Our CABBI superstar @LongLab is part of the effort!
In Seattle today thinking about where society will be by 2050. By 2050, we will need to produce 60 to 70% more food. How can we make this possible? By hacking photosynthesis and increasing crop productivity. https://www.fastcompany.com/90418608/bill-gates-wants-to-hack-photosynthesis
CABBI Colloquia
Once a month, CABBI is organizing a colloquium for all of its researchers. At every colloquium, one grad student, postdoc, or PI will give a 20-minute presentation on his or her CABBI research. The presenter finishes the presentation with discussion questions to the audience in order to identify new integration opportunities within a theme, across CABBI themes, and/or with other U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs). Each colloquium will finish with a networking event, including refreshments.
In the audience are CABBI researchers from all three themes. Scientists from the partner institutions are encouraged to attend and/or present through Zoom. The presenters will rotate among the themes and partner institutions.
Stephan Lane
Conversion Theme
Biofoundry Manager
Title of talk: “Illinois Biological Foundry for Advanced Biomanufacturing (iBioFAB)“
Date: Oct. 7, 2019
Rui Shi
Sustainability Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Jeremy Guest)
Title of talk: “Integrating Life Cycle Assessment and Process Design for Prioritization of Biofuels and Bioproducts Production“
Date: Sept. 9, 2019
Nicholas LaBonte
Feedstock Production Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Erik Sacks)
Title of talk: “Genomics-Assisted Improvement of Miscanthus and Saccharum as Bioenergy Feedstocks“
Date: Aug. 5, 2019
Nurzhan Kuanyshev
Conversion Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Yong-Su Jin)
Title of talk: “Discover Sugar Transporters Capable of Transporting Glucose and Xylose Simultaneously”
Date: July 8, 2019
Jeff Kent
Sustainability Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Tara Hudiburg)
Title of talk: “Modeling Energy Sorghum Emissions for the Rainfed United States”
Date: May 13, 2019
Sang Yeol Kim
Feedstock Production Theme
Research Scientist (Advisor Don Ort)
Title of talk: “Posttranslational Modification of Rubisco activase to Govern Photosynthesis and Growth”
Date: April 1, 2019
Ming-Hsun Cheng
Conversion Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Vijay Singh)
Title of talk: “Sugar Production from Bioenergy Sorghum by Pilot-Scale Continuous Hydrothermal Pretreatment”
Date: March 11, 2019
COLLOQUIA FROM 2018
Adam Von Haden
Sustainability Theme
Postdoc (Advisors Evan H. DeLucia and Wendy Yang)
Title of talk: “Improving our Mechanistic Understanding of Plant and Soil Processes to Refine Predictions of Ecosystem Carbon Cycling in Biomass-Based Cropping Systems”
Date: Dec. 3, 2018
Shuai Li
Feedstock Production Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Lisa Ainsworth)
Title of talk: “Testing Oxidative Stress Tolerance in C4 Bioenergy Crops”
Date: Nov. 12, 2018
Jing-Jing Liu
Conversion Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Christopher Rao)
Title of talk: “System Analysis of Lipomyces starkeyi Uncovered New Gene Targets for Metabolic Engineering”
Date: Oct. 15, 2018
Chongya Jiang
Sustainability Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Kaiyu Guan)
Title of talk: “Mapping marginal lands at field scale for the Midwestern United States”
Date: Sept.17, 2018
Hae Jin Kim
Feedstock Production Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Ed Cahoon)
Title of talk: “Synthetic Design of Plant Oil Metabolism”
Date: Aug.13, 2018
Tong Si