May 18 Thursday evening:

6:00 pm Reception, Hilton Plaza Hotel
Travis Room A

Evening Meal, Travis Room B

Keynote Presentation – "Spores of Clostridium"
J. R. Walker, University of Texas at Austin, USA Sponsored by the
Dr. Thomas J. and Jane A. Vanzant Lectureship

May 19 Friday morning: Transport from hotel to Duncan Hall, Rice University via hotel van, the vans are scheduled to leave at the times below.

8:00 am
8:15 am
8:30 am
8:45 am

Light breakfast items available in central hall at 8:15 am

9:00 am Opening remarks
G. Bennett, Rice University, USA

9:10 am Clostridial enzymes and pathways
E. T Papoutsakis, Northwestern University, USA
Session chair

9:10 am “Oxidative stress response in Clostridium acetobutylicum: the rubrerythrin-like general stress protein Hsp21 and desulfoferrodoxin, a superoxide-reductase”
H. Bahl, Universität Rostok, Germany

9:35 am “The shift from acid to solvent formation in Clostridium acetobutylicum: regulation of phosphate dependent genes, proteome analysis, granulose synthesis, and sporulation”
R. Fischer, Universität Rostok, Germany

10:00 am “Heterologous expression of algal Fe-only hydrogenase in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC824”
G. von Abendroth, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

10:25 am Break – light refreshments in the central hall

10:50 am Clostridial pathways and regulation
H. Blaschek, University of Illinois, USA
Session chair

10:50 am “What's new with sugar uptake?”
W. Mitchell, Heriot-Watt University, UK

11:10 am “Regulation of PTS gene systems in clostridia”
M Tangney, Napier University, UK

11:30 am “Reiteration of gene clusters in Clostridium beijerinckii”
J. S. Chen, Virginia Tech, USA

11:50 am “Genome-scale transcriptional analysis in Clostridium acetobutylicum”
E. T. Papoutsakis, Northwestern University, USA

May 19 Friday afternoon:
Group photograph

12:30 pm Lunch in Keck Hall

2:10 pm Depart to NASA

3:00 pm Tour of NASA by NASA staff

5:00 pm Appetizers and Dinner at the Flying Dutchman, Kemah, TX

Return to hotel

May 20 Saturday morning: Transport from hotel to Duncan Hall, Rice University via hotel van, the vans are scheduled to leave at the times below.

8:00 am
8:15 am
8:30 am
8:45 am

Light breakfast items available in central hall at 8:15 am

9:00 am Clostridial genetics
J. S. Chen, Virginia Tech, USA
Session chair

9:00 am “Research on genetic technology in Clostridium acetobutylicum”
L. Sullivan, Rice University, USA

9:25 am “Gene knock-out in Clostridium”
N. Minton, University of Nottingham, UK

9:50 am “Phylogenetic analysis of Clostridium botulinum by Multi Locus Sequence Typing”
E. Johnson, University of Wisconsin, USA

10:15 am
Break – light refreshments in the central hall

10:40 am Clostridial genetics and regulation
W. Mitchell, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Session chair

10:40 am “Clostridium beijerinckii 8052 DNA sequence analysis and use of distillers grains as a potential substrate for ABE production. ”
H. Blaschek, University of Illinois, USA

11:05 am “Characterization of prophage elements in the chromosomes of Clostridium beijerinckii strains that encode inducible defective phage-like killer particles”
D. T. Jones, University of Otago, New Zealand

11:30 am Lunch in Duncan Hall

Duncan Hall
May 20 Saturday afternoon:

1:00 pm Clostridial fermentations
N. Qureshi, USDA-ARS-NCAUR, USA
Session chair

1:00 pm “Metabolic engineering of the thermophilic bacterium Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum JW/SL-YS485 for ethanol production”
J. Shaw, Dartmouth College, USA

1:20 pm “Metabolic engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum for the production of 1, 3 propanediol”
P. Soucaille, METabolic EXplorer S.A., France

1:40 pm “Closed-loop acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation”
A. Lopez-Contreras, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

2:00 pm Break – light refreshments in the central hall

2:25 pm Clostridial production of solvents
I. Maddox, Massey University, New Zealand
Session chair

2:25 pm “Clostridia for solvent production from lignocellulosics”
W. Schwarz, Technische Universität München, Germany

2:45 pm “Production of acetone butanol (AB) from Agricultural residues using Clostridium acetobutylicum in batch reactors coupled with product recovery”
N. Qureshi, USDA-ARS-NCAUR, USA

3:05 pm “High efficient butanol production system using non-growing cells”
Y. Tashiro, Saga University, Japan

3:30 pm “Commercialization of clostridial fermentations”
Panel Discussion – H. Blaschek, University of Illinois, USA
Moderator

4:10 pm Break – light refreshments in the central hall

4:20 pm Poster session Sponsored by USDA ARS

6:30 pm Depart by bus to Churrascos, Houston, TX

Evening Meal

Final Remarks, and passing the flag to Clostridium X host

Transport back to hotel

May 21 Sunday morning: Departure from hotel