CABBI Researchers Collaborate on Oilcane Pilot Project

by | Jul 4, 2021 | 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:...

DNAzymes could outperform protein enzymes for genetic engineering

by | Jun 24, 2021 | Conversion, News

Emily Heaton: A Q&A with CABBI’s Feedstock Production Theme Leader

by | May 25, 2021 | Feedstock Production, News, Sustainability

  Agronomist Emily Heaton has been part of CABBI from the start as a Sustainability researcher at Iowa State University. Now back at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — her alma mater and research training ground — Heaton has taken over leadership of...

Incentives Could Turn Costs of Biofuel Mandates into Environmental Benefits

by | Apr 22, 2021 | News

New studies from the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) shed more light on the economic and environmental costs of mandates in the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), a federal program to expand the nation’s biofuels sector. Researchers said...

CABBI Offers New Summer Research Internship

by | Apr 2, 2021 | News

A new research opportunity for undergraduates interested in a STEM career will launch this summer at the Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI). The Research Internship in Sustainable Bioenergy (RISE) is a 10-week summer program designed to provide...

Genetics Expert Dan Voytas Joins CABBI Feedstock Production Team

by | Mar 15, 2021 | Feedstock Production, News

A renowned genetics expert who has worked for two decades to improve gene-editing techniques in plants has joined the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI). Dan Voytas, the McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor and Director of the Center...