: Opening the operations window
J. M. A. Hoddenbagh
Reducing chip refining energies by enzymatic treatment of hardwood chips prior to refining
Bioconversion 2
W. H. Van Zyl
Construction of cellulolytic Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for consolidated bioprocessing
University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Thomas W. Jeffries
The
genome of Pichia stipitis reveals many features for bioconversion of lignocellulose
Forest Products Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Antonio G. Pisabarro
How can genome mapping and sequencing help in improving the industrial lignocellulolytic abilities of Pleurotus ostreatus as a model for other white rot fungi
Department of Agrarian Production, Public University of Navarre, 31006 Pamplona, Spai
Biosystems of Natural Lignocellulose Degradation 1
Ming Tien
The
extracellular proteome of Phanerochaete chrysosporium
Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA
Martin Hofrichter
Extracellular mushroom peroxygenases which hydroxylate and O-demethylate lignin model compounds
International Graduate School of Zittau, Unit of Environmental Biotechnology, Zittau, Germany
Petr Baldrian
Lignocellulose-degrading enzymes of hardwood forest soil: Their activity, spatial distribution and their producers - saprotrophic basidiomycetes
Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, 14220 Praha 4, Czech Republic
Kristiina Hildén
Characterization
of manganese peroxidase and laccase of the white-rot fungus Physisporinus
rivulosus
Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Bioprocessing and Biorefining 2
Karin Fackler
Evaluation of the selectivity of white rot isolates using near infrared spectroscopic techniques
Competence Center for Wood Composites and Wood Chemistry (Wood K plus), St. Peter Strasse 25, A- 4021 Linz, Austria
Roberta Lee Farrell
Albino Fungal Effects on TMP and Dissolving Pulp Mill Operations
The University of Waikato, Waikato, New Zealand
J. Zhao
Effect of Microbioal Pretreatment on Brightness Reversion of Wheat Straw Semi-Mechanical Pulp and Aspen CTMP
State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, PR China
Pekka Maijala
Treatment of softwood chips with enzymes may reduce refining energy consumption and increase surface charge of fibres
Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Enzymatic Modification 3
Ewald Srebotnik
Enzymatic Modification for the Manufacture of Wood Composites
Wood K plus-Competence Centre for Wood Composites and Wood Chemistry, Linz, Austria, and Institute of Chemical Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Maria Anna Henriksson
Design of a large-scale production system for the hybrid aspen enzyme xyloglucan endo-transglycosylase, useful as a tool for fibre modification
Wood Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Dominic Rochefort
Enzyme immobilization on paper via microencapsulation: towards bioactive papers
Chemistry Department, Université de Montréal, CP 6128 Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Qc, Canada
Liisa Viikari
Printed fuel cells with laccases as cathodic biocatalysts
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Reception, Banquet and Entertainment
Thursday, June 14
Biosystems of Natural Lignocellulose Degradation 2
Kenneth E. Hammel
Small oxidants as agents of lignocellulose decay by fungi
US Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Christina Bohlin
Diastereomer selectivity and product profile as indicators of oxidants implicated in lignin degradation by white-rot fungi
Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden
Takashi Watanabe
Redox silencing of the Fenton reaction system by an alkylitaconic acid, ceriporic acid B produced by a selective white rot fungus, Ceriporiopsis subvermispora
Genetic and Enzymatic Modification of Plant Fibers
Kyung-Hwan Han
Modification of the structure and biochemistry of wood for value-added wood products and improved processes
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Yuji Tsutsumi
The role of Tyr on the protein surface of cationic cell-wall-peroxidase (CWPO-C) from poplar: a novel oxidation site for the oxidative polymerization of lignin
Department of Forest and Forest Products Sciences, Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan
Ana Gutiérrez
A new solution to pitch problems in the pulp and paper industry using the laccase-mediator system
Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología,
CSIC, Seville, Spain
Summary Discussion of Scientific Progress
Speakers to be arranged