by | Aug 20, 2020 | Conversion, Research Profiles
Don’t tell CABBI researcher Meera Gupta there’s something she can’t do. Growing up in Punjab, in northern India, Gupta heard too many times that science wasn’t for girls. Not from her parents, who always supported her ambitions. The message came from society — and...
by | Jul 17, 2020 | CABBI Data, Conversion
High-Level β-Carotene Production from Xylose by Engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae without Overexpression of a Truncated HMG1 (tHMG1) CABBI Theme: Conversion Keyword: Genome Engineering Citation Sun, L., Atkinson, C.A., Lee, Y.G., Jin, Y.S. July 17, 2020....
by | Jun 12, 2020 | Conversion, Research Profiles
You might say beer, bacteria, and shellfish led Qiang Yan into the precision world of metabolic engineering. Now a CABBI Conversion researcher, Yan spent his undergraduate days at Dalian Polytechnic University in China, which had close ties to several local breweries....
by | Jun 8, 2020 | Conversion, News
Researchers have identified key ingredients for producing high-value chemical compounds in an environmentally friendly fashion: repurposed enzymes, curiosity, and a little bit of light. A paper published in Nature describes a study led by Xiaoqiang Huang (pictured), a...
by | May 29, 2020 | CABBI Data, Conversion
Metabolic Engineering of β-Oxidation to Leverage Thioesterases for Production of 2-Heptanone, 2-Nonanone, and 2-Undecanone CABBI Theme: Conversion Keyword: Metabolomics Citation Yan, Q., Simmons, T.R., Cordell, W.T., Hernandez Lozada, N.J., Breckner, C.J., Chen,...
by | May 19, 2020 | Conversion, News
Scientists engineering valuable microbes for renewable fuels and bioproducts have developed a fast, efficient way to identify the most promising varieties. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed a novel mass spectrometry-based...
