Role of Genome Science in Bioenergy to Be Focus of Talk at UMass Amherst on May 5

May 1, 2008

Contact:

Ed Blaguszewski 413/545-0444

AMHERST, Mass. – The Environmental Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will continue its spring lecture series on emerging technologies and the environment on Monday, May 5 at 3:30 p.m. with a presentation by James K. Fredrickson of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He will give a talk, “The Role of Genome Science in Bioenergy, Carbon Cycling, and Environmental Remediation.” The lecture will be held in the Cape Cod Lounge of the Student Union Building and is free and open to the public.

The speakers in this year’s lecture series are drawn from backgrounds in computer and biological sciences and civil and environmental engineering, and they address the effects new technologies are having on the environment.

Fredrickson is a laboratory fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington. He conducts research on subsurface microbiology and biogeochemistry. He has been responsible for laboratory and field research programs investigating the microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of geologically diverse subsurface environments. Fredrickson currently serves on the editorial board of Environmental Microbiology.

The Environmental Institute is guided by an advisory council from the College of Natural Resources and the Environment, the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Public Health and Health Sciences.

For more information, go to:
http://www.umass.edu/tei/TEI_2005/emergingtechlectures.html

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