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news: Keasling Wins 2014 Eni Award’s Renewable Energy Prize

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.

June 04, 2014

news: Joint BioEnergy Institute Names New Chief Science and Technology Officer
news: JBEI's Trent Northen receives DOE Early Career Award
news: JBEI Hosts Students as Part of STEM Career Awareness Day 2014
news: Resistance is Not Futile: JBEI Researchers Engineer Resistance to Ionic Liquids in Biofuel Microbes

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.

March 26, 2014

news: Dominique Loqué Wins ASPB’s Robert Rabson Award

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.

March 14, 2014

news: Danish Minister for Science and Higher Education Visits JBEI
news: Blake Simmons elected for EMSL User Executive Committee

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.

January 31, 2014

news: Harvey Blanch wins 2013 William H. Walker Award

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.

November 03, 2013

news: Less Toxic Metabolites, More Chemical Product

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.

November 01, 2013