Dear Colleagues, We have received a large number of requests to extend the deadline for submission of contributed papers by one week. In order to give all of you the opportunity to submit your work to this meeting, we are moving the deadline for submission of contributed papers to Monday December 23, 2013. The paper template is attached to this message and the direct link to the paper submission page is provided below: https://sun.softconf.com/d/focapd14/cgi-bin/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=0 We hope that this extension will allow you to finalize your 6-page papers and submit them for review. Sincerely, Mario, John, and Gavin Dr. Mario Richard Eden, Ph.D. Department Chair Joe T. and Billie Carole McMillan Professor Director, NSF-IGERT on Integrated Biorefining Department of Chemical Engineering 210 Ross Hall Auburn University, AL 36849-5127 Phone: 334-844-2064 Fax: 334-844-2063 Cell: 334-329-8958 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: wp.auburn.edu/eden