MaxBin: Automated Sorting Through Metagenomes
Researchers at JBEI led by Steve Singer, director of the Microbial Communities Group, have developed an automated software program for sorting the genomes of individual microbial species from metagenomic sequences. MaxBin facilitates the genomic analysis of uncultivated microbial populations that can hold the key to the production of advanced biofuels and other products.
September 29, 2014
The Economist Recognizes JBEI’s CEO Jay Keasling for Anti-Malarial Effort
On Sept. 10, The Economist announced JBEI’s CEO Jay Keasling as the winner of its 2014 Innovation Award in the Bioscience category. In addition to being JBEI’s CEO, Keasling is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and Senior Faculty Scientist and Associate Lab Director at Berkeley Lab. He was recognized for his development of synthetic artemisinin used to treat malaria.
September 10, 2014
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.
July 28, 2014
The JBEI GT Collection: A New Resource for Advanced Biofuels Research
The JBEI GT Collection, the first glycosyltransferase clone collection specifically targeted for the study of plant cell wall biosynthesis, is expected to drive basic scientific understanding of GTs and better enable the manipulation of plant cell walls for the production of biofuels and other chemical products.
June 23, 2014