by | Apr 2, 2020 | CABBI Data, Conversion
CABBI Data: A Genetic Toolbox for Metabolic Engineering of Issatchenkia orientalis CABBI Theme: Conversion Keywords: Genomics, Hydrolysate, Genome Engineering, Transcriptomics Citation Cao, M., Fatma, Z., Song, X., Hsieh, P.H., Tran, V., Lyon W., Sayadi, M., Shao,...
by | Mar 26, 2020 | Conversion, News
Researchers have developed a triad of innovative tools to engineer low-pH-tolerant yeast Issatchenkia orientalis for production of valuable bioproducts from renewable biomass. A paper published in Metabolic Engineering outlines the study’s three-pronged approach and...
by | Mar 18, 2020 | Conversion, Research Profiles
“Every day is exciting. Every day you perform different experiments and have a different hypothesis.” Zia Fatma, a Postdoctoral Researcher on the CABBI Conversion Team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, never sees two days that look quite the same. ...
by | Feb 28, 2020 | Conversion, News
The Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has welcomed its newest partner: Co-Investigator Costas Maranas of Penn State University. Maranas, the Donald B. Broughton Professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State (pictured at far right with...
by | Nov 8, 2019 | Conversion, News, Research Profiles
Across the University of Illinois campus — and at countless other research universities and institutes — biologists toil away at their lab benches, working on tedious tasks such as DNA assembly and microbe engineering. In the concourse research lab in the Carl R....
by | Jul 31, 2019 | Conversion, Research Profiles
It’s not often that volleyball, paper-making, and pilot-scale biomass plants are mentioned in the same sentence. But for CABBI Conversion Postdoc Ming-Hsun Cheng, all of the above are integral to his identity as a researcher, risk-taker, athlete, and scientist. When...
