Title:Production of Biomass Hydrolysate and Bioethanol

Presenter: Yaoping Zhang, Ph. D,Senior Scientist

University: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Time: 10:00-11:00, 17 August, 2011

Venue: A203, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Abstract: 1). Brief overview of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and biofuel production. 2). Production of hydrolysate from AFEX-pretreated corn stover. 3). Bioethanol produced from cellulosic biomass by engineered microbes: E. coli and and Saccharomyces cerevisiae as model strains.