Current Meetings
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)
building #34 on the campus map [220KB]
AGENDA
9:00 am Light Breakfast and Poster Set-Up 9:45 am Welcome Remarks
Roman Maev, University of Windsor9:50 am Research Presentations (12+3 min each) University of Windsor
- Kazik Czubernat & Keivan Amini: Mechanical performance of energy absorbing biofoams and polyurethane foams
- Jeff Sadler: Theoretical Modeling of the Acoustical Properties of Biocomposite Materials
University of Guelph
Amy McNaughton: Evaluation of genes encoding the enzymes of the Kennedy Pathway in soybeans (Glycine max (L.) Merr) with altered fatty acid profiles
- Singaravelu Vivekanandhan: Carbon Fibre Reinforced Bioplastics: A New Direction for Automotive
- Harekrishna Deka: Renewable Resource Based Poly(furfuryl alcohol) Composites for Structural Application
- Claudio Toro: Microlagae As Sustainable Biomass For Production Of Bioproducts And Biofuels For Transportation
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
- Yarmilla Reinprecht: Soybean and corn fibre composites
University of Waterloo
- Rachel Campbell: Field Trial of Corn Silage Retting as a Biological Fibre Extraction Technique
- Barbara Guettler: Soy-Polypropylene Biocomposites for Automotive Applications
- 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
- Vibha Tyagi: Fungal Protein Identification for Biopolymer Production
- Shima Khoshraftar: Sequencing and annotation of an industrially important fungus
- Arturo Rodriguez: Protein Modified Polysaccharide Polyester Composites: Production and Applications
- 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 Windsor4:10 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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