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Joy Doran Peterson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Ph.D. (1994) University of Florida

Address: Department of Microbiology
550 Biological Sciences
Athens, GA 30602-2605
Phone: (706) 542-4115
E-mail: jpeterso@uga.edu
COS CV: http://myprofile.cos.com/jpeterso

Research Interests:
The Doran-Peterson laboratory at the University of Georgia has four major efforts:
1) mining microbial diversity for new organisms, enzymes, and antimicrobials; 2) developing methods for disrupting biomass to release sugars; 3) improving existing fermentation processes and fermenting organisms; and 4) integrating all of the above for an economically viable process.  Major biomass types investigated include forestry residues and high impact pine resources, food and agricultural wastes (sugar beet pulp, sugarcane bagasse, corn stover, baby carrot waste, and other food processing wastes), sorghum, grasses (switchgrass, bermudagrass, napiergrass), and algae. She has an active research laboratory and also consults regularly for industry and the investment community.

Dr. Doran-Peterson is Chair of the Fermentation and Biotechnology Division of the American Society for Microbiology and was recently selected to Chair the University-wide 80+ member Biofuels, Biopower, and Biomaterials Initiative (B3I) at UGA.  She has presented next generation biofuels talks on numerous occasions, here in the states and overseas and has shared information with members of the US Government on Capitol Hill.  

Publications:
Hawkins, G.M., Doran-Peterson, J. A strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae evolved for fermentation of lignocellulosic biomass displays improved growth and fermentative ability in high solids concentrations and in the presence of inhibitory compounds. Biotechnology for Biofuels 2011, 4:49 (10 Nov. 2011).

Das KC, Singh K, Bibens B, Hilten R, Baker SA, Greene WD, Peterson JD. PYROLYSIS CHARACTERISTICS OF FOREST RESIDUES OBTAINED FROM DIFFERENT HARVESTING METHODS. Applied Engineering in Agriculture 2011;27(1):107-113.

Edwards MC, Henriksen ED, Yomano LP, Gardner BC, Sharma LN, Ingram LO, Peterson JD. Addition of Genes for Cellobiase and Pectinolytic Activity in Escherichia coli for Fuel Ethanol Production from Pectin-Rich Lignocellulosic Biomass. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2011;77(15):5184-5191.

Brandon, S.K., L. Sharma, G.M. Hawkins, W.F. Anderson, C. K. Chambliss, and J. Doran-Peterson. 2011. Ethanol and co-product generation from pressurized batch hot water pretreated bermudagrass and napiergrass using recombinant Escherichia coli as biocatalyst. Biomass and Bioenergy, 35: 3667-3673.

Nesbitt, E.R., P. Thiers, J. Gao, S. Shoemaker, M. Garcia-Perez, J. Carrier, J. Doran-Peterson, J. Morgan, G. Wang, P.C. Wensel, S. Chen. China’s vision for renewable energy: the status of bioenergy and bioproduct research and commercialization. J. Intern. Commerce and Economics. Published online ahead of print. August 2011. This article was also published in a second journal. Industrial Biotechnology. October 2011, 7(5): 336-348. Note on the author information I am listed as Joy Doran-Peterson Bioenergy Systems Research Institute, The University of Georgia (instead of Microbiology as in the others above).