Washington University in St. Louis

EES > I-CARES > Seminars

February 20
Brown Bag Seminar
212 McDonnell Hall
12:00-1:30 PM

Wyatt Thompson Ph.D. & Seth Meyer, Ph.D.
Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) University of Missouri - Columbia
"Applied Economic Analysis of Biofuel Policies and Markets"

Please RSVP to Marilyn Roberts, i-cares@wustl.edu

February 29
Wilson Hall
3rd Floor Atrium
4:30-6:00 PM

I-CARES Open House
Chancellor Wrighton will join us to celebrate the early accomplishments of I-CARES, and to look ahead to what we hope will be a productive and promising year.

Please RSVP to Marilyn Roberts, i-cares@wustl.edu

March 18
212 McDonnell Hall
9:00-10:00 AM

Jerry Brand Ph.D
Director of the Culture Collection of Algae; Professor, Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology; The University of Texas at Austin

"A Unique Nitrogen-fixing Cyanobacterium in Freshwaters and Tropical Oceans"
With an Introduction to the Most Diverse Reservoir of Living Algae in the World

October 30 201 Anheuser Busch Hall 8:00-9:30 AM	Dr. Gal Luft, Executive Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security "Setting America free from its oil dependence"
October 29 Location: TBD 4:00-5:00 PM	Dr. Michelle Buchanan, Associate Laboratory Director, Physical Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) "Grand Scientific Challenges for Energy"
September 20 Louderman 458 4:00-5:00 PM	Dr. Stephen P. Long, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Crop Sciences "Achieving environmentally and economically viable biofuel feedstock crops. Why improvement of photosynthetic efficiency is critical and attainable"
September 4 Rebstock 322 12:00-1:00 PM	Dr. Mike Edgerton, Ethanol and Quality Traits Technical Lead, Monsanto Company "Biofuels: New demands on agriculture and agricultural productivity"