JBEI’s Pamela Ronald Named GCHERA World Agriculture Prize Laureate
Pamela Ronald, JBEI’s Scientific Lead for Plant Pathology in the Feedstocks division, has been named the 2020 World Agriculture Prize laureate by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences, or GCHERA. Ronald is a distinguished professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis (one of JBEI’s six academic research partners) and with the UC Davis Genome Center. She becomes the first woman whose work is recognized by the award.
October 19, 2020
New Synthetic Biology Tools Unlock Complex Plant Engineering
The tools provide the fine control needed for bioenergy and sustainable agriculture efforts.
July 01, 2020
Finding the missing step of an important molecular process
Researchers at JBEI reveal the final missing step of lysine catabolism.
June 29, 2020
JBEI Project Receives Technology Commercialization Funding Award from Department of Energy
The award funds research on producing a new aviation biofuel precursor from cellulosic biomass.
June 11, 2020