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Each day more leaders from the global algae industry are signing up for the premier algae industry event! Don’t miss out on your chance to see, hear and meet the industry’s best and brightest at the Algae Biomass Summit. Friday Sept 5th is the last day that attendees can receive a guaranteed discount to save hundreds on rooms at the San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina.
This must-attend event is packed with presentations, posters, networking and exclusive-access tours that you won’t find anywhere else.
Reserve your room today and get the special discounted rate.
New Tour Added
The Summit includes exciting tours to see the algae industry in action. Visit facilities in the Imperial Valley or the famous La Jolla Biotech Mesa, and check out this latest addition!
Diversity and Commercial Potential of Algae – Lectures & Lab Tours at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Monday, September 29, 2014
For this lecture series and short tours Summit attendees will take a quick bus ride from the conference hotel to the world famous Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) located on beautiful La Jolla Bay. We’ll have coffee and tea, then attend morning lectures in Sumner Auditorium delivered by Scripps algae faculty and prominent guest scientists in town for the Summit. Lecture topics will focus on the “Diversity and Commercial Potential of Algae” theme, including organisms from marine, freshwater and waste water systems, macroalgae (seaweeds) and a whirlwind lecture on “Commercialization of Algae – Around the World in 30 minutes..!”
After the lectures enjoy a catered lunch and refreshments on the patio overlooking the Blue Pacific, explore posters that summarize the diverse research of UCSD and SIO students and postdoctoral scientists, and network with fellow participants and SIO algae researchers. Then, follow SIO graduate student docents on tours of algae research laboratories, culture collections, analytical laboratories and a “Walk-about” leisure tour of the SIO campus. We will board the bus at 3:00-3:15 pm to return to the hotel by about 3:30-4:00 pm in time for the opening events of the Algae Biomass Summit.
Register for the Summit today and add the Lectures & Lab Tours at Scripps Institution of Oceanography to your itinerary!
Today Poet-DSM announced the opening of a first-of-its kind cellulosic ethanol plant in Iowa, a facility that will use 770 tons of corn cobs, leaves and husks to produce up to 25 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year. Called Project Liberty, the facility is an enormous achievement for advanced biofuels.
The Algae Biomass Organization congratulates its member company, DSM, as well its its Poet-DSM venture and its partners who are leading the way in bringing the next generation of biofuels, regardless of feedstock, into commercial production.
The commercial production of cellulosic biofuels is an important milestone towards a more sustainable energy future, one that paves the way for the biobased economy of the future that will include fuels and other products from a universe of sustainable, domestically produced feedstocks, including algae.
The members of the ABO look forward to the day when competitive biofuels produced from a range of domestically produced feedstocks can displace fossil fuels, providing secure energy, jobs and a cleaner environment.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy intends to issue, on behalf of the Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), a funding opportunity announcement (FOA), “Targeted Algal Biofuels and Bioproducts.”
BETO’s 2019 projected state of technology for the cost of algal biofuels is modeled at about $7 per gallon gasoline gallon equivalent, without valuable co-products such as animal feed or commodity chemicals. This FOA seeks to improve the value proposition for algal biofuels by employing multi-disciplinary consortia to produce algae bioproduct precursors (alongside fuel components), as well as single-investigator or small-team technology development projects focused on crop protection and CO2 utilization technologies for improving biomass productivity. BETO hopes these strategies will enable a 30-50% cost reduction for algal biofuels.
The editors of a special issue of Technology magazine have issued a call for papers on both fundamental and applied issues in bioenergy that may be of interest to many algae researchers.
Technology is a new journal that aims to publish papers that are technology-driven and can be applied to a broad spectrum of problems. They will be reviewing a mixture of papers coming from academia and industrial research for this special issue.
ABO members and algae industry researchers who would like to learn more about submitting manuscripts before the November 1st deadline should check out the magazine’s official call for papers (PDF).
