March 2013 - LORRE-list - ecn.purdue.edu

LORRE March Safety Update
by Xingya Liu 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

LORRE March Safety Issues To All, Here are some updates from the LORRE Safety Committee: 1. The Purdue University will be performing a Tornado Drill on March 27^th , please be aware of this and make sure we follow the correct preparedness procedures. Please also note the attached Severe Weather Memo published by Purdue. 2. We would like to recognize the groups of students who are working in the LORRE labs on the Corn & Soybean competition for their excellent use of Personal Protective Equipment while working in on their experiments. We would like for everyone to use them as an example. The students' names are: Degerhan Deger, Keun-il Kim, Mitch French, Ben Lins, Hannah Doren, and Anbo Wang 3. Please remember that it is mandatory for all new people in the lab to go through basic LORRE Safety Training before beginning work in the labs. Come to room 333 to complete this training. 4. Lastly, we would like to begin planning the Safety Retraining for the 2013 summer and we will discuss this more in depth at a later group meeting.

1 0

Seminar Announcement
by Mosier, Nathan S 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Seminar Announcement WHISTLER CENTER FOR CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SCIENCE sponsored lecture: "Plants to Plastics" Atanu Biswas Lead Scientist, NCAUR/USDA Peoria, IL Friday, March 29, 2013 1:30 p.m. Morgan Conference Room FS2187 NLSN (Food Science Building) As we are located in the Corn Belt, our goal has always been to enhance the utilization of corn. Dr. Biswas will talk about research at NCAUR dealing with expanded uses of the components of corn, such as starch, protein, fiber, and oil. Past and ongoing research work includes chemical and enzymatic modifications of renewable resources to produce new biobased materials and value-added products. A particular emphasis is to develop new, green synthetic methodologies through microwave, ionic liquid, and solvent-less processes. Atanu Biswas is a Lead Scientist with USDA at Peoria, IL. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. After a postdoctoral stay at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA he went to Hercules Incorporated where he worked for 14 years and had 6 patents and one paper. Ten years ago he joined USDA where he has published over 60 papers and one patent thus far. His research deals with green chemistry, polysaccharides, and vegetable oils. A recent focus has been the chemical and enzymatic modifications of renewable resources to produce value-added products. His research emphasizes creativity, collaboration and team work in developing new bio-based materials from starches and proteins using various chemical, physical and biochemical processes to create new market opportunities for agricultural products, and for usage in formulations of adhesives, bio-based plastics, coatings, films, hydrogels, and absorbents.

1 0

LORRE Update March 18, 2013
by Mosier, Nathan S 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

Autoclave If you have not be retrained on the new shutdown procedure for the Autoclave, please see Linda or Rick for training! Please do not power-down the autoclave at the end of the day. You must place it in "standby mode" before shutting down the boiler. Seminar Schedule Next Seminar: March 29th, Chia-Ling Wu. All LORRE graduate students are expected to attend. Systems Biology Analysis and Comparison between Two Glucose/Xylose CoFermenting Yeasts Under Inhibition by Acetic Acid Schedule for The Spring Semester Date Location Seminar January 18 Fu Room Titles and Abstracts February 1 Fu Room Isaac Emery February 15 Fu Room Xuan Li March 1 ADM Building Graduate Student Poster Symposium March 29 Fu Room Chia-Ling Wu April 12 Fu Room Mahdieh Aghazadeh April 26 Fu Room Barron Hewetson

1 0