{"id":1052,"date":"2011-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-416\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:28","slug":"innovation-anthology-416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2011\/08\/11\/innovation-anthology-416\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #416:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 416.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Students at the University of Alberta believe they may have a better and cheaper way to produce <strong>biodiesel.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> For their entry into the<strong> 2011 International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition, <\/strong>they&rsquo;ve turned their attention to a lowly <strong>fungus<\/strong> that grows on charred trees after a forest fire. <\/p>\n<p> As 4th year biochemistry student <strong>Ray Odsen<\/strong> explains, the team will genetically enhance the ability of this fungus to digest cellulose. <\/p>\n<p><strong> RAY ODSEN:  <\/strong> <em>The organism  eats cellulose and it turns that into energy.  But the base sort of theory behind it is that cellulose is carbon.   So when  an organism will  intake carbon, it can turn that carbon into many other forms of carbon since you can&rsquo;t destroy an element, it just turns into different forms.    So we want to turn the carbon from cellulose into fatty acids.  And fatty acids like you might find in oil or butter, anything like that,  can be esterified through a chemical process to produce biodiesel.   So we&rsquo;re essentially trying to take the cellulose carbon, turn it into fatty acid, to turn that into biodiesel.  And it&rsquo;s a relatively well characterized process.  <\/em>  <\/p>\n<p> Ray Odsen says the genetically altered fungus could produce biodiesel from agricultural and pulp mill waste.  And this will reduce the need to use food crops like corn.   <\/p>\n<p><em> Thanks today to <strong>Alberta Innovates Technology Futures<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p> <strong>FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/> I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/strong> <\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\">Alberta Innovates Technology Futures<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Alberta Innovates launched its consolidation on November 1, 2016<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et-waypoint et_pb_image et_pb_animation_off et_pb_image_5 et_always_center_on_mobile et_pb_image_sticky et-animated\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/albertainnovates.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tech_futures_v2_icon.png\" \/> \t\t\t \t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><strong>780-450-5111<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\/\">albertatechfutures.ca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>250 Karl Clark Road,<br \/>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada<br \/>T6N 1E4<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/AI_Tech_RGB_smallForWeb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02011-08-11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at the<strong> University of Alberta<\/strong> believe they may have a better and cheaper way to produce <strong>biodiesel.<\/strong>   For their entry into the <strong>2011 International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition<\/strong>, they&rsquo;ve turned their attention to a lowly fungus grows on charred trees after a forest fire. <em>(Alberta Innovates Technology Futures)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,8,7,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-innovates-technology-futures","category-forests","category-genomics","category-life-sciences","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4734,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/4734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}