报告题目：Improving plant biomass and enzymes for biorefineries
报告人：Dr. Leonardo Darío Gómez (University of York, UK)
时 间：2011年10月8日下午3点
地 点：浙江大学紫金港农生环组团A楼435
Dr. Leonardo Darío Gómez 简介：
Present Position: Senior Research fellow at the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, department of Biology, University of York, UK.
Research Projects:
a) SUNLIBB I lead the Biomass Deconstruction Work Package within SUNLIBB. SUNLIBB is a collaborative project between the EU and Brazil, dedicated to developing biomass resources as an alternative energy source. The SUNLIBB participants represent the most experienced institutions in Biomass Conversion both in the EU and Brazil.
b) EU FP7 RENEWALL project. This project, aimed at tackling the recalcitrance of plant cell walls to conversion into biofuels, is carried out by a large Consortium involving academic researchers, large companies and SMEs from several European countries (www.renewall.eu). He is in charge of developing tools for the analysis of plant material digestibility. He have developed a robust and sensitive high throughput platform for the screening of large populations in order to identify useful markers in this particular trait.
c) Lignin Research Programme of the BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre, UK. He is responsible for overseeing the York contribution to this project, aimed at manipulating the properties of lignin in barley straw to increase efficiency in biofuel production.
Editorial Duties: since 1995, he have been a reviewer for the following journals:Planta, Journal of Experimental Botany, Plant Biology, Annals of Botany, Functional Plant Science and Biotechnology, Revista Brasiliera de Botanica (Brazil), Agriscientia (Argentina),Journal of the National Institute of Agriculture (Argentina)
Recently Publications:
- Gomez, L. D., Whitehead, C., Roberts, P., McQueen-Mason, S. J., High-throughput Saccharification Assay for Lignocellulosic Materials. http://www.jove.com/details.php?id=3240 doi: 10.3791/3240. J Vis Exp. 53 (2011).
- Brown D, Wightman R, Zhang Z ,Gomez LD, Atanassov I, Bukowski JP, Tryfona T, McQueen-Mason, SJ, Dupree P, Turner, S (2011) Arabidopsis genes IRREGULAR XYLEM (IRX15) and IRX15L encode DUF579 containing proteins that are essential for normal xylan deposition in the secondary cell wall Plant J 66:401-13
- Gomez LD, Whitehead C, Barakate A, Halpin C, McQueen-Mason SJ. 2010 Automated saccharification assay for determination of digestibility in plant materials. Biotechnol Biofuels. Oct 27;3:23.
- Gómez LD, Gilday A, Feil R, Lunn JE, Graham IA.(2010) AtTPS1-mediated trehalose 6-phosphate synthesis is essential for embryogenic and vegetative growth and responsiveness to ABA in germinating seeds and stomatal guard cells. Plant J. 64:1-13.
- Lizana CX, Riegel R, -Gomez LD., Herrera J, Isla A, McQueen-Mason SJ. and Calderini DF (2010) Expansins expression is associated with grain size dynamics in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). J.Exp.Bot. 61:1147-57
- Gomez LD, Steele-King CG, Jones L, Foster JM, Vuttipongchaikij S and McQueen-Mason SJ. (2009) Arabinan metabolism during seed development and germination in Arabidopsis. Mol Plant 5:966-976
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