Anita Brûlé-Babel, plant science, focused on alternative energy with her presentation titled, Wheat-Fueled Cars and Wind-Powered Cities.  The presentation detailed the advantages and disadvantages of various alternative sources of energy, including biomass conversion, hydroelectric power, wind, and solar power. Brûlé-Babel then focused on ethanol, describing her own research on creating new genetic strains of wheat specifically intended for ethanol production. She ended by outlining how future advances in her field, including sequencing the enormous wheat genome, could make ethanol an increasingly important energy source in the coming years.