2024 | February | Fractionation of biomass with CELF enables biorefineries with diverse, low-carbon product portfolios |
2024 | February | Variation in switchgrass yield and composition impacts economics and sustainability |
2024 | February | Microbial consortium effect depends on poplar genotype |
2024 | January | Engineering a synthetic Escherichia coli coculture for compartmentalized de novo biosynthesis increases production of esters from biomass mixed sugars |
2024 | January | Tailoring olefin distribution via tuning rare earth metals in bifunctional Cu-RE/beta-zeolite catalysts for ethanol upgrading |
2024 | January | Autoxidation catalysis for C-C bond cleavage in lignin increases the theoretical aromatic monomer yield |
2024 | January | Solid State NMR informs the selection of atomistic secondary cell wall molecular models |
2023 | December | Furfural a key model inhibitor in the development of lignocellulosic hydrolysate strains |
2023 | December | Lignin conversion to a performance advantaged biochemical via Pseudomonas putida |
2023 | December | Cloud native compute and data infrastructure for the Center for Bioenergy Innovation |
2023 | October | Carbon Capture from Corn Stover Ethanol Production via Mature CBP Enables Large Negative Biorefinery GHG Emissions and Fossil Fuel-Competitive Economics |
2023 | October | SAGE Technology Developed for Engineering Non-model Microbes Licensed by Two Companies |
2023 | October | Gene Fitness Profiling Elucidates Aromatic Catabolism in bacterium Sphingobium sp. SYK-6 |
2023 | September | A Key Regulator is Confirmed for Adventitious Root Formation in Populus |
2023 | September | Few-Shot Learning Enables Population-scale Analysis of Leaf Traits in Populus trichocarpa |
2023 | September | Testing Cas9/Cas12a Endonucleases to Improve CRISPR Editing Rates in Rice |
2023 | August | REDUCED WALL ACETYLATION C (RWA C) A Target Gene for Overcoming Biomass Recalcitrance in Populus |
2023 | August | Validation of a Metabolite GWAS Network for Populus trichocarpa Family 1 UDP Glycosyltransferases |
2023 | August | Flowering Time in Switchgrass is Affected by an Amino Acid Variant in a Key Gene |
2023 | July | Novel Split Selectable Markers Allow for Multi-gene Transformation in Plants |
2023 | July | Rewiring Metabolism of Clostridium thermocellum for Consolidated Bioprocessing of Lignocellulosic Biomass Poplar to Produce Short-Chain Esters |
2023 | July | Double DAP-seq –A New Technical Platform for Studying Synergistic DNA binding of Interacting Transcription Factors |
2023 | June | Enabling High-Precision Genetic Engineering in Poplar |
2023 | June | Re-examining Pyrophosphate Metabolism in Clostridium thermocellum through Genome-Scale Modeling leads to new Hypotheses |
2023 | June | Pentafluoropyridine with 19F NMR offers a safe and cost-effective alternative to quantify phenolic groups in lignin and lignin-derived products |
2023 | May | Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Allows Rapid Measurement of In Situ Nutrient Element Distributions in Plants and Soils |
2023 | May | Rapid Screening of Poplar Leaves for Aromatic Metabolites |
2023 | May | RB-TnSeqUsed to Identify Novel Bacterial Tolerance Mechanisms |
2023 | April | Progress in Measuring Plant Respiration as a Major Carbon Flux |
2023 | April | Fertilization Alters Plant–Fungal Interactions |
2023 | April | Bacterium that Switches from Ethanol to Propanediol Production |
2023 | March | Structural and Biochemical Insight into Populus trichocarpa β-1,4-Galactan Synthase |
2023 | March | How Fatty Acid Biosynthesis is Initiated in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 |
2023 | March | The Development of Better Biomimetic Substrates to Study Xylan-modifying Enzymes |
2023 | February | Extreme-scale Vector Comparison Enables High-resolution Climate Analysis |
2023 | February | New Enzyme Mechanism Elucidated for Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage in a Lignin Dimer Compound |
2023 | January | In Vitro Flowering in Poplar for Rapid Reproductive Trait Improvement |
2023 | January | Genetically Engineering Biosensors in Plants |
2023 | January | Identification of First RG-I GalA transferase RGGAT1: Opening the Door to Studies of Plant Cell Architecture, Cell:Cell Adhesion and Biomass Recalcitrance |
2022 | December | Plant Synthetic Biology – New Techniques for Sustainable Production of Biofuels and Biomaterials |
2022 | December | Hotspots and Sex-Biased Recombination in Populus trichocarpa |
2022 | November | Lignin Hydrodeoxygenation Catalyst Yields Aviation-Range Aromatics |
2022 | November | Engineering Auxotrophic Agrobacterium Improves Plant Transformation |
2022 | November | Engineering Clostridium thermocellum Glycolysis with ATP-pfk Creates a More Favorable Thermodynamic Driving Force |
2022 | October | Anaerobic Microbiomes Possess Powerful Enzymatic Strategies to Maintain Lignocellulose Deconstruction at High Biomass Solids |
2022 | October | A New Enzyme – a Rieske Non-Heme Iron Monooxygenases – Allows Rapid Guaiacol O-Demethylation for Lignin Catabolism |
2022 | October | Lignin-First Biorefining of Nordic Poplar Produces Cellulose Fibers which could Displace Cotton Production on Agricultural Lands |
2022 | September | Drought-Tolerant Poplar Enrich for Potentially Beneficial Microbes |
