Dr. Mohanty was invited to present his research at the Gordon Research Conference that was held from July 14-19, in Newry, Maine, United States. His presentation was titled, "Biobased Materials from Sustainable Resources - A Circular Approach Towards Innovations".

This specific Gordon Research Conference was focused on Biomass Deconstruction, Fractionation and Selective Catalytic Routes to Valuable Building Blocks. It looked at overcoming fundamental challenges towards the development of individual biomass process streams that contain primary biomass components and the effective integration of these streams.It is organized to integrate the following science and engineering activities that will enable a transformation to the manufacturing of chemicals and materials from biomass: i) “front end” strategies to deconstruct or fractionate lignocellulose into individual biomass components, ii) increasing the selectivity and efficiency of chemical and biological catalysts for biomass conversion technologies, iii) selective lignin conversions that provide narrow compositional ranges of aromatic building blocks; iv) genetic engineer of plants to increase their susceptibility to deconstruction methods and as factories to produce natural and non-natural chemicals; v) programming increasingly effective microbes (synthetic biology) that convert complex feedstocks to nearly homogenous products.

Dr. Mohanty giving his guest lecture at the GRC Conference.

Group photo of the Gordon Research Conference.