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
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
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
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
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
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.
August 15, 2013
Microbial Who-Done-It For Biofuels
A new technique allows JBEI researchers to identify populations within microbial communities responsible for biomass deconstruction.
July 25, 2013
