CABBI, Researchers in the Headlines
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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
Older News Items
January-June 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
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
CABBI Presentations
CABBI, presented by Director Evan H. DeLucia at Genomic Sciences Meeting, February 2018, Washington, D.C.
CABBI, presented by Director Evan H. DeLucia at Hokkaido University’s Global Institute for Collaborative Research and Education, February 2018, Hokkaido, Japan
CABBI Overview, presented by Director Evan H. DeLucia and Theme Leaders for Kickoff Celebration, Feb. 1, 2018, Urbana, Ill.
CABBI Research Objectives, presented by Deputy Director Stephen P. Long to the Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (BERAC), Nov. 2, 2017, Washington, D.C.
Overview of the Center, presented by CABBI leadership team to the U.S. Department of Energy, Oct. 19, 2017, Washington, D.C.
CABBI Posters
Feb. 25-28 2018 DOE Genome Sciences Program Meeting
Poster: “A general high-throughput platform for molecular prototyping of microbial cell factories via optically guided mass spectrometry” (abstract)
Poster: “Economic and Environmental Modeling of Bioenergy Production – Policy Impacts on Water Quality” (abstract)
Poster: “Environmental & Economic Bottom Line of Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts: CABBI Sustainability Theme” (abstract)
Poster: “Carbon Cycling in Biomass-Based Cropping Systems: Improving the Mechanistic Foundations of Plant, Microbial, and Soil Interactions” (abstract)
Poster: “Targeted Precision Nucleotide Substitutions in Sugarcane Following CRISPR/Cas9 and Template Mediated Genome Editing Confer ‘Gain of Function’ “ (abstract)
Poster: “Microbial metabolic engineering to produce alcohols from cellulosic hydrolysates”
Poster: “Engineering Rhodosporidium toruloides for increased lipid production” (abstract)
Poster: “Genomic-Enabled Breeding of Miscanthus” (abstract)