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Eden Area Regional Occupation Program (ROP) presented The Business Person of the Year award to six East Bay business leaders for their contribution to East Bay schools.

DOE’s three BRC's, JBEI, BESC and GLBRC co-authored a report on the first seven years of their research.

Berkeley Lab teams aced the summer session of the Bay Area Regional NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™).

JBEI partnered with Biotech Partners this summer by providing internships to three high school students.

Pam Ronald, Director of JBEI’s Grass Genetics program, led a study that identified a bacterial signaling molecule that triggers an immunity response in rice plants, enabling the plants to resist a devastating blight disease. In addition to being a staple food, rice is the model for grass-type biofuels.

In this article published at the Department of Energy's website, the latest achievements by DOE's Bionergy Research Centers, namely JBEI are highlighted.

After eight years of groundbreaking research, JBEI has rewritten the formula for engineering renewable transportation fuels.

The development of ionic liquids, and the potential for a transformative impact on the cost and sources of renewable fuels, demonstrates why DOE created a clutch of integrated bioenergy research centers. In this feature article, Biofuels Digest covers JBEI's efforts in developing a new generation of ionic liquids.

JBEI and ABPDU researchers took over the Berkeley Lab Twitter account on June 11 for a one hour chat on the making advanced biofuels.