<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear All,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This Friday we have David Ando to give a seminar on biofuels. David is a PhD graduate from UC Merced (Ajay's group), and is enjoying his postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Please let me know if you or your students are interested in meeting with him. His talk is at 10:30am, COB 267, this Friday.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Title: What are second generation biofuels, and how can we make them?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Abstract: The Joint BioEnergy Institute is focused on developing advanced second generation biofuels which can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels while providing significant environmental benefits in the form of reduced global dependence on crude oil and minimizing CO2 production. Our goal is to apply whole cell models and other modeling techniques to assist metabolic engineering efforts in fatty acid-derived biofuel production. Our analysis can provide insights into cellular metabolism required for systematic genetic engineering efforts. We are also developing CRISPR based tools to reengineer the E. coli genome at scale.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Bio: David Ando was a graduate student at UC Merced and has a Ph.D in Physics. He is now a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">9:45 -10:30am</div><div dir="ltr">10:30 - noon Talk, COB 267</div><div dir="ltr">noon - 1:30 pm Lunch</div><div dir="ltr">1:30 - 2:00 pm</div><div dir="ltr">2:00 - 2:30 pm</div><div dir="ltr">2:30 - 3:00 pm</div><div dir="ltr">3:00 - 3:30 pm</div><div dir="ltr">3:30 - 4:00 pm</div><div dir="ltr">4:00 - 4:30 pm</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><span class="gmail-m_-3892047399102861431m_2768726246313445020HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail-m_-3892047399102861431m_2768726246313445020m_1960914721191110465gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Jing Xu<br>Assistant Professor <br>Physics, UC Merced <br><a href="http://xulab.ucmerced.edu" target="_blank">xulab.ucmerced.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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