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2022AugustZSM-5 Modifications Enhance Liquid Hydrocarbon Yields and Carbon Numbers for Jet Fuel Produced from Biologically Derived Alcohols
2022AugustCosolvent Enhanced Lignocellulosic Fractionation Tailoring Lignin Chemistry to Enhance Lignin Bioconversion
2022AugustLaccase Specificity Determines Lignin Composition
2022JulyLignin Pathway Modifications in a Model Grass Show Central Role of Ammonia Lyases in Carbon and Nitrogen Allocation
2022JulyCu-La/Beta – Bifunctional Zeolitic Catalyst for One step Ethanol Conversion to Hexene and Octene rich Olefins
2022JulyButanol or Isobutanol as a Value-added Fuel Additive to Inhibit Microbial Degradation of Stored Gasoline
2022JulyBiocatalytically Synthesized Xylans Self assemble into Microparticles with Tunable Properties
2022JuneArt Ragauskas receives Environment Prize from Royal Society of Chemistry
2022JuneProteome Reallocation Enables the Selective de novo Biosynthesis of Non-Linear, Branched-Chain Acetate Esters
2022JuneVapor-Phase Pyrolysis Screening Links Feedstock Type to Performance in Catalytic Upgrading to Generate Renewable Aromatic Products
2022AprilDemonstration of an In-Silico Approach for the Broad Screening of Carbohydrate Active EnZyme Capacities in Microbiome Bioreactors
2022AprilRhamnogalacturonan I (RG-I) A Target for Improving Solubilization of Poplar Biomass by Clostridium thermocellum
2022AprilDeep Rooting in Switchgrass for Greater Nitrogen Uptake
2022MarchDiverse Aromatic-catabolic Enzymes are Reviewed for Lignin Valorization
2022MarchHarnessing Natural Diversity of Enzymes to Improve Metabolic Flux
2022MarchRooting for Success across the Bioenergy Research Centers
2022FebruaryMultiple Arabidopsis galacturonosyltransferases play a role in the synthesize polymeric homogalacturonans
2022FebruaryMeasuring plant roots is for everyone: RhizoVision Explorer
2022FebruaryUnusually high tricin lignin levels found in Vanilla planifolia aerial roots
2022JanuaryIncreased Lactate Tolerance of Clostridium thermocellum
2022JanuaryAlternation of KNAT7 transcription factory expression in poplar changes cell wall characteristics and increases saccharification efficiency
2022JanuaryProtoplast fusion in Bacillus species produces frequent, unbiased, genome-wide homologous recombination to create a diverse library
2021DecemberHybrid Biological/Catalytic Processes Are Advantageous for Cellulosic Biofuels
2021DecemberControlling Selectivity of Modular Microbial Biosynthesis of Butyryl-CoA-Derived Designer Esters
2021NovemberResearch Highlighted on the Cover of Journal of Physical Chemistry
2021NovemberBarriers and Solutions for Genetic Tool Development for Rapid Domestication of Non model Microorganisms
2021NovemberA Gene-Editing Strategy for Overcoming Growth Defects in Plants with Engineered Cell Walls
2021NovemberInter-BRC Report on Frontiers and Opportunities in Bioenergy Crop Microbiome Research Networks
2021OctoberSerendipita Fungi Modulate the Switchgrass Root Transcriptome to Circumvent Host Defenses and Establish a Symbiotic Relationship
2021OctoberDynamic Changes in the Populus Leaf Proteome Revealed Across a Diurnal Period
2021SeptemberA High Throughput Screening Platform Probes Enzymes for Designer Ester Biosynthesis
2021SeptemberRational Enzyme Design for Controlled Functionalization of Acetylated Xylan
2021SeptemberGraduate student awarded “Best Student Poster” at Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Annual Meeting
2021AugustBioresource Technology Article Awards 2020 Presented at BIORESTEC 2021
2021AugustRecent Metabolic Modeling Advanced by Leveraging Stoichiometry, Thermodynamics and Kinetics with Constraint and Machine Learning based Methods
2021AugustComputational Design and Analysis of Modular Cells for Large Libraries of Exchangeable Product Synthesis Modules
2021JulyElucidating the Mechanisms of Enhanced Lignin Bioconversion by an Alkali Sterilization Strategy
2021JulyAn Integrated Experimental/Informatic Approach to Characterize Proteins of Unknown Function (PUFs) in Bioenergy-Relevant Microbes
2021JuneAdvances and Application of CRISPR Cas Systems and Protein Engineering
2021JuneCross-National Analysis of Food Security Drivers
2021JuneEngineering Promiscuity of Chloramphenicol Acetyltransferase for Microbial Designer Ester Biosynthesis
2021MayVirtual Early Career Appointee at CBI Anne “Liz” Ware
2021MayCharacterization of aromatic acid/proton symporters in P. putida KT2440 may allow more efficient microbial conversion of lignin related aromatics
2021MayMetabolic Fluxes of Nitrogen and Pyrophosphate in Chemostat Cultures of C. thermocellum and T. saccharolyticum may control excess amino acids
2021MayWater movement can supply motive force for chain entanglement between pectin chains and films
2021AprilGuidelines for Performing Lignin-first Biorefining
2021AprilCytochromes P450 are effective biocatalysts for aromatic Odemethylation of alkylguaiacol substrates from lignin first biorefining
2021AprilEngineering of a CO2 fixing gene from desert plant Agave improves both plant growth and stress tolerance
2021MarchLignin Utilization Strategies: From Processing to Applications
2021March2021 DOE Genomic Sciences Program Annual Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting, Feb. 22-24, 2021
2021MarchEconomic Potential for Eucalyptus Production for Jet Fuel Additives in the U.S.
2021MarchSucrose Trafficking and Water Use in Poplar is Modulated by a Key Transporter
2021FebruaryAdaptive Evolution of Pseudomonas PutidaKT2440 Improves Aromatic Catabolism and Tolerance
2021FebruaryA Novel Laccase Enzyme Facilitates Engineering of C-lignin
2021FebruaryBioFPRJournal Cover “Economic Impact of Yield and Composition Variation in Bioenergy Crops: Populus Trichocarpa”
2021JanuaryCombined Analytics and Modeling Probing Polymer-Polymer Interactions Within Secondary Cell Walls Leads to Better Structural Insights
2021JanuaryEnzymatic Synthesis of Artificial Polysaccharides Leads to New Biomaterials
2021JanuaryImpacts of Lignin Structures on the Lignin-grafted Polycaprolactone Copolymer, a New Biomaterial
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2020 December Enzymatic Synthesis of Artificial Polysaccharides Leads to New Biomaterials
2020 December Combined Analytics and Modeling Probing Polymer-Polymer Interactions Within Secondary Cell Walls leads to better structural insights
2020 December Impacts of Lignin Structures on the Lignin-grafted Polycaprolactone Copolymer, a new biomaterial
2020 December Jessy Labbe awarded 2020 Innovation Award
2020 December Highly Cited CBI Researchers recognized by Web of Science
2020 November Recent Advances in Biomass Characterization and Modeling – Special Journal Issue led by CBI researchers
2020 October Future Perspective of Plant BioDesign Research
2020 October Methods for Metabolic Engineering of Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum
2020 October Characterization of the willow sex determination system
2020 September Plant hosts modify the response of the belowground microbial community to extreme drought
2020 September Variation in Poplar Yield and Composition Impacts Biofuel Economics
2020 September Plant Biosystems Design for a Carbon Carbon-neutral Bioeconomy
2020 August Assessing the potential for greenhouse gas mitigation and carbon management with advanced biofuels
2020 August Genome-wide QTL detection for biofuel traits in switchgrass (
2020 August Reconfiguring Plant Metabolism for Biodegradable Plastic Production
2020 July Compensatory plasticity of lignification in poplar
2020 July Brian Davison named ORNL Corporate Fellow
2020 July Techniques for Determining the Function of Unknown Proteins in the O-Methylation of Plant Polysaccharides
2020 July Modular engineering of biomass degradation pathways
2020 June A novel green biomass pretreatment using cellulose-derived solvent Cyrene
2020 June Development of a genome-scale metabolic model of Clostridium thermocellum and its applications for integration of multi-omics datasets and computational strain design
2020 June Silencing folylpolyglutamate synthetase1 (FPGS1) in switchgrass (PanicumvirgatumL.) improves lignocellulosic biofuel production
2020 May Recent CBI Journal Photo Cover- PNAS Cover
2020 May Recent CBI Journal Photo Cover- Biotechnology and Bioengineering
2020 May Development of a novel approach for 100x faster identification of all five gene’s structural classes for the non-coding, catalytic RNase P
2020 May Harnessing metabolism modules to designan optimal modular chassis cell for production of diverse chemicals
2020 April P.putida secretes outer membrane vesiclesfor extracellular aromatic breakdown
2020 April Heterogeneous Catalyst Design Principles for the Conversion of Lignin into High‐Value Commodity Fuels and Chemicals
2020 April Endogenous carbohydrate esterases of Clostridium thermocellum are identified and disrupted for enhanced isobutylacetate production from cellulose
2020 March SNPeffect: Identifying Functional Roles of SNPs using Metabolic Networks
2020 March Epigenetic footprints of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in plants
2020 March The pentose phosphate pathway of cellulolytic clostridia relies on 6-phosphofructokinase instead of transaldolase
2020 March Improved thermophilic genome editing tools for engineering Clostridium thermocellum
2020 March Towards renewable flavors, fragrances, and beyond
2020 March K-FIT: An accelerated kinetic parameterizationalgorithm using steady-state fluxomicsdata
2020 March SNPeffect: Identifying Functional Roles of SNPs using Metabolic Networks
2020 March Improved thermophilic genome editing tools for engineering Clostridium thermocellum
2020 February A new technique measures chemistry and nanomechanics of native carbohydrate granules
2020 February Lignin valorization valorization-plant cell walls fight back
2020 February Costas Maranas receives the 2020 International Metabolic Engineering Award
2020 February Gregg Beckham receives the 2020 Charles D. Scott Award
2020 February The Critical Role of Lignin in Biomass Conversion
2020 January A wood-associated transcription factor affects lignin biosynthesis and composition in Populus
2020 January We determined the critical location for mutations in a novel regulator of lignin synthesis in poplar
2020 January Lignin biosynthesis: Old roads revisited and new roads explored
2020 January Synthetic Fungal Multifunctional Cellulases for Enhanced Biomass Conversion: New Design Principles for Superior Biomass Degrading Enzymes
2019 November Passive membrane transport is sufficient for many lignin related compounds
2019 November TEA/LCA shows that sustainabilityPassive membrane transport of lignin-related compounds
2019 November CRISPR Web Toolbox for Genome Editing in Poplar
2019 November CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Targeted Mutagenesis for Functional Genomics Research of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Plants
2019 November CRISPR Web Toolbox for Genome Editing in Poplar
2019 November Comparative Genomics Can Provide New Insights Into the Evolutionary Mechanisms and Gene Function in CAM Plants
2019 November CRISPR/Cas9 mediated Targeted Mutagenesis for Functional Genomics Research of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Plants
2019 November Determination of hydroxyl groups in biorefinery feeds via quantitative 31P NMR spectroscopy
2019 November Overexpression of a chaperonin protein decreases biomass recalcitrance in poplar
2019 November Engineered enzyme allows direct isobutyl acetate ester directly from cellulose by Clostridium thermocellum
2019 November Creative Discovery Museum receives Pinnacle Award
2019 November CBI Awards
2019 November Passive membrane transport of lignin related compounds
2019 August Hydrocarbon Projects –Advanced Biofuels
2019 July CBI Student Videos
2019 July A Closed-Loop Biorefinery using Renewable Deep Eutectic Solvents with Engineered Biomass
2019 July Molecular principles revealed for cosolvent depolymerization of biomass
2019 July CBI Student Videos
2019 June Wavelet-based Genomic Signal Processing Locates Centromeres and helps reveal an unidentified CENH3 gene in P. trichocarpa.
2019 June Characterization of a bifunctional C3H enzyme revises the currently accepted model of lignin biosynthesis in model plants
2019 May Differences in S/G Ratio in natural poplar variants do not predict catalytic depolymerization monomer yields
2019 May DOE Office of Science Early Career Awardees in CBI
2019 May Unraveling Complex Gene-Phenotype Relationships using Multi-Phenotype Association (MPA) Decomposition
2019 April 2019 Rutherford Aris Award Recipient
2019 April Annabel Large: Fulbright Scholar
2019 April Creation of a functional hyperthermostabledesigner cellulosome
2019 March Biomass augmentation through thermochemical pretreatments greatly enhances digestion of switchgrass by Clostridium thermocellum
2019 March Critical Review of Plant Cell Wall Matrix Polysaccharide Glycosyltransferase Activities Verified by Heterologous Protein Expression
2019 March BioinformaticResources for PopulusGenome Editing
2019 March Analysis of Lignin Carbohydrate Bonds in Plant’s Lignin Carbohydrate Complexes
2019 February Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Annual Meeting
2018 November Dixon named Fellow in The Royal Society and a Fellow in the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
2018 October Early Career Appointee at CBI –Breeanna Urbanowicz
2018 October One poplar 5-enolpyruvylshikimate 3-phosphate (EPSP) synthase moonlight as transcriptional repressor to regulate lignin biosynthesis
2018 October 9 CBI Awards
2018 October Highly Cited CBI Researchers recognized by Web of Science
2018 September Ragauskas receives Full Membership in Sigma XI
2018 September Multiple levers used to overcome recalcitrance of biomass
2018 September Pseudomonas putida’s tolerance to toxic biorefinery waste streams has been improved by 200-fold
2018 September Yellowstone National Park Sampling Trip
2018 September Expressing the Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum pforA in engineered Clostridium thermocellum improves ethanol production
2018 September novoStoic: Pathway design using de novo steps through uncharted biochemical spaces
2018 August CoMet: ExaOpComparative Genomics for CBI on Summit
2018 August Harnessing a P450 fatty acid decarboxylase from Macro coccuscaseolyticus for microbial biosynthesis of odd chain terminal alkenes
2018 August A two-phase model for the non-processive biosynthesis of pectic homogalacturonan polysaccharides by the GAUT1:GAUT7 complex
2018 July Common mutations which improves poor aromatic-degrading enzymes function after transfer into a new bacterial host
2018 July Multiobjective Strain Design: A Framework for Modular Cell Engineering
2018 July Biomass augmentation through thermochemical pretreatments enhances digestion
2018 June Nanometrologyof biomass for bioenergy
2018 June 2019 DOE Genomic Sciences Program Annual Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting
2018 June CBI Tours
2018 June Quantitative proteome profile of water deficit stress in eastern cottonwood (Populusdeltoids) leaves identifies key regulator
2018 May CBI Annual Meeting
2018 May TNT Cloning System selected as a 2018 R&D Finalist
2018 April Knock-down ofGalacturonosyltransferase-4gene leads to reduction in lignin-carbohydrate crosslinking in switchgrass
2018 April Ragauskas received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award
2018 April BRC’s representation at the Lignin Gordon Research Conference
2018 March 37 Cai awarded Future Technology Leaders Award
2018 March CBI Populusbiomass harvest
2018 March The Nature of the Progression of Drought Stress Drives Differential Metabolomic Responses in Populus deltoides
2018 March Beckham receives the 2018 Beilby Medal and Prize
2018 March Over-expression of poplar Galacturonosyltransferase(GAUT)12 confirms key role in xylansynthesis and recalcitrance
2018 March CBI Field sampling campaign to GWAS site
2018 March Consolidated bioprocessing inhibition at high biomass is mostly due to hydrolysis inhibition
2018 March A switchgrass transformation pipeline allowed coordinated construction and screening of over 88 genes
2018 March BESC Special Issue in Biotechnology for Biofuels: Findings and Perspectives from 20+ papers
2018 February The first Early Career Appointee at CBI –Davinia Salvachúa
2018 February Jacobson appointed to DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Informatics Advisory Committee
2018 February CBI was well represented at Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) XXVII, January 12-16, 2019. San Diego, CA
2018 February Gene targets found to improve Clostridium thermocellumLL1210 tolerance to acidic pH
2018 February CBI researchers to receive recognition at UT-Battelle 2018 Awards Night
2018 February Increased H monomers in lignin change molecular weight, linkages, structure and recalcitrance
2018 February Rapidly identifying new pathways for lignin valorization from non-model microbes
2018 January Westpheling elected President of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
2018 January Diel rewiring and positive selection of ancient plant proteins enabled evolution of CAM photosynthesis in Agave
2017 November Combining novel biomass pretreatment with fermentation may overcome the limits on operating high-solids fermentations
2017 November Overcoming Factors Limiting High Solids Fermentation of Lignocellulosic Biomass
2017 September A prototype 96-well plate assay for CBP was developed and validated
2017 September Tuskan, Dixon and Wyman –Highly Cited Researchers for 2017
2017 August Field-grown miR156 cisgenic switchgrass allows a method for bioconfinementdue to delayed flowering
2017 August novoStoic: Pathway design using de novo steps through uncharted biochemical spaces
2017 May BESC Special Issue in Biotechnology for Biofuels: Findings and Perspectives from 20+ papers
2017 April Engineered switchgrass and poplar, downregulated in Galacturonosyltransferase (GAUT)4, have both increased biomass yield and sugar release
2017 April A switchgrass transformation pipeline allowed coordinated construction and screening of over 88 genes
2017 March Increased H monomers in lignin change molecular weight, linkages, structure and recalcitrance
2017 February 4 Consolidated bioprocessing inhibition at high biomass is mostly due to hydrolysis inhibition
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2017February4 Consolidated bioprocessing inhibition at high biomass is mostly due to hydrolysis inhibition
2017MarchIncreased H monomers in lignin change molecular weight, linkages, structure and recalcitrance

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