Conversion Theme Leader Huimin Zhao wins the 2019 Enzyme Engineering Award from Engineering Conferences International, engconf.org, June 25, 2019:

2019 Enzyme Engineering Award

CABBI Director Evan H. DeLucia and multiple Co-PIs on climate change, drought, and maize production, The Science Times, June 20, 2019:

Crop-Killing Climate Out To Destroy Midwest Farms

CABBI Director Evan H. DeLucia and multiple Co-PIs on climate change, drought, and maize production, XinhuaNet, June 19, 2019:

Warming U.S. Midwest May Force Farmers to Irrigate: Study

CABBI Director Evan H. DeLucia and multiple Co-PIs on climate change, drought, and maize production, Courthouse News, June 18, 2019:

Irrigation — and Dwindling Water Supplies — on the Horizon for Midwest Corn Farmers

Co-PI Stephen P. Long elected to National Academy of Sciences, NAS website, April 30, 2019:

News from the National Academy of Sciences

Co-PI ChangCheng Xu on plant oils in Science Daily, April 29, 2019:

Plant cells eat their own … membranes and oil droplets

CABBI Deputy Director Vijay Singh on sugarcane and biofuel in Span Magazine (pages 16-21), May/June 2019:

Sweet Solutions

CABBI Deputy Director Vijay Singh in a Q&A with Cereal Foods World, March 2019:

Spotlight

CABBI Director Evan H. Delucia on first year of Center on Alton Daily News via Illinois News Network, March 2, 2019:

CABBI project looks at crop conversion for energy production

CABBI Co-PIs Stephen P. Long and Erik Sacks’ on more Miscanthus research in Science Daily, Feb. 26, 2019:

When temperatures drop, Siberian Miscanthus plants surpass main bioenergy variety

CABBI Director Evan H. Delucia and Co-PIs Amy Marshall-Colón and Wendy Yang on first year of Center on WCIA News, Feb. 12, 2019:

Progress Made on Big Research Project

CABBI Co-PI Erik Sacks’ latest Miscanthus research featured in Science Daily, Jan. 30, 2019:

Miscanthus with improved winter-hardiness could benefit northern growers

CABBI Co-PI Erik Sacks’ latest Miscanthus research featured in Morning Ag Clips, Jan. 30, 2019:

Miscanthus with improved winter-hardiness

CABBI Co-PI Carl Bernacchi featured The Conversation, Jan. 29, 2019:

Together, more heat and more carbon dioxide may not alter quantity or nutritional quality of crops

CABBI Co-PI Carl Bernacchi featured in the Wired In column of The News-Gazette, Jan. 27, 2019:

Wired In: Carl Bernacchi

CABBI Co-PI Lisa Ainsworth will receive the 2019 National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture, NAS website, Jan. 23, 2019: 

Join us in Congratulating Elizabeth Ainsworth!

CABBI Deputy Director Don Ort part of RIPE project that addressed glitch in photorespiration, resulting in increased crop yield, Science, Jan. 4, 2019: 

Synthetic glycolate metabolism pathways stimulate crop growth and productivity in the field

Conversion Theme Leader Huimin Zhao part of team that unlocked several large gene clusters for new natural products, U of I News Bureau, Dec. 31, 2018:

Unmuting Large Silent Genes Lets Bacteria Produce New Molecules, Potential Drug Candidates

Co-PI Eddie Brzostek part of team that says trees are eating too much, Science Daily, Dec. 19, 2018:

Forests, Like Humans, Require a Balanced Diet

CABBI Conversion Theme Leader Huimin Zhao joining former advisor for Nobel celebration, U of I Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering website, Dec. 7, 2018:

Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold an Inspiration to ChBE Professor

Co-PI Ting Lu publishes paper on microbial competitions, IGB website, Dec. 3, 2018

The Distance of Microbial Competitions Shapes their Community Structures

Several CABBI co-PIs on Web of Science list for papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year:

