This year's Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy will afford attendees a unique opportunity to learn about and discuss the latest issues regarding and facing industrial biotechnology including algae for fuels, marine bio-resources, advanced biofuels, renewable hydrocarbons, biopolymers and bioplastics, dedicated energy crops, and much more.

Stoel Rives attorneys Graham Noyes and Joe Thompson are part of the event faculty. Noyes will speak on "From Algae to Energy - Integration of Technologies to Capture the Value of Renewable Hydrocarbons" on November 9. Thompson will present "Cellulose to Ethanol: Unique Legal Issues, Challenges and Opportunities as the Industry Moves to Cellulosic Ethanol" on November 11.

Please join us as we seek to gain further momentum in the greater effort to establish alternative energy sources in Honolulu, HI, November 8-11, 2009.

For more information, or to register, please visit: http://bio.org/pacrim/index.asp