by | Jul 8, 2020 | Feedstock Production, Research Profiles
Whether he’s tending to his tomato garden, brewing coffee for a morning pick-me-up, or running experiments with bioenergy crops, CABBI scientist Kiyoul Park spends his days surrounded by what grows in the ground. However, his Feedstock Production research has sky-high...
by | Jun 12, 2020 | Conversion, Research Profiles
You might say beer, bacteria, and shellfish led Qiang Yan into the precision world of metabolic engineering. Now a CABBI Conversion researcher, Yan spent his undergraduate days at Dalian Polytechnic University in China, which had close ties to several local breweries....
by | May 6, 2020 | Research Profiles, Sustainability
On a small-town Pennsylvania farm, future CABBI scientist Dalton Stewart spent his Boy Scout days showing pigs at the county fair. Well, not quite “Boy Scout” — Stewart’s formative years were devoted to an organization called 4-H. “Sort of like Boy Scouts, but with...
by | Apr 21, 2020 | Conversion, Research Profiles
Matthew Waugh, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Professor Yi Lu’s lab, is not one to brag about his work. “Most of my time is spent waiting for water to drip — either that or cleaning,” Waugh said. While it might not seem glamorous, all that dripping water is actually...
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. ...
