by | Feb 1, 2021 | Conversion, Feedstock Production, News, Research Profiles
The overarching goal of the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) is to reduce the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels by increasing the value of energy crops. CABBI uses a “plants as factories” approach to grow fuels in plant stems, derive...
by | Dec 2, 2020 | Conversion, Research Profiles
Scientists delve into sustainability from a wide variety of academic backgrounds. For Anshu Deewan, it was the unsung field of computational biology that drew her toward all things “green” and her CABBI work to develop sustainable bioproducts with yeast. Deewan grew...
by | Nov 20, 2020 | Conversion, Feedstock Production, News
From southeastern Florida to northern Mississippi to the Midwestern Corn Belt, CABBI scientists have struck sustainable oil with sugarcane. But the crop’s potential value to the renewable energy sector earns this particular variety a more appropriate designation:...
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....
