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Daniel Gibbs, Ph.D., President and Founder of General Biomass Company (dgibbs@generalbiomass.com; 847-433-4323), has over 20 years of experience in basic research in biological sciences at Stanford, the University of Washington, and DePaul University, and 5 years of experience in pharmaceutical and diagnostic R&D at Abbott Laboratories, including new technology development and evaluation, patent analysis and evaluation, bioinformatics and software development. His research interests are in cellulase enzymes, paper waste utilization and cellulosic ethanol production. Dr. Gibbs recently testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy on cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels ("Ending Our Addiction to Oil: Are Advanced Vehicles and Fuels the Answer?", June 5, 2006). He is the author of 9 scientific papers including "Global Warming and the Need for Liquid Fuels from Biomass" presented at BioEnergy'98, a paper on ethanol from switchgrass, a renewable energy crop. He was an invited speaker on biomass ethanol at the American Coalition for Ethanol annual meeting. At Abbott Labs, he worked in Pharmaceutical Division R&D on bioinformatics, genomics and gene sequence databases, and in Diagnostics Division R&D on software and patent support for process control of fluidic and chemical systems. He was previously Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at DePaul University and received an NIH grant for research on insect neuroendocrinology. He was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington and an NIH Predoctoral Fellow at Stanford. Dr. Gibbs received a B.A. in Biology from Wesleyan University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. | 