Posts by JBEI

9 advanced molecules that could revolutionize jet and missile fuel

Keasling Wins 2014 Eni Award’s Renewable Energy Prize

Jay Keasling, CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), and pioneer in synthetic biology, has been honored as the recipient of the 2014 Renewable Energy Eni Award for his work on the microbial production of hydrocarbon fuels.

The Bio Incredibles

Joint BioEnergy Institute Names New Chief Science and Technology Officer

JBEI's Trent Northen receives DOE Early Career Award

Solar Jet Fuel — Kerosene From Sunlight, Water, & CO2

Od inzulinu k biopaliv?m (From insulin to biofuels)

TV, Google, and bendy straws: Bay Area inventions and discoveries

Engineered Bacteria Turn Switchgrass into Jet Fuel

JBEI Scientist Featured in New Yorker

Pam Ronald, a UC Davis plant geneticist who directs the Grass Genetics program for the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), is featured in New Yorker magazine about her participation in a classroom debate with famed author and UC Berkeley journalism professor Michael Pollan about the use of G.M.O.s (genetically modified organisms) as food. Pollan, a highly vocal skeptic invited Ronald to make the case for G.M.O.s in his Edible Education class.