Biotechnology for fuels and chemicals : the twenty-fourth symposium : proceedings of the twenty-fourth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, held April 28-May 1, 2002, in Gatlinburg, TN (2003)

Session 1-Feedstock Production, Genetic Modification, and Processing.- to Session 1.- Rapid Biomass Analysis: New Tools for Compositional Analysis of Corn Stover Feedstocks and Process Intermediates from Ethanol Production.- Xylem-Specific and Tension Stress-Responsive Expression of Cellulose Synthase Genes from Aspen Trees.- Microbial Pretreatment of Biomass: Potential for Reducing Severity of Thermochemical Biomass Pretreatment.- Physical Separation of Straw Stem Components to Reduce Silica.- Application of a Depolymerization Model for Predicting Thermochemical Hydrolysis of Hemicellulose.- Dilute-Sulfuric Acid Pretreatment of Corn Stover in Pilot-Scale Reactor: Investigation of Yields, Kinetics, and Enzymatic Digestibilities of Solids.- Hydrothermal Pretreatment Conditions to Enhance Ethanol Production from Poplar Biomass.- Estimation of Temperature Transients for Biomass Pretreatment in Tubular Batch Reactors and Impact on Xylan Hydrolysis Kinetics.- Effect of Sulfuric and Phosphoric Acid Pretreatments on Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Corn Stover.- Combined Use of H2SO4 and SO2 Impregnation for Steam Pretreatment of Spruce in Ethanol Production.- Effect of Lignocellulosic Degradation Compounds from Steam Explosion Pretreatment on Ethanol Fermentation by Thermotolerant Yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus.- Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Ammonia-Treated Rice Straw.- Effects of Temperature and Moisture on Dilute-Acid Steam Explosion Pretreatment of Corn Stover and Cellulase Enzyme Digestibility.- Sugar Monomer and Oligomer Solubility: Data and Predictions for Application to Biomass Hydrolysis.- Influence of Pressure in Ethanol/Water Pulping of Sugarcane Bagasse.- Post-Harvest Processing Methods for Reduction of Silica and Alkali Metals in Wheat Straw.- Composition and Ethanol Production Potential of Cotton Gin Residues.- Wood-Ethanol for Climate Change Mitigation in Canada.- Session 2-Microbial Catalysis and Metabolic Engineering.- to Session 2.- Saccharification of Marine Microalgae Using Marine Bacteria for Ethanol Production.- D-Xylose Transport by Candida succiphila and Kluyveromyces marxianus.- Molecular Characterization of a Gene for Aldose Reductase (CbXYL1) from Candida boidinii and Its Expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.- Changing Flux of Xylose Metabolites by Altering Expression of Xylose Reductase and Xylitol Dehydrogenase in Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae.- Effect of Media on Spore Yield and Thermal Resistance of Bacillus stearothermophilus.- Cassava Flour Wastewater as a Substrate for Biosurfactant Production.- A New Oxygen Sensitivity and Its Potential Application in Photosynthetic H2 Production.- Session 3-Bioprocessing Research.- to Session 3.- Optimization of SO2-Catalyzed Steam Pretreatment of Corn Fiber for Ethanol Production.- A Comprehensive Kinetic Model for Dilute-Acid Hydrolysis of Cellulose.- Effect of Agitation on Removal of Acetic Acid from Pretreated Hydrolysate by Activated Carbon.- Enzymatic Digestibility of Used Newspaper Treated with Aqueous Ammonia-Hydrogen Peroxide Solution.- Continuous Production of Butanol from Starch-Based Packing Peanuts.- Measurement of Rheological Properties of Corn Stover Suspensions.- Effect of Bacillus circulons D1 Thermostable Xylanau on Biobleaching of Eucalyptus Kraft Pulp.- Fungi Allergens Produced by Solid-State Fermentation Process: Optimization and Allergen Characterization.- Hybrid Model for an Enzymatic Reactor: Hydrolysis of Cheese Whey Proteins by Alcalase Immobilized in Agarose Gel Particles.- Preliminary Investigation of Fungal Bioprocessing of Wheat Straw for Production of Straw-Thermoplastic Composites.- Simulation of Aerated Lagoon Using Artificial Neural Networks and Multivariate Regression Techniques.- Simplistic Modeling Approach to Heterogeneous Dilute-Acid Hydrolysis of Cellulose Microcrystallites.- Cellulosic Fuel Ethanol: Alternative Fermentation Process Designs with Wild-Type and Recombinant Zymomonas mobilis.- Effects of Pressure Pulsation on Oxygen Transfer Rate Measured by Sulfite Method.- Permeation Associated with Three-Phase Partitioning Method on Release of Green Fluorescent Protein.- Comparison of Growth Characteristics of Panax ginseng Hairy Roots in Various Bioreactors.- Heterogeneous Aspects of Acid Hydrolysis of ?-Cellulose.- Characterization of Molecular Weight Distribution of Oligomers from Autocatalyzed Batch Hydrolysis of Xylan.- Conversion of Sugarcane Bagasse to Carboxylic Acids Using a Mixed Culture of Mesophilic Microorganisms.- Alternative Approach for Utilization of Pentose Stream from Sugarcane Bagasse by an Induced Flocculent Pichia stipitis.- Hydrogen Production from Paper Sludge Hydrolysate.- Single-Stage Anaerobic Codigestion for Mixture Wastes of Simulated Korean Food Waste and Waste Activated Sludge.- Biosorption and Desorption of Copper (II) Ions by Bacillus sp..- Flow Field in a Shrinking-Bed Reactor for Pretreatment of Cellulosic Biomass.- Lactic Acid Production Through Cell-Recycle Repeated-Batch Bioreactor.- Limits for Alkaline Detoxification of Dilute-Acid Lignocellulose Hydrolysates.- Session 4-Genetics and Genomics in Bioenergy and Bioproducts.- to Session 4.- Session 5-Development of Biobased Products.- to Session 5.- Production of Lactic Acid from Food Wastes.- Microbiologic Oxidation of Isosafrole into Piperonal.- Breathing Air from Protein Foam.- Session 6-Enzymatic Production and Conversions.- to Session 6.- Partial Purification and Kinetic Characterization of Acid Phosphatase from Garlic Seedling.- Automated Filter Paper Assay for Determination of Cellulase Activity.- Adsorption of Components of Enzymatic Synthesis of Ampicillin on Different Hydrophobic Resins.- Xylanase Production by Trichoderma reesei Rut C-30 on Rice Straw.- A Different Method of Measuring and Detecting Mono- and Dioxygenase Activities: Key Enzymes in Hydrocarbon Biodegradation.- Xylanase Production by Penicillium canescens 10-10c in Solid-State Fermentation.- Protease Production by Streptomyces sp. Isolated from Brazilian Cerrado Soil: Optimization of Culture Medium Employing Statistical Experimental Design.- Synthesis of Monocaprin Catalyzed by Lipase.- Effect of Dose of Xylanase on Bleachability of Sugarcane Bagasse Ethanol/Water Pulps.- CelF of Orpinomyces PC-2 has an Intron and Encodes a Cellulase (CelF) Containing a Carbohydrate-Binding Module.- Partition Behavior and Partial Purification of Hexokinase in Aqueous Two-Phase Polyethylene Glycol/Citrate Systems.- Effect of Aeration on Lignin Peroxidase Production by Streptomyces viridosporus T7A.- Evaluation of Supports and Methods for Immobilization of Enzyme Cyclodextringlycosyltransferase.- Active Nuclear Shuffling System Using a Swollen Conidium of Trichoderma reesei.- Session 7-Downstream Processing of Bioproducts.- to Session 7.- Phenylboronate-Chitosan Resins for Adsorption of ?-Amylase from Soybean Extracts.- Ester Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass.- Purification of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase from Baker's Yeast in Aqueous Two-Phase Systems with Free Triazine Dyes as Affinity Ligands.- Continuous Clavulanic Acid Adsorption Process.- Extraction of Nutraceuticals from Milk Thistle: I. Hot Water Extraction.- Extraction of Nutraceuticals from Milk Thistle: Part II. Extraction with Organic Solvents.- Effect of Lidocaine on Ovalbumin and Egg Albumin Foam Stability.- Estimation of Solubility Effect on the Herbicide Controlled-Release Kinetics from Lignin-Based Formulations.- Author Index.