BIO Announces Breakout Program Speakers for Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology

2014 Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy WASHINGTON -- Sept. 19, 2014: Industrial biotechnology offers cleaner, safer processes and ingredients for developing consumer products. Commercialization of these innovative processes will be the focus of breakout sessions at the ninth annual Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy, to be held at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, December 7-9, 2014. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today announced the program of breakout sessions for the Summit.

Breakout sessions are organized into five tracks, with concurrent sessions and presentations on Monday December 8 and Tuesday December 9:

Feedstock Production and Utilization Renewable Chemical Platforms Advanced Biofuels and Biorefinery Platforms Synthetic Biology, Algae and Marine Biotechnology Technical and Research Presentations Breakout sessions, speakers and presentations focusing on commercialization of new industrial biotechnology for renewable chemicals and biofuels include:

The Pathway to Commercialization - Lessons Learned

Monday, Dec. 8 – 8:30 – 10:00am

Michael Krel, Sofinnova Partners Mark Burk, Genomatica Allen Barbieri, Biosynthetic Technologies Michael Leavell, Amyris Converting GHG’s to Achieving a Fuel and Climate Solution

Monday, Dec. 8 – 10:30am – 12:00pm

Richard Altman, Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative David Anton, Joule Josh Silverman, Calysta, Inc. Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan, South Dakota State University Leading Pre-Treatment Technologies for Production of Fuels, Chemicals, and Feed

Monday, Dec. 8 – 2:30 – 4:00pm

Charles Wyman, University of California Riverside Bruce Dale, Michigan State University Michael Ladisch, Purdue University Algae Testbeds: Models for Accelerating Commercialization

Tuesday, Dec. 9 – 2:00 – 3:30pm

Philip Pienkos, National Renewable Energy Laboratory John McGowen, Arizona State University Rene Wijffels, Wageningen University and Research Centre Kimberly Ogden, University of Arizona Hiroyuki Mochizuki, University of Tsukuba All programs at the Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy are open to attendance by credentialed members of the media.