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Advisory board meeting in Umeå
March 14, 2012 (13:00 - 17:00)
Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting
March 14, 2012(15:00) - March 16, 2012 (15:00)
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The programme director: Hannele Tuominen
The programme co-director: Björn Sundberg
Scientific administrator: Veronica Bourquin

A management board
Hannele Tuominen
Björn Sundberg
Rishi Bhalerao
Tomas Lundmark
Leif Jönsson

A programme advisory board
Emil Van Zyl    Univ. of Stellenbosch, South Africa
John Ralph     Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, US
Wout Boerjan     Ghent University, Belgium
Teemu Teeri     Univ. of Helsinki, Finland
Hans Grundberg     Processum, Sweden
Martin Lersch          Borregaard, Norway
Magnus Hertzberg     SweTree Technologies, Sweden

Principal Investigators
PI Department Responsibility area in BioImprove
Rishi Bhalerao 1 Novel feedstocks; increased biomass  (transcription factors)
Leif Jönsson 2 Analysis of bioprocessing properties
Tomas Lundmark 3 Field tests of transgenic hybrid aspen trees
Ewa Mellerowicz 1 Novel feedstocks; lignocellulose recalcitrance (xylan,pectin)
Thomas Moritz 1 Metabolomic analysis
Totte Niittylä 1 Novel feedstocks; biomass production (carbon allocation)
Ove Nilsson 1 Novel feedstocks; biomass production (PttWOX4)
Edouard Pesquet 4 Novel feedstocks; lignocellulose recalcitrance (lignin)
Björn Sundberg 1 Novel feedstocks; lignocellulose recalcitrance (cellulose)
Hannele Tuominen 4 Novel feedstocks; increased biomass (wood density)
Gunnar Wingsle 1 Proteomic analysis, coexpression analysis
     

1 Dept of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiol., SLU, Umeå
2 Dept of Chemistry, Umeå University
3 Unit of Field Based Forest Research, SLU, Umeå
4 Dept of Plant Physiology, Umeå University