by | Apr 2, 2020 | Feedstock Production, Research Profiles
Growing up in a small town on the east coast of China, Yingqi Cai was fascinated with plants. Her mom loved gardening, and their home was filled with greenery. Cai would sit and stare at the plants, waiting in vain to catch the exact moment they flowered. “It was...
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 | Mar 5, 2020 | Feedstock Production, Research Profiles
Common expressions such as “rise to the challenge” were born from industrious and driven people like Xueyi Xue, a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI). Xue, with his wife and two young children, ventured...
by | Feb 11, 2020 | Research Profiles, Sustainability
Luoye Chen’s passion for helping the world become a better place has always been a motivation for his work. After attending Peking University in China for six years, Chen obtained two bachelor’s degrees — one in Public Policy and another in Economics. This...
by | Jan 29, 2020 | Research Profiles, Sustainability
Joanna Ridgeway was born and raised in West Virginia’s great outdoors. But for this CABBI Sustainability researcher, endless hours spent camping, backpacking, kayaking, and rock climbing didn’t just amount to a love for nature — they kickstarted her career. “When I...
by | Nov 27, 2019 | Feedstock Production, Research Profiles
Mohammad Belaffif is a biologist at heart. As a CABBI Postdoc working out of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, he combines his love for biology with the power of computers to explore the realm of plant genomics. Following his passion, Belaffif obtained his...
