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Douglas A. Landis
Professor of Entomology, Center for Integrated Plant Systems, Michigan State University
Focus Area: Development of a Sustainable Bioenergy Economy
Landis is an expert on insect ecology and use of predators and parasitoids to enhance biological control of pests. His goal is to understand how different biofuels production systems may impact ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. His research examines the biodiversity responses of arthropod communities to biofuel production and the implications for the system sustainablity.

Mary S. Lipton
Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Focus Area: Enabling Technologies
Lipton is a senior scientist in systems biology, specializing in mass spectrometry and ultra sensitive approaches for globally and quantitatively monitoring gene product expression at the protein level.

Christos T. Maravelias
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW-Madison
Focus Area: Enabling Technologies
The objective of our research is to develop theory, models and algorithms for the solution of important and fundamental problems in the area of Process Systems Engineering. To address these problems we primarily use optimization techniques, as well as other tools such as simulation and control theory. Our goal within Enabling Technologies is the development of methods for the integration of metabolic and regulatory models that will enable us to better predict cellular behavior

John Markley
Steenbock Professor of Biomolecular StructureProfessor of Biochemistry, UW-Madison
Focus Area: Enabling Technologies
Markley leads the Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics and the National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison. He has been a pioneer in the application of stable isotope labeling for structure-function investigations of biomacromolecules by NMR spectroscopy. He and his group have developed rapid and robust NMR methods for identifying and quantifying compounds present in complex mixtures, and they have developed bioinformatics resources for metabolomics available from the NMRFAM and BMRB websites. The Sesame laboratory information management system (LIMS) was developed in his laboratory.

David Mead
President and CEO, Lucigen Corp.
Focus Area: Biomass Processing
Mead founded Lucigen in 1998, after 20 years of experience in industrial R&D, sales and management at Bio-Rad, Promega, Molecular Biology Resources, Key Scientific and Chimerx. He has developed more than 30 commercially successful products used widely in biological research.

Paul Meier
Associate Scientist, Engineering PhysicsDirector, UW-Madison Energy Institute, UW-Madison
Focus Area: Development of a Sustainable Bioenergy Economy
Meier is an environmental engineer who specializes in full life-cycle assessment of energy systems to evaluate economic feasibility, greenhouse gas emission, and the impacts of policy. Meier has authored multiple long-term resource planning models which uniquely account for net benefits from both supply-side and end-use technology investments.

John Ohlrogge
Professor of Plant Biology, Michigan State University
Focus Area: Improved Plant Biomass
Ohlrogge is an expert in plant oils, which are the most energy-rich biomass available from plants. While oils have twice the energy content of carbohydrates and need little energy to extract and convert the oil to fuels, the challenge is yield. Ohlrogge’s lab has made advances in understanding the how plants create oils. The goal: oilseed plants suitable for large-scale biofuel production.

Markus Pauly
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University
Focus Area: Improved Plant Biomass
Pauly is an expert on plant cell wall polysaccharide analysis, in particular the hemicelluloses. The goal of his research is understanding the regulation of wall polysaccharide biosynthesis on a molecular level. Such knowledge will help us to tailor lignocellulosic materials derived from bioenergy crops with improved biomass degradability and high sugar yields. In addition, Pauly is involved in a team to establish highthroughput analytical platforms to assess plant biomass.

Wilfred “Mac” Post
Senior Research Scientist, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Focus Area: Development of a Sustainable Bioenergy Economy
Post develops models of terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycling and relationships of ecosystem dynamics to environmental, edaphic, and biological conditions. He is particularly expert on soil carbon dynamics, nutrient relationships between soil and vegetation, and the impact of species composition on ecosystem biogeochemistry. He has developed new approaches to representing the impact of land-use change, and climate change in terrestrial biogeochemistry models and also developed global data sets for the evaluation of global terrestrial biogeochemistry models.