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Events Calendar

Plant Bio-Industrial Oils Symposium & Workshop
Presentations

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Tuesday, March 15 - 9:45 a.m.

Sten Stymne
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
“Novel enzymatic reactions in lipid metabolism and their relation to the accumulation of unusual fatty acids in the triacyglycerols.”


Tuesday, March 15 - 11:00 a.m.

Kurtis Miller
Cargill Industrial Oils and Lubricants
“Commercialization of Bio-Based Industrial Products (Transformer fluid).”


Tuesday, March 15 - 11:45 a.m.

John Ohlrogge
Michigan State University
“Toward Biofactories: A New Age of Industrial Crops.”


Tuesday, March 15 - 2:00 p.m.

L. Frank Flora
United States Department of Agriculture
“Industrial Plant-Based Oils Research Supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”


Tuesday, March 15 - 2:45 p.m.

George Poppe
Archer Daniels Midland
“Designing a Sustainable Future: New Industrial Products Derived from Vegetable Oils.”


Tuesday, March 15 - 4:00 p.m.

Duane Johnson
University of Montana
“Potential Crops and Oils for Production of Bio-Lubricants.”


Wednesday, March 16 - 8:45 a.m.

Peter McVetty
University of Manitoba
“The NSERC/BUNGE/MCGA Industrial Research Chair in High Erucic Acid Rapeseed Research and Development at the University of Manitoba .”


Wednesday, March 16 - 9:05 a.m.

David Taylor
National Research Council Plant Biotechnology Institute
“Engineering of Seed Oils Enriched in Erucic Acid as a Bio-Industrial Feedstock.”


Wednesday, March 16 - 9:25 a.m.

Ian Davie
International Group Inc.
“Plant Bio-Industrial Wax Potential.”


Wednesday, March 16 - 10:30 a.m.

Martin Reaney
University of Saskatchewan
“Industrial Platform Crops.”


Wednesday, March 16 - 10:50 a.m.

Kevin Falk
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
“Bio-Platfom Crucifiers.”


Wednesday, March 16 - 11:10 a.m.

Randy Weselake
University of Alberta
“Engineering of Seed Oil Content for Industrial Uses.”


Wednesday, March 16 - 11:30 a.m.

Suresh Narine
Alberta BioPlastics Network
“Seeds of Change: The Growing Trend of Producing Boidegradable Polymers from Oilseed Crops.”


Wednesday, March 16 - 1:30 p.m.

Greg Penner
Soy 20/20
Ontario Perspective on Industrial Uses of Vegetable Oil.”


Wednesday, March 16 - 1:50 p.m.

Don Smith
Green Crop Network/McGill University
“Biofuels and the Green Crop Network.”


Wednesday, March 16 - 2:10 p.m.

Jack Grushcow
Linnaeus Plant Sciences Inc.
“New Opportunities in Oil Seed Engineering.”


Wednesday, March 16 - 2:30 p.m.

Scott Duguid
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
“Flax Production and Breeding in Canada : Overview.”


Attendees List

The attendees list is available in Microsoft Excel (.xls) format. Microsoft Excel must be installed on your computer in order to view this list.

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Symposium & Workshop Attendees List
Microsoft Excel format.


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