NEXT EVENT
"HOPE OR HYPE? - What's next for biofuels?"
Monday, September 28, 2009, 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Roda Stage)
2015 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA 94704
Co-sponsor: Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC)
From the sun to your gas tank: A new breed of biofuels may help solve the global energy challenge and reduce the impact of fossil fuels on global warming. KTVU Channel 2 health and science editor John Fowler will moderate a panel of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists who are developing ways to convert the solar energy stored in plants into liquid fuels.
Jay Keasling is one of
the foremost authorities in the field of synthetic
biology. He is applying this research toward the
production of advanced
carbon-neutral biofuels that can replace
gasoline on a gallon-for-gallon basis.
Keasling is Berkeley Lab’s Acting Deputy Director and the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute.
Watch Jay Keasling give a definition of biofuels, from Berkeley Lab's Video Glossary:
Jim Bristow is deputy
director of programs for the U.S. Department of
Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a national user facility in Walnut
Creek, CA. He developed and implemented JGI’s Community Sequencing
Program, which provides large-scale DNA sequencing and analysis to advance genomics related to bioenergy and environmental characterization and cleanup.
Susanna Green Tringe is a computational biologist with the
U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI). She helped pioneer the field of metagenomics, a new strategy for isolating, sequencing,
and characterizing DNA extracted
directly from environmental samples, such as the contents of the termite gut, which yielded enzymes responsible for breakdown of wood into fuel.
