Items in Category “News”

Resistance is Not Futile: JBEI Researchers Engineer Resistance to Ionic Liquids in Biofuel Microbes

Michael Thelen, Thomas Ruegg and Blake Simmons, of JBEI’s Deconstruction Division, led the identification of the genetic origins of a resistance to ionic liquids found in a tropical rainforest microbe.

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Dominique Loqué Wins ASPB’s Robert Rabson Award

JBEI’s Dominique Loqué, who directs the cell wall engineering program for the Feedstocks Division, has been selected as this year’s winner of the Robert Rabson Award by the American Society of Plant Biology.

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Blake Simmons elected for EMSL User Executive Committee

Blake Simmons, JBEI’s Vice President for Deconstruction has been selected as a member of the User Executive Committee for EMSL.

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Harvey Blanch wins 2013 William H. Walker Award

JBEI's Chief Science & Technology Officer, Harvey Blanch has been awarded the 2013 William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature.

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Less Toxic Metabolites, More Chemical Product

By preventing the build-up of toxic metabolites in engineered microbes, a dynamic regulatory system developed at JBEI can help boost production of an advanced biofuel, a therapeutic drug, or other valuable chemical products.

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One Pot to Prep Biomass for Biofuels

JBEI researchers save water and reduce pollution with the first one-pot, wash-free, process for the ionic liquid pretreatment and saccharification of switchgrass.  

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