Western's Research Park, Sarnia-Lambton Campus

We are very pleased to invite you to submit an abstract for oral presentation at the “First Canada-US Symposium on Microalgae for Bioenergy and Other Applications” (Submissions closed)

The purpose of this symposium is to bring together expertise from industry, government and academic research and present leading edge technologies and ideas around this very important and relevant topic. The registration is free but delegates need to make their own travel and hotel arrangement. We look forward to your participation.

Please Register by email

Registration is free, but register soon as space is limited. To register and submit your abstract, please complete the Registration and Abstract form and please e-mail :

algconf2010@uwo.ca

We are looking forward to seeing you on June 14, 2010. Deadline:

List of Participants: Companies: Pondbiofuels (Ontario), AlgaXperts LLC (Chicago) Universities: Waterloo, Western Ontario, Toronto, Guelph, Ottawa, Michigan State University, Wayne State; Government Organizations: NRCan, OMAFRA, Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada, MITACS, OCE.

Program:

Agenda	Time	Topic	Speaker
1	8:00-8:20AM	Opening: Welcome from Don Hewson, Director, Research Park and meeting organizers	Don Hewson, Grant Allen, Wei Liao, Suzy Liu, Amarjeet Bassi
2	8:20-9:00 AM	Pond Biofuels Overview and Directions	Max Kolesnik, Pond Biofuels
3	9:00-9:30 AM	Microalgae: A Versatile Source of Energy and Valuable Products from Carbon Dioxide	Professor Wan K.Wan University of Western Ontario
4	9:30-10:00 AM	Integrating Algae Cultivation Into Wastewater Treatment	Mr. Jun Yoshitani, Algxperts, Chicago
	10:00 -10:30 AM	Coffee
5	10:30-11:00 AM	Culture of Microalgae Chlorella Minutissima for Biofuels Feedstock	Haiying Tang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor-Research National Biofuels Energy Lab Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Wayne State University
6	11:00-11:30 AM	Uniform Static Magnetic Fields Increase Biomass Production and Nutritional Quality of Haematococcus and Chlorella	Darcy Small, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario
7	11:30-12:00 PM	Integrated anaerobic digestion/algal cultivation system for value added energy/chemical production	Prof. Wei Liao, Michigan State University
	12:00-1:00 PM	Lunch
8	1:00-1:30 PM	Transgenic Microalgae for Thermophilic alpha-amylase Production	Prof. Suzy Liu, Michigan State University
9	1:30-2:00 PM	Adhesion and Growth of Microalgae: Development of a Biofilm Photobioreactor	Tyler Irving and Grant Allen, University of Toronto
10	2:00-2:30 PM	The Potential of Neochloris oleoabundans for Recycling CO2 to Biofuels	Prof. Chris Lan, University of Ottawa
11	2:30-3:00 PM	Investigation of Lipid and Biodiesel Production from Chlorella vulgaris (UTEX 2714) Microalgae Cultured in Photo Bioreactors (PBRs)	Gureet Chandok, Shaikh Razzak, Peter Schnurr, Amarjeet Bassi , University of Western Ontario
12	3:00-3:30 PM	Coffee
	3:30-5:30 PM	Panel/Workshop: Challenges and Opportunities for Micro-algal Technologies	All + invited
	5:30-6:30 PM	Dinner

Sponsored by the following: The University of Western Ontario; Faculty of Engineering, UWO; Sarnia Lambton Economic Partnership; The Research Park (UWO), London, Ontario.