Dr. Mark EMPTAGE Biology Team Leader, DuPont Biorefinery Program, Wilmington
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| 1972 | Received B.S in Chemistry from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago |
| 1978 | Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois-Urbana |
| 1979-1980 | NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1980-1984 | Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Scientist at the Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1984 | Joined DuPont Central Research & Development as a Principle Investigator in biochemisty. Worked on various programs |
| such as discovery of new herbicides and fungicides, fluorine biochemistry and enzyme biocatalysis. | |
| 1998-2003 | Biochemistry Task leader for the development of successful commercial biocatalyst for production of 1,3-propanediol (PDO) by fermentation |
| since 2004 | Biology Team Leader for DuPont's Biorefinery program to make cellulosic ethanol co-funded by the Department of Energy |
Mitgliedschaften
| American Chemical Society, since 1978 | |
| American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1984 |
Publikationen
| Gray, Kevin A., Zhao, L., Emptage, M. (2006) Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 10, 1 | |
| Liao, D.-I., Dotson, G., Turner Jr., I., Reiss, L., Emptage, M. (2003) J. Inorg. Biochem. 93, 84 | |
| Emptage, M., Haynie, S., Laffend, L., Pucci, J., Whited, G. (2003) Patent # US 6,514,733 B1 | |
| Johansson, E., Steffens, J. J., Emptage, M., Lindqvist, Y., Schneider, G. (2000) Acta Crystallographica, D56, 662 |
Auszeichnungen
| Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for 2003 |
