Posts by JBEI

iCLEM Featured as a “Cool School” on KPIX-TV

An August 7 KPIX-TV Channel 5 story featured the iCLEM program held at JBEI.

How Sweet It Is: New Tool for Characterizing Plant Sugar Transporters Developed at Joint BioEnergy Institute

JBEI researchers have developed a powerful new tool that can help advance the genetic engineering of “fuel” crops for clean, green and renewable bioenergy - an assay that enables scientists to identify and characterize the function of nucleotide sugar transporters, critical components in the biosynthesis of plant cell walls.

The iCLEM Program: An Atypical Summer Job for Bay Area High School Students

Students returning to school this fall will inevitably be asked: What did you do during the summer break? For eight Bay Area high school students the atypical answer will be: Conducted scientific research on bioenergy at a state-of-the art laboratory.