| Program | |
|---|---|
| 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM | Continental Breakfast (Provided by UMaine) |
| 9:00 AM to 9:45 AM | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ray W. Miller, Business Development Director, DuPont Overview of Biobased Materials" |
| 9:45 AM to 10:15 AM | Dr. Ray Fort, Prof. of Chemistry, University of Maine "Value Added Chemicals from Sugar Feedstocks" |
| 10:15 AM to 10:30 AM | Coffee Break (Coffee and Danish) |
| 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM | Dr. John Holladay, Pacific Northwest Laboratory "Value Added Chemicals from Lignin Feedstocks" |
| 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM | Dr. Adriaan van Heiningen. Prof. Chem. Eng., University of Maine "University of Maine Biorefining Concept" |
| 11:30 AM to Noon | Ken Laustsen, Maine Forest Service "Biomass Availability in New England" |
| 12:00 Noon to 1 PM | Lunch (Provided by UMaine) |
| 1:00 PM to 1:30 PM | Dr. Amy Cannon, Center for Green Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell "Bioinspired Materials for Commercial Applications" |
| 1:30 PM to 2:00 PM | Dr. Yvon Durant, Professor of Material Science, University of New Hampshire "Recent Developments on Polylactic acid" |
| 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM | Dr. Robert Weiss, Director, Polymer Program, University of Connecticut "Functional Polymers from Renewable Resources - Itaconic and Lactic Acid " |
| 2:30 PM to 3:00 PM | Dr. Tood Emerick, Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst "Recent Work on Polymers from Lignin" |
| 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM | Break (Coffee and Refreshments) |
| 3:30 PM to 4:00 PM | Dr. Sanjeeva Murthy, and Dr. Daniel Savin, University of Vermont "Crystallization and Adsorption Behavior in Bio-Derived Polymers" |
| 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM | Dr. Stanley Barnett and Dr. Brenton Deboef, University of Rhode Island "CO2: the True Renewable Resource" |
| 4:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Dr. Barbara Cole, Prof. of Chemistry, University of Maine "Extractive Constituents in Wood" |
| 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM | Spring Meeting of NEGCC (Open Forum) |
| 7 PM | Lobster Dinner. Locally or in Bar Harbor for those willing to drive about 70 minutes. At the expense of the participants. |