Highly Cited Researchers 2018

Co-PI Stephen P. Long’s Crops in silico work featured in Greenhouse Management, Nov. 30, 2018:

Plant Science on a Screen 

Co-PI Kaiyu Guan receiving an American Geophysical Union award in Earth & Space Science News, Nov. 9, 2018:

Guan Receives 2018 Global Environmental Change Early Career Award

Co-PI D.K. Lee’s $5M grant to study energy crops in R&D Magazine, Oct. 17, 2018:

DOE Invests $80 Million in Bioenergy R&D

Co-PI D.K. Lee on energy crops study, The News-Gazette video interview, Sept. 14, 2018:

Friday on the Farm with D.K. Lee

Co-PI D.K. Lee to lead new $5M DOE-funded energy crop study, iSEE website, Sept. 14, 2018:

iSEE Helps Secure $6M+ in New Research Grants for U of I Agriculture Studies

Emily Scott feature on Conversion Theme Co-PIs Ting Lu and Yong-Su Jin, IGB website, Sept. 14, 2018:

Harnessing Microbial Communities’ Division of Labor for Biofuel, Chemical Production

Co-PI Ed Cahoon on a Nebraska team’s rare discovery of new fatty acids, Nebraska Today, Aug. 27, 2018

International team makes rare discovery of new fatty acids

Co-PI Stephen P. Long, interviewed about CABBI grant, NPR and WILL, July 20, 2018:

Help or Hinder? Federal Agencies at Odds over Biofuels

Co-PI Tara Hudiburg on CABBI grant in Idaho Business Review, June 1, 2018:

Grant Aids University of Idaho Biofuel Program

Co-PI Fredy Altpeter on being part of CABBI, University of Florida news blog, April 2, 2018:

UF Joins New Center to Create Fuel from Plants

CABBI’s Stephen P. Long, Donald Ort, and Vijay Singh on new $10.6M DOE ARPA-E grant, IGB website, Feb. 25, 2018:

DOE grants $10.6 million to produce more biodiesel, biojet fuel

CABBI Sustainability Deputy Theme Leader Wendy Yang interview and video, The News-Gazette, Feb. 15, 2018:

Office Hours with Aldo: Wendy Yang

CABBI Director Evan H. DeLucia, IGB Director Gene Robinson on Kickoff Celebration, The News-Gazette, Feb. 1, 2018:

Search for Sustainable Fuels Drives Researchers at UI’s New Bioenergy Center

CABBI Director Evan H. DeLucia on Kickoff Celebration, WILL’s the 21st program, Feb. 1, 2018:

What is ‘Bioenergy’?

CABBI Kickoff Celebration, WCIA’s illinoishomepage.net, Feb. 1, 2018:

DOE Research Center to Host Celebration

CABBI Kickoff Celebration, foxillinois.com, Feb. 1, 2018:

University of Illinois Launches Bioenergy Research Center

Gene Robinson on the CABBI Kickoff Celebration, Daily Illini, Jan. 30, 2018:

Celebration for New $115 Million Center Set for Feb. 1

D.K. Lee interviewed in the Mattoon, Ill., Journal Gazette and Times Courier, Jan. 25, 2018:

New Study Focuses on Cellulosic Biofuel Crops

From Smithsonian, Nov. 21, 2017:

Can Sugarcane Fuel Airplanes?

From The Chicago Tribune, Nov. 21, 2017:

Jet Fuel from Sugarcane? It’s Not a Flight of Fancy

From The Conversation, Nov. 20, 2017:

Jet Fuel from Sugarcane? It’s Not a Flight of Fancy

Stephen P. Long interview with thenakedscientists.com, Oct. 31, 2017:

Could Sugar Help Us to be Greener?

From the U of I News Bureau, Oct. 23, 2017:

Scientists: Expanding Brazilian Sugarcane Could Dent Global CO₂

From Futurism, Sept. 14, 2017:

Sugarcane Could Create Cheaper, More Eco-Friendly Jet Fuels