Fifth Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing Linking Biotechnology, Chemistry and Agriculture to Create New Value Chains
Summary Proceedings Fifth Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing Linking Biotechnology, Chemistry and Agriculture to Create New Value Chains Chicago, April 27–30, 2008 Summary Proceedings Fifth Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing ©2008 National Agricultural Biotechnology Council Not for Sale (request a free copy) Foreword and Acknowledgments he Fifth Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing convened Tin Chicago, April 27–30, 2008, organized by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the National Agricultural Biotechnology Coun- cil (NABC), the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the DOE’s Genomics:GTL Program. Some 170 presentations were made in six plenary and ten “break-out” sessions (each with fi ve parallel tracks); fi fty-fi ve presentations were made as posters and six workshops were held. This was the best-attended World Conference to date, with 1,100 delegates. The organizers are grateful to BIOTECanada and EuropaBio as supporting organizations, to Industrial Biotechnology as the media sponsor, and to the many conference sponsors. Par- ticular thanks are due the program committee for their hard work and dedication in screening submissions, locating speakers and in organizing a very dynamic program: George Anderl, Roland Andersson, Rich Burlingame, Bruce Dale, Allen Dines, Larry Drumm, Raymond Dry- malski, John Finley, John Frost, Richard Gross, Jack Grushcow, Ralph Hardy, Jack Huttner, James Iademarco, James Lalonde, Sophie Laury, Birgit Kamm, Mike Ladisch, David Lee, Eric Mathur, Jim Millis, Ramani Narayan, Glenn Nedwin, Erin O’Driscoll, Adrien Pilon, William Provine, John Ranieri, Maria Rapoza, Anna Rath, Manfred Ringpfeil, Gerson Santos, Philip Schwab, Garrett Screws, James Seiber, James Stoppert, Mark Stowers, Larry Walker, David Ward, Roger Wyse, James Zhang and Paul Zorner.
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