NAME Jim Kastner DEPARTMENT Biological Engineering PHONE 706-583-0155 ADDRESS University of Georgia Athens, Georgia 30602 EMAIL jkastner@engr.uga.edu RESEARCH INTERESTS Fermentation, Thermochemical Processing: Thermal, Catalytic, and Enzymatic Transformation of Lignocellulosics and Starch Fermentation processes for biofuels and chemicals, Biocatalytic processes, Advanced Carbon materials from Biomass

Jim Kastner

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

James R. Kastner, Rangan Ganagavaram, Praveen Kolar, Amyn Teja, Chun Bao Xu. 2008. Catalytic Ozonation of Propanal Using Wood Fly Ash and Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Impregnated Carbon, Environ. Sci. Technol., 42(2), 556-562.

Li Wang, Praveen Kolar, James R. Kastner, Brian Herner. 2008. Biofiltration Kinetics of a Gaseous Aldehyde Mixture using a Synthetic Matrix, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, 58:412-423.

Praveen Kolar, James R. Kastner, Joby Miller. 2007. Low temperature catalytic oxidation of aldehydes using wood fly ash and molecular oxygen, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 76 (2007) 203-217.

Kastner, J.R., Q. Buquoi, R. Ganagavaram, K.C. Das. 2005. Catalytic Ozonation of Gaseous Reduced Sulfur Compounds Using Wood Fly Ash., Environmental Science and Technology, 39(6): 1835-1842.

Kastner, J.R., M.A. Eiteman, S.A. Lee. 2003. Effect of Redox Potential on Stationary Phase Xylitol Fermentations, App. Biotechnol. Microbiol. 63:96-100.

Kastner, J.R., R.S. Roberts, W.J. Jones. 1999. Ethanol Fermentation of Mixed Sugars Using a Two Phase, Fed-Batch Fermentation: Method to Minimize Glucose Repression of Candida shehatae D-Xylose Fer, J Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, 22: 65-70.

Kastner, J.R., R.S. Roberts, W.J. Jones. 1999. Oxygen starvation induces cell death in D- xylose Candida shehatae fermentations, but not in glucose, Appl Microbiol Biotechnol.

Kastner, J.R., R.S. Roberts, W.J. Jones. 1998. Simultaneous utilization of glucose and D-xylose in a chemostat, J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol, 20:339-343.

Kastner, J.R., R.S. Roberts, W.J. Jones. 1996. The Effect of Xylitol on Candida shehatae Cell Viability and D-Xylose Metabolism, Biotechnology Letters, 18(1): 31-34.

Kastner, J.R., R.S. Roberts, W.J. Jones. 1996. The Effect of pH on the Viability and D-Xylose Metabolism of the Yeast Candida shehatae, Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 45: 224-228.

Young, F.K., J.R. Kastner, S.W. May. 1994. The Microbial Production of Poly-b-Hydroxybutyric acid (PHB) from D-Xylose and Lactose, Appl Environ Microbiol, 60: 4195-4198.

Kastner, J.R., M. Ahmad, R.S. Roberts, W.J. Jones. 1992. Viability of Candida shehatae In D-Xylose Fermentations With Added Ethanol, Biotechnology and Bioengineering 40: 1282-1285.

Kastner, J.R., R.S. Roberts. 1990. Simultaneous fermentation of D-xylose and glucose by Candida shehatae, Biotechnology Letters, 12 (1): 57-60.