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November 18, 2011

8th Bi-Annual BioCar Research Meeting and Advisory Panel Meeting

The Ontario BioCar Initiative will hold a research meeting on November 18, 2011 at the University of Windsor, CAW Students Centre, CAW Ambassador Room

CAW Students Centre (Interactive map)

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AGENDA
9:00 am Light Breakfast and Poster Set-Up
9:45 am

Welcome Remarks 
  Roman Maev, University of Windsor
9:50 am Research Presentations (12+3 min each)
University of Windsor
  1. Kazik Czubernat & Keivan Amini: Mechanical performance of energy absorbing biofoams and polyurethane foams
  2. Jeff Sadler: Theoretical Modeling of the Acoustical Properties of Biocomposite Materials
University of Guelph
  1. Singaravelu Vivekanandhan: Carbon Fibre Reinforced Bioplastics: A New Direction for Automotive
  2. Harekrishna Deka: Renewable Resource Based Poly(furfuryl alcohol) Composites for Structural Application
  3. Claudio Toro: Microlagae As Sustainable Biomass For Production Of Bioproducts And Biofuels For Transportation
Amy McNaughton: Evaluation of genes encoding the enzymes of the Kennedy Pathway in soybeans (Glycine max (L.) Merr) with altered fatty acid profiles
11:30 noon Lunch and Poster Judging
1:00 pm

Invited Speaker

  Nathan Armstrong, President, Motive Industries Inc.
          “Rethinking the Auto Industry for the New Millennia”
1:30 pm

Research presentations – continued (12+3 min each)

University of Guelph
  1. Yarmilla Reinprecht: Soybean and corn fibre composites
University of Waterloo
  1. Rachel Campbell: Field Trial of Corn Silage Retting as a Biological Fibre Extraction Technique
  2. Barbara Guettler: Soy-Polypropylene Biocomposites for Automotive Applications
  3. Ryan Park: Renewable Polyethylene-Wheat Straw for Automotive Parts
2:30 pm Coffee Break and Poster Removal
2:45 pm Poster Awards Announcement
2:50 pm

Research presentations – continued (12+3 min each)

University of Toronto
  1. Vibha Tyagi: Fungal Protein Identification for Biopolymer Production
  2. Shima Khoshraftar: Sequencing and annotation of an industrially important fungus
  3. Arturo Rodriguez: Protein Modified Polysaccharide Polyester Composites: Production and Applications
  4. Subrata Ghosh: Synthesis of polyol from genetically modified soybean oil using a newly developed two-step continuous process
3:50 pm

Closing Remarks
  Roman Maev and all PIs, University of Windsor
4:10 pm General Meeting Adjourns

 

Full Meeting agenda available HERE [388KB]

invited speaker:
Nathan Armstrong, President of Motive Industries Inc.

posted: 2011.11.17

 

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