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Dr. Hood lectures, presents at workshop, world congress
Date Released: 2007-04-25

Dr. Elizabeth Hood, Research and Technology Transfer, gave a plenary talk at the Alberta Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology Workshop in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The presentation concerned using plants as production factories for valuable renewable products for industrial applications. Dr. Hood also presented a poster at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing in Orlando. The poster outlined a cost-effective production system for cellulase enzymes for biomass breakdown for ethanol production from cellulose.