Monday

Opening Remarks

Session I:
Applications: Commodity, Specialty Polymer & Chemicals

Session II:
Applications: Medical

Tuesday

Session III:
Physical, Chemical and Structural Characterization of PHAs
 

Session IV:
Biodegredation of Polyesters

Wednesday

Session V:
Microbial Physiology and Ecology of Polyester Formation

Session VI

Thursday

Session VII:
Metabolic Engineering in Bacteria

Session VIII:
PHA Production in Plants

Friday

Conference Hall open for informal meetings and discussion.

ISBP2000 Program

September 11-15, 2000 Cambridge, Massachusetts

Title and Speaker TBD

Chairs: C. Christenson, DOW Corporation and P. Gruber, Cargill DOW

* = confirmed participant

Tentative Titles

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DOW Corporation

A Molecular Architectural View on the Polyhydroxyalkanoates

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Cargill DOW

NatureWorks PLA

*

Metabolix

Polyhydroxyalkanoates as Novel Binders for Ceramic and Metal Powders

Clarkson University

PHA-Ethylene Oxide Diblock Polymers

*

CSK

Modification and Applications of PHAs

Chair: D. Martin, Tepha

*

Tepha

PHAs: Versatile Absorbable Polyesters for Medical Applications

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Children's Hospital, Boston

Tissue Engineering of Heart Valves

TBA

Chair: D. Seebach, ETH Zürich

*

ETH Zürich

Secondary Structures of Oligo-(Hydroxyalkanoates) and of their NH-Analogs, the Beta-Peptides

*

The Procter & Gamble Company

Physical Properties and Deformation Behavior of Poly(hydroxyalkanoate) Copolymers

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University of Minnesota

Characterization of PHA Microstructures in Polymer Films and in Native Granules

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RIKEN Institute

Insight into the Microstructures of in vivo PHA Inclusions

*

McGill University

Computer Simulation of in vitro Formation of PHB Granules: Particulate Polymerization

Chair: D. Jendrossek, Universität Stuttgart Institut für Mikrobiologie

*

Universität Stuttgart

Novel PHB Depolymerase Activities

*

RIKEN Institute

Atomic Force Microscopy Visualization of Lamellar Crystal Morphology for Melt-Crystallized Poly(ethylene succinate) Ultrathin Film Before and After Enzymatic Degradation

*

Gyeongsang National University

Kinetic Analysis of PHA-Inclusion Degradation in Bacteria

*

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Crystal Growth and Enzymatic Degradation of Thin Films for Poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-10mol%-6-hydroxyhexanoate]

Chair: S. Goodwin, University of Massachusetts Amherst

*

K.U. Leuven

Regulation of Poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) Biosynthesis by Ammonium in Azospirillium brasilense Sp7

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RIKEN Institute

Paracoccus denitrification PhaR Binds to a Short DNA Region Located Upstream of the Phasin Gene and Regulates its Expression in vitro

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Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas do Estado de Sãu Paulo

P3HB and P3HB-co-3HV Production by Burkholderia and Other Bacterial Strains Isolated in Brazil

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Universität Münster

Polyhydroxybutyrate Production by a Newly Isolated, Extremely Halophilic Archaebacterium and Analysis of the Respective Granule-Bound Polyhydroxybutyrate Synthase

Tsinghua University

Bacterial Synthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoates is Substrate Dependent

Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas do Estado de Sãu Paulo

TBA

Chairs: G. York, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and B. Witholt, ETH Zürich

*

ETH Zürich

What More Do We Want to Know About PHA Synthesis and How Will That Help Us?

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mechanistic Paradigm for Class I and Class III PHA Synthases

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University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Characterization of the Polyhydroxybutyrate Synthase from Ralstonia eutropha

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Hokkaido University

In vitro PHA Synthesis with Co-A Recycling and ATP Regeneration

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Analysis of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Synthesis in vivo in Ralstonia eutropha phaC PHA Synthase and phaP Phasin Gene Replacement Strains

Chairs: F. Skraly, Metabolix and A. Steinbüchel, Universität Münster

*

Universität Münster

In vivo and in vitro Engineering of PHA Biosynthesis Pathways

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RIKEN Institute

Metabolic Engineering for the Microbial Production of Novel Copolyesters of 3-hydroxybutyrate and 3-hydroxyalkanoates (C6-C12)

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KAIST

Production of SCL-MCL Copolymer PHAs by Wild Type and Recombinant Bacteria

*

University of California, Berkeley

Metabolic Engineering of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) Production in Recombinant Salmonella typhimurium

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The Procter & Gamble Company

Production of C3/C4/C6/C8 PHA Copolymer in Native Ralstonia eutropha

Chairs: K. Snell, Metabolix and V. Mittendorf, BASF

*

Université de Lausanne

Synthesis of PHAs in Plants: Past, Present, and Future

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Max Planck Institute

PHB Production in Arabidopsis, Tobacco, and Potato

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Universität München

Production of Polyhydroxybutyric Acid (PHB) Using Chloroplast Transformation

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BASF

Diversion of Plastidial Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Intermediates for _MCLPHA Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis

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UFZ Centre for Environmental Research

Biopolymer Production with Transgenic Yeast?

Chair: R. Marchessault, McGill University

*

Universität Münster

Biosynthesis of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-mercaptopropionate) as a Representitive of a Novel Class of biopolymers: Polythioesters

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ETH Zürich

Synthesis of Fluorine- and Fluorescence Labeled Oligo[(R)-3-hydroxybutanoic acids] (OHB) for Structural Investigations

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Valérie Langlois

Université Paris

Preparation of Bacterial Polyesters with Carboxylic Acid End Groups in Side Chains

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University of Minnesota

Design and Biosynthesis of Nanostructured Polyhydroxyalkanoates

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Maxygen

Exploring Metabolic Space by Directed Evolution

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Sangamo BioSciences, Inc.

Engineered Transcription Factors for Metabolic Engineering

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Challenges and Opportunities with PHAs

Chair: F. Skraly, Metabolix

ISBP2000 Schedule