A study from @CABBIbio found that energy sorghum behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Researchers believe careful fertilizer management could reduce its higher nitrogen emissions
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-energy-sorghum-combine-annual-perennial.html
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.
Kelsie Ferin
Sustainability Theme
Ph.D. Candidate (Advisor Andy VanLoocke), Iowa State University
Title of talk: “Field-Scale Analysis of Land Use and Climate Change Effects on Water Quality in the Raccoon River Basin”
Date: Dec. 14, 2020
Sebastian Varela
Feedstock Production Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Andrew Leakey), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title of talk: “Understanding Growth Dynamics and Yield of Biomass Sorghum Using High-Resolution UAV Imagery Time Series”
Date: Nov. 16, 2020
Saurabh Sinha
Conversion Theme
Co-Investigator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title of talk: “Bioenergy 101: Machine Learning”
Matthew Waugh
Conversion Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Yi Lu), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title of talk: “Novel Biocatalysts by Design: Designing Artificial Metalloenzymes for Selective Functionalization and Catalytic Upgrading of Unsaturated Fatty Acids”
Date: Oct. 12, 2020
Mark Burnham
Sustainability Theme
Postdoc (Advisors Wendy Yang and Evan DeLucia), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title of talk: “How Bioenergy Sorghum Influences Agroecosystem Nitrogen Cycling: Implications for Sustainability”
Date: Sept. 14, 2020
Ayman Eid
Feedstock Production Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Fredy Altpeter), University of Florida
Title of talk: “Towards Oilcane: Improving Genome Editing Tools for Precision Editing of Lipogenic and Agronomic Factors”
Date: Aug. 17, 2020
Pan Yang
Sustainability Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Ximing Cai), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title of talk: “Simulation of Cellulosic Biofuel Expansion through an Agent-Based Model: Investigation of Multiple Policies”
Additional discussion: “CABBI’s Data and Software Knowledge Base and Data Management Updates” by CABBI Data Manager Leslie Stoecker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: June 1, 2020
Meera Gupta
Conversion Theme
Ph.D. Candidate (Advisor Martin Wühr), Princeton University
Title of talk: “Quantitative Mass Spectrometry for Comparative Analysis of Yeast Proteomes”
Date: May 4, 2020
Madara Hetti Arachchilage
Feedstock Production Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Amy Marshall-Colón), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title of talk: “Identification of Sorghum Stem-Preferred Genes and their Cis-Regulatory Elements through de-novo Promoter Analysis”
Date: April 6, 2020
Caitlin Moore
Sustainability Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Carl Bernacchi), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title of talk: “The CABBI Flux Tower Network“
Date: March 9, 2020
Qiang Yan
Conversion Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Brian Pfleger), University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title of talk: “Characterization of Key Enzymes for Oleochemical Synthesis“
Date: Jan. 27, 2020
COLLOQUIA FROM 2019
Leslie Stoecker
CABBI Research Data Coordinator
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title of talk: “CABBI Data Management: Tools, Procedures, and Guidance“
Date: Dec. 2, 2019
Hans Müller Paul
Feedstock Production Theme
Ph.D. Candidate (Advisor: Matthew Hudson), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title of talk: “CROPSR: An Automated Platform for Complex Genome-Wide CRISPR gRNA Design and Validation“
Date: Nov. 11, 2019
Stephan Lane
Conversion Theme
Biofoundry Manager, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title of talk: “Illinois Biological Foundry for Advanced Biomanufacturing (iBioFAB)“
Date: Oct. 7, 2019
Rui Shi
Sustainability Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Jeremy Guest), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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), University of Idaho
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), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title of talk: “Testing Oxidative Stress Tolerance in C4 Bioenergy Crops”
Date: Nov. 12, 2018
Jing-Jing Liu
Conversion Theme
Postdoc (Advisor Christopher Rao), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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), University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Title of talk: “Synthetic Design of Plant Oil Metabolism”
Date: Aug.13, 2018
Tong Si