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

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.

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.

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

A new technique allows JBEI researchers to identify populations within microbial communities responsible for biomass deconstruction.

JBEI researchers helped develop a technique to identify microbial enzymes that deconstruct biomass into fuel sugars under refinery processing conditions.