Prof. Larry Walker delivers keynote on future of bioenergy
On the fourth and final day of this year’s USSEE meeting, Dr. Larry Walker provided a keynote address on his “Thoughts on How to Evolve Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industrial Ecologies”. Dr. Walker is professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, and Director of the Biomass Conversion Laboratory.
A native of Detroit, Larry holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University in agricultural engineering. During his 25 years at Cornell he has been involved in a number of biomass to energy and chemical projects, including an assessment of New York State biomass resources available for ethanol production, farm-scale methane production and co-generation, the application of nanotechnology to characterizing and studying important biocatalysts for industrial biotechnology, and optimization of solid-state fermentation for the production of biocontrol products. He serves as the Director of the Northeast Sun Grant Institute of Excellence, he is a member of the National Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC) Executive committee, and Co-Editor in Chief for the journal Industrial Biotechnology.