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Lignoworks goes to Sweden again

Post date: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 20:15

For the second year, a Lignoworks graduate student is among five students from the FIBRE network who will participate in the student symposium that accompanies the annual Wallenberg Prize Symposium in Stockholm, Sweden in September. The Wallenberg Prize recognizes scientific and technical achievements that have had significant impact on the global forest industry and is the forest industry’s most prestigious award.

The students were selected by a competitive process. Each network nominated two students, who made oral presentations on their work at the FIBRE annual meeting in Vancouver. The final five were chosen by a panel of judges.
FIBRE 2014 annual conference

Post date: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 20:24

Lignoworks is one of five forestry-related NSERC Strategic Networks that make up FIBRE – Forest Innovation by Research and Education. In order to encourage networking across the networks and with the wider forestry community, FIBRE held its second annual meeting May 12 – 15 on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows are at the heart of FIBRE’s activities and the conference began with a student-organized session on job search skills.
Canada's first lignin plant

Post date: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 20:37

Canada’s first commercial lignin plant is under construction at the West Fraser Timber kraft pulp mill in Hinton, AB.

The plant will use the Lignoforce Technology developed by FPInnovations, one of Lignoworks industrial partners. More information about the project is available from West Fraser's press release announcing the project.
More recognition for Prof Philip Jessop

Post date: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 20:43

Prof Philip Jessop, last year honoured with an Eni Award from Italian oil and gas producer Eni, has recently had his work honoured closer to home by being nominated as one of the Globe and Mail’s “Innovators at Work”.

Congratulations to Prof Jessop for this well-earned recognition of his work.
Lignoworks Participates in Paperweek 2014

Post date: Monday, February 24, 2014 - 17:35

The annual meeting of the Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada occurred February 3 – 6, 2014 in Montreal.

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Aerobic Oxidation of Lignin Models Using a Base Metal Vanadium Catalyst

Author(s):
Susan K. Hanson
R. Tom Baker
John C. Gordon
Brian L. Scott
David L. Thorn

Subject: Catalyzed lignin oxidation

Published on: Fri, 05/21/2010

Web Page: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic100528n?prevSearch=%255Bauthor%253A%2Br%2B...
Preparation of a Thermoresponsive Lignin-Based Biomaterial

Author(s):
Yong Sik Kim
John F. Kadla

Subject: Lignin-Based Materials

Published on: Fri, 02/26/2010

Web Page: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021%2Fbm901455p
Electrospinning of Technical Lignins for the Production of Fibrous Networks

Author(s):
Ian Dallmeyer
Frank Ko
John F. Kadla

Subject: Lignin-based Fibrous Materials

Published on: Sat, 11/20/2010

Web Page: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/02773813.2010.52...
Characterization of Dye-Decolorizing Peroxidases from Rhodococcus jostii RHA1

Author(s):
J. N. Roberts
R. Singh
J. C. Grigg
M. E. Murphy
T. D. H. Bugg
L. D. Eltis

Subject: Biological Catalysis

Published on: Mon, 06/06/2011

Web Page: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bi200427h?prevSearch=%255Bauthor%253A%2Belti...
Identification of DypB from Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 as a Lignin Peroxidase

Author(s):
Mark Ahmad
Joseph N. Roberts
Elizabeth M. Hardiman
Rahul Singh
Lindsay D. Eltis
Timothy D. H. Bugg

Subject: Biological Catalysis

Published on: Mon, 06/06/2011

Web Page: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bi101892z?prevSearch=%255Bauthor%253A%2Belti...