• Maureen McCann
  Director Professor of Biological Sciences, Purdue. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Molecular architecture of plant cell walls and synthetic biology approaches to incorporating catalysts in them for optimized conversion to liquid fuels.

• Mahdi Abu-Omar
  Associate Director Professor of Chemistry, Purdue. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Synthesis of transition metal catalysts and their use in biomass conversion to liquid fuels and High Value Organics (HVOs).

• Rakesh Agrawal Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Energy transformation and use issues for solar, coal, biomass and hydrogen economy; Novel separation processes using distillation, membranes and adsorption; Process development, cryogenics and gas liquefaction processes.

• Craig Barnes Professor and Department Head of Chemistry, University of Tennessee
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• Joe Bozell Associate Professor of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Tennessee This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• Alison Buchan Assistant Professor of Microbiology, University of Tennessee This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Characterization of bacterial ring hydroxylating dioxygenases for use in the transformation of monolignols.

• Nick Carpita
  Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: The dynamic structure and function of the unique cell walls of grasses and related species, and the biochemical mechanism of synthesis of cellulose and other beta-glucans.

• Clint Chapple
  Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, Purdue. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Lignin modification to enhance the catalytic degradation of biomass and the development and evaluation of targeted probes to explore the localization and control of lignin deposition.

• Kari Clase Assistant Professor of Industrial Technology, Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• Mike Crowley Senior Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Nick Delgass
  Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor of Chemical Engineering, Purdue. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Heterogeneous catalysis directed toward development of catalysts for hydropyrolysis of biomass and selective hydrodeoxygenation for upgrading bio-oil to a high energy density fuel.

• Shi-You Ding Senior Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• Bryon Donohoe Senior Scientist in Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Visualizing the impact of catalyst incorporation and activity on cell wall architecture by imaging biomass-catalyst interactions at the nano-scale using 3D electron tomography.

• Stephanie Bonebrake Administrative Assistant This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• Mike Himmel Team Leader, National Renewable Energy Laboratory This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• Carl Huetteman Project Manager This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• Hilkka Kenttamaa
  Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, Purdue. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Development of analytical methods for the molecular level characterization of complex organic mixtures using tandem mass spectrometry.

• Jyotsana Lal Argonne National Laboratory This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Lee Makowski Senior Scientist, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Biomolecular architecture and dynamics; and the development and use of novel x-ray and neutron scattering and x-ray imaging for their study.

• Nathan Mosier
  Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Aqueous phase catalysis of lignocellulose hydrolysis and sugar dehydration to reactive aldehydes.

• Fabio Ribeiro
  Professor of Chemical Engineering, Purdue. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Study of pyrolytic processes to determine optimal reaction conditions and development of catalytic processes for the upgrade of bio-oil.

• Garth Simpson Associate Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• Chris Staiger Professor of Biological Sciences, Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• Dan Szymanski
  Associate Professor of Agronomy, Purdue. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Cell wall assembly in living cells, using combinations of live-cell imaging techniques to directly visualize the activities of the cytoskeleton, the secretory pathway, and the assembly of cell wall polymers.

• Kendall Thomson Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Melvin Tucker National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Students and Post Docs

• Joshua Abbott University of Tennessee This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Sabir Aqueel Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Christine Bohn Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Dave Borton II Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  Post Doc (Dr. Hilkka Kenttamaa)
  Research Interest: Mass spectrometry instrumentation development

• Choudhari Harshawardhan Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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• Jim Daleiden University of Tennessee This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Ashley Frank Post Doc (Dr. Alison Buchan)
  University of Tennessee This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  Research Interest: Characterization of bacterial ring hydroxylating dioxygenases for use in the transformation of monolignols.

• Shuo Liu
  Graduate Student (Dr. Mahdi Abu-Omar)
  Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  Research Interest: Conversion of biomass to high value organics and fuels.
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• Matt Hurt Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Eurick Kim Purdue University Graduate Student (Dr. Abu-Omar) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Selective Conversion of Biomass to High Value Organics and Hydrocarbon Fuels

• Jeong Im Kim Purdue University Advisor: Professor Clint Chapple Post Doc
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• Vinod Kumar V Purdue University Graduate Student (Dr. Fabio Ribeiro) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research Interest: Thermochemical processes to convert biomass to liquid fuels

• Chris Marcum
  Purdue University
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  Graduate Student (Dr. Hilkka Kenttamaa)
• Dhairya Mehta Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• Ben Owen Post Doc (Dr. Hilkka Kenttamaa)
  Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  Research Interest: Mass spectrometry instrumentation and identification of unknowns and mixture components.

• Narra Padmaja Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Nelson Vinueza Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Ben Wegenhart Purdue University Graduate Student (Dr. Abu-Omar) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Research interests: Conversion of biomass to liquid fuels and highly valuable organics by transition metal catalysis

• Fanny Widjaja Purdue University This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Hiu Wei
  Post Doc (Drs. Himmel, Ding, and Tucker)
  National Renewable Energy Lab
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  Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions, carbon and nitrogen metabolism, and stress and metal physiology; Genetic engineering of biomass crops to improve the plant cell wall degradability; Metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics of microbial community that involved in biomass degradation.