[Fornlist] lunch/lecture by Brian Davison, "Bioenergy Science Center at ORNL" @1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike

[Bob Costner]

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Greetings, Friends. Please join us for another interesting and certainly
very salient and topical program: 

March 19 2008 Friends of ORNL Lunch/Lecture
"Bioenergy Science Center at ORNL"
Brian H. Davison, Chief Scientist for Systems Biology and Biotechnology, ORNL


Abstract: 
Funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the DOE Bioenergy Science Center is
located on the ORNL campus in a new facility funded by the state and owned by the University
of Tennessee. The center will employ the interdisciplinary expertise of the team's partners in
biology, engineering and agricultural science and commercialization to develop processes for
converting plants including switchgrass and poplar trees into fuels. Dr. Davison will discuss the
center's mission, funding, organization and staffing, and scope of the center's research activities.

Wed. 19 March 2008: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike see directions below

Speaker's bio below.

Lunch by the Soup Kitchen will be $7.00 and includes at least 2 choices of
hot soup, choice of sandwich, pickle, chips, choice of iced tea or hot coffee,
and choice of dessert.

As always, registered professional engineers who attend shall receive
one (1) PDH certificate. 

NOTICE - NOTICE

Members wishing to submit renewal dues by mail
can make a check for $20.00 payable to FORNL
and mail it to:

Treasurer, Friends of ORNL
214 Park Lane
Oliver Springs, TN 37840

Non-members who wish to join should also mail a 
check for $20.00 payable to FORNL and mail it to
the same address. [Note that the dues cover the
fiscal year starting on October 1 of each year.]
Non-members should also submit the following information:

    Name
    Mailing address
    e-mail address (if applicable)

NOTICE - NOTICE

MONTHLY AGENDA:

11:00 am Socializing and coffee 
11:30 am Lunch served 
11:50 am Annual Meeting
12:00 noon Lecture begins 
12:45 pm Q&A 
1:00 pm Adjourn

HEADS UP: 
April 16 - - Virginia Dale will speak on Mt. St. Helen Recovery

DIRECTIONS TO MEETING LOCATION

Our meeting location is the white-colored
building at 1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike (State Highway 95)
between Taco Bell and Applebee's
at the intersection of the Turnpike and
Rutgers Ave (at Traffic Light #7).

At the south-west corner of the white-colored building
there is an entrance with a canopy.
Caution - - there is an additional entrance with
a canopy close by - - the entrance we use is that
closest to the Jameson Inn. The glass door is identified as
"The University of Tennessee - University Outreach & 
Continuing Education."

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Brian H. Davison is the Chief Scientist for Systems Biology and Biotechnology at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California
Institute of Technology, and his B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering, from the University of
Rochester. He recently served two years as the Director of Life Sciences Division and was
previously a Distinguished Researcher & BioChemical Engineering Research Group leader. In
his twenty-one years at ORNL he has performed biotechnology research in variety of areas
including bioconversion of renewable resources (ethanol, organic acids, solvents), non-aqueous
biocatalysis, systems analysis of microbes (cultivation and proteomics), biofiltration of vocs,
mixed cultures, immobilization of microbes and enzymes, metal biosorption, and extractive
fermentations. He has published over 90 publications and holds six patents. He led a multilab
team which received an R&D100 Award for "Production of Chemicals from Biologically
Derived Succinic Acid," in 1997. 

- 
Robert Costner
http://www.fornl.org