Seminar Schedule - All Graduate Students Expected to Attend Date Seminar January 11 Seminar Organizational Meeting January 18 MLK Day - No Seminar January 25 Antonio Santos Sugarcane Bagasse Hydrolysis Enhancement Using BSA POTR B50 February 1 Studie Red Corn Carbohydrate Resources from Waste Activated Sludge February 8 Seockmo Ku Acceleration of Sample Preparation for Rapid Pathogen Detection from Foods February 15 Amanda Kreger Kinetics of Maleic Acid-Aluminum Catalyst Formation February 22 Julia Burchell Enzymatic Epoxidation of Soybean Oil POTR B50 February 29 Mahdieh Aghazadeh Enhancing Bioethanol Fermentation Through Inhibitor Removal March 7 Neal Hengge Liquefaction of Unpretreated Corn Stover March 14 Spring Break March 21 Daehwan Kim Production of Cellulosic Ethanol from Corn Pericarp March 28 Leyu Zhang Adsorption Characteristics of Enzymes on Lignocellulosic Material by Liquid Chromatography POTR B50 April 4 Sidnei Bordignon Enhanced Sugarcane Bagasse Conversion to Sugars by Ozonolysis and Liquid Hot Water Pretreatments April 11 Rafaela Inês de Souza Ladeira Àzar Effect of Lignin on Enzymatic Saccharification of Natural and Bred Sugarcane Bagasse April 18 Emma Brace Enhanced Bioseparations through Molecular Modeling with COSMO-RS Iman Beheshti Hydroxyl Radical Oxidation of Cellulose Using Phenolic Catalyzed Ozone Reactions April 25 No Seminar Symposium for Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals