by | Aug 20, 2020 | Conversion, Research Profiles
Don’t tell CABBI researcher Meera Gupta there’s something she can’t do. Growing up in Punjab, in northern India, Gupta heard too many times that science wasn’t for girls. Not from her parents, who always supported her ambitions. The message came from society — and...
by | Jul 26, 2020 | Research Profiles, Sustainability
Tara Hudiburg and her team of scientists are the behind-the-scenes heroes who ensure CABBI’s research solutions perform in the real world. The Hudiburg Lab of CABBI’s Sustainability theme is located in Idaho, so the team does not participate in any CABBI field...
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...
