New Satellite-Based Algorithm Pinpoints Crop Water Use

by | Mar 20, 2020 | News, Sustainability

The growing threat of drought and rising water demand have made accurate forecasts of crop water use critical for farmland water management and sustainability. But limitations in existing models and satellite data pose challenges for precise estimates of...

Penn State Joins CABBI’s Conversion Team

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...

CABBI Scientists Develop Open-Source Software to Analyze Economics of Biofuels, Bioproducts

by | Feb 18, 2020 | News, Sustainability

Perennial grasses can be converted into everything from ethanol to bioplastics, but it’s unclear which bioproducts hold the greatest potential. BioSTEAM, a new open-source simulation software package in Python developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at...

Poster Presentation Practice 2020

by | Feb 3, 2020 | News

CABBI researchers are all asked to capably explain research and science in a way that makes sense to everyone. On Feb. 3, 2020, researchers, postdocs, and graduate students took time to discuss the work they are doing within the Feedstock Production, Conversion, and...

University of Illinois iGEM Team: Cleaning up our Crops

by | Nov 22, 2019 | News

Herbicides are an integral component of modern farming. However, glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the United States and the main ingredient in formulations like Roundup™, has recently been classified as a probable carcinogen by the International Agency...

iBioFAB: Reimagining our Approach to Synthetic Biology

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....