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 | Jan 31, 2020 | CABBI Data, Conversion
A Genetic Toolbox for Metabolic Engineering of Issatchenkia orientalis CABBI Theme: Conversion Keywords: Genome Engineering, Genomics, Transcriptomics Citation Cao, M., Fatma, Z., Song, X., Hsieh, P.H., Tran, V., Lyon W., Sayadi, M., Shao, Z., Yoshikuni, Y., Zhao,...
by | Jan 30, 2020 | CABBI Data, Conversion, Sustainability
BioSTEAM: A Fast and Flexible Platform for the Design, Simulation, and Techno-Economic Analysis of Biorefineries under Uncertainty CABBI Themes: Conversion, Sustainability Keywords: Economics, Modeling, Software Citation Cortes-Peña, Y., Guest, J. S. Jan. 30,...
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....