2022 | September | PdWND1B Transcription Factor Alters Lignocellulosic Biomass and Sugar Release in Populus |
2022 | September | Inter-Ecotypic Switchgrass Populations Provide QTLS Explaining Most Phenotypic Variation |
2022 | August | ZSM-5 Modifications Enhance Liquid Hydrocarbon Yields and Carbon Numbers for Jet Fuel Produced from Biologically Derived Alcohols |
2022 | August | Cosolvent Enhanced Lignocellulosic Fractionation Tailoring Lignin Chemistry to Enhance Lignin Bioconversion |
2022 | August | Laccase Specificity Determines Lignin Composition |
2022 | July | Lignin Pathway Modifications in a Model Grass Show Central Role of Ammonia Lyases in Carbon and Nitrogen Allocation |
2022 | July | Cu-La/Beta – Bifunctional Zeolitic Catalyst for One step Ethanol Conversion to Hexene and Octene rich Olefins |
2022 | July | Butanol or Isobutanol as a Value-added Fuel Additive to Inhibit Microbial Degradation of Stored Gasoline |
2022 | July | Biocatalytically Synthesized Xylans Self assemble into Microparticles with Tunable Properties |
2022 | June | Proteome Reallocation Enables the Selective de novo Biosynthesis of Non-Linear, Branched-Chain Acetate Esters |
2022 | June | Vapor-Phase Pyrolysis Screening Links Feedstock Type to Performance in Catalytic Upgrading to Generate Renewable Aromatic Products |
2022 | April | Demonstration of an In-Silico Approach for the Broad Screening of Carbohydrate Active EnZyme Capacities in Microbiome Bioreactors |
2022 | April | Rhamnogalacturonan I (RG-I) A Target for Improving Solubilization of Poplar Biomass by Clostridium thermocellum |
2022 | April | Deep Rooting in Switchgrass for Greater Nitrogen Uptake |
2022 | March | Diverse Aromatic-catabolic Enzymes are Reviewed for Lignin Valorization |
2022 | March | Harnessing Natural Diversity of Enzymes to Improve Metabolic Flux |
2022 | March | Rooting for Success across the Bioenergy Research Centers |
2022 | February | Multiple Arabidopsis galacturonosyltransferases play a role in the synthesize polymeric homogalacturonans |
2022 | February | Measuring plant roots is for everyone: RhizoVision Explorer |
2022 | February | Unusually high tricin lignin levels found in Vanilla planifolia aerial roots |
2022 | January | Increased Lactate Tolerance of Clostridium thermocellum |
2022 | January | Alternation of KNAT7 transcription factory expression in poplar changes cell wall characteristics and increases saccharification efficiency |
2022 | January | Protoplast fusion in Bacillus species produces frequent, unbiased, genome-wide homologous recombination to create a diverse library |
2021 | December | Hybrid Biological/Catalytic Processes Are Advantageous for Cellulosic Biofuels |
2021 | December | Controlling Selectivity of Modular Microbial Biosynthesis of Butyryl-CoA-Derived Designer Esters |
2021 | November | Research Highlighted on the Cover of Journal of Physical Chemistry |
2021 | November | Barriers and Solutions for Genetic Tool Development for Rapid Domestication of Non model Microorganisms |
2021 | November | A Gene-Editing Strategy for Overcoming Growth Defects in Plants with Engineered Cell Walls |
2021 | November | Inter-BRC Report on Frontiers and Opportunities in Bioenergy Crop Microbiome Research Networks |
2021 | October | Serendipita Fungi Modulate the Switchgrass Root Transcriptome to Circumvent Host Defenses and Establish a Symbiotic Relationship |
2021 | October | Dynamic Changes in the Populus Leaf Proteome Revealed Across a Diurnal Period |
2021 | September | A High Throughput Screening Platform Probes Enzymes for Designer Ester Biosynthesis |
2021 | September | Rational Enzyme Design for Controlled Functionalization of Acetylated Xylan |
2021 | August | Bioresource Technology Article Awards 2020 Presented at BIORESTEC 2021 |
2021 | August | Recent Metabolic Modeling Advanced by Leveraging Stoichiometry, Thermodynamics and Kinetics with Constraint and Machine Learning based Methods |
2021 | August | Computational Design and Analysis of Modular Cells for Large Libraries of Exchangeable Product Synthesis Modules |
2021 | July | Elucidating the Mechanisms of Enhanced Lignin Bioconversion by an Alkali Sterilization Strategy |
2021 | July | An Integrated Experimental/Informatic Approach to Characterize Proteins of Unknown Function (PUFs) in Bioenergy-Relevant Microbes |
2021 | June | Advances and Application of CRISPR Cas Systems and Protein Engineering |
2021 | June | Cross-National Analysis of Food Security Drivers |
2021 | June | Engineering Promiscuity of Chloramphenicol Acetyltransferase for Microbial Designer Ester Biosynthesis |
2021 | May | Virtual Early Career Appointee at CBI Anne “Liz” Ware |
2021 | May | Characterization of aromatic acid/proton symporters in P. putida KT2440 may allow more efficient microbial conversion of lignin related aromatics |
2021 | May | Metabolic Fluxes of Nitrogen and Pyrophosphate in Chemostat Cultures of C. thermocellum and T. saccharolyticum may control excess amino acids |
2021 | May | Water movement can supply motive force for chain entanglement between pectin chains and films |
2021 | April | Guidelines for Performing Lignin-first Biorefining |
2021 | April | Cytochromes P450 are effective biocatalysts for aromatic Odemethylation of alkylguaiacol substrates from lignin first biorefining |
2021 | April | Engineering of a CO2 fixing gene from desert plant Agave improves both plant growth and stress tolerance |