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....

Getting to the Root: Finzi Lab Team at the Illinois Energy Farm

by | Oct 9, 2019 | News, Research Profiles, Sustainability

When it comes to the future of sustainable bioenergy crops, the most important part might also be the most well-hidden. This past summer, the Illinois Energy Farm hosted a research team hailing from Boston University (BU) working in CABBI Co-PI Adrien Finzi’s lab....