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SBE's Bioenergy Symposium
SBE’s Bioenergy Symposum brought together four authors of the America’s Energy Future Panel Report on Alternative Liquid Transportation Fuels at the 2009 Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN to explore the technological status, costs, and environmental impacts of coal and biomass conversion. You can download their slides here.Read More
Biotechnology Progress. Keep up with advances in biological engineering
Biotechnology Progress, SBE’s official publication, delivers peer-reviewed research reports, reviews, and descriptions of emerging techniques for the development and design of new processes, products, and devices for the fast-evolving biotechnology and bioprocessing industries.Read More
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SBE Spotlight
Register now for SBE's September Webinar featuring Dr. Ogden of University of ArizonaTuesday, September 28, 2010 at 2pm EDT. Professor Ogden will provide an overview of the cultivation testbeds, harvesting technology development, modeling, and potential coproducts of algae in its use in bioproducts and biofuels.
Biology for Chemical Engineers -- a short course at Annual by Dr. Michael AmosNovember 7, 2010 8am-5pm in Salt Lake City, UT. Dr. Mike Amost of CSTL/NIST will teach a course designed to inform you about basic biology, biotechnology and pathology - all the essential elements to understand how biotechnologists come up with product ideas. This course provides enough background to appeal to the novice biologist while bringing new research methods to the practicing engineer.
James E. Bailey Award LectureSBE is proud to announce the recipient of its James E. Bailey Award, Professor Harvey Blanch of UC Berkeley for his research and advancements in transport, kinetics, and thermodynamics in enzymatic and microbial processes. Professor Blanch will give his award lecture at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Annual meeting on Tuesday, November 9th at 6pm. The title of his talk is "Evolving Biological Engineering."
George Washington Carver Award for Innovation in Industrial BiotechnologyProfessor Gregory Stephanopoulos, the chair of the Managing Board of SBE and Willard Henry Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, is the 2010 recipient of the George Washington Carver Award for Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology. Professor Stephanopoulos is recognized as a pioneer in metabolic engineering and is currently working on microbes that will be able to produce oil and biodiesel in a cost-effective manner.
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Call for Papers: SBE's 3rd International Conference on Biomolecular EngineeringThe SBE's 3rd International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering on January 16-19, 2011 in San Francisco, CA. Chairing the conference are Jeff Varner of Cornell University and Kurt Deshayes of Genentech.
2011 SBE Membership RenewalRenew your yearly membership for 2011.