Gerald Tuskan is the Director of the DOE Center for Bioenergy Innovation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Below, he shares his reflections on a career investigating the genetics of the poplar tree. Seventy million years ago, an asteroid blasted down from the sky. It smashed into southern Mexico, creating one of the biggest extinction […]
From sequencing the first tree genome to follow-on discoveries for better bioenergy crops, Gerald Tuskan has spent his career opening up new avenues of research to enable a thriving bioeconomy underpinned by technological advancement. Tuskan, director of the Center for Bioenergy Innovation and a Corporate Fellow at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, […]
A team of scientists with two Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers — the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, or CBI, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, or CABBI, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — identified a gene in a poplar tree that enhances photosynthesis and can […]
Using technology developed by researchers working with the Center for Bioenergy Innovation at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Dartmouth College, startup company Terragia Biofuel is targeting commercial biofuels production that relies on plant waste material and consumes less energy. The technology can help meet the demand for billions of gallons of […]
Gerald A. Tuskan, a Corporate Fellow and director of the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, or CBI, at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been selected as a DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellow, one of the highest honors bestowed by the agency’s Office of Science for outstanding scientific leadership and research community engagement.
A novel system for genetic engineering in plants that makes it easy to add and study multiple genes simultaneously has won a 2024 R&D 100 Award. The technology developed by a team led by Xiaohan Yang at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory doubles the speed and halves the cost of transforming plants to exhibit desired physical traits.
The Center for Bioenergy Innovation’s 2024 annual meeting drew nearly 200 attendees in July, sharing their progress in the pursuit of scientific breakthroughs for sustainable aviation fuel and a robust bioeconomy.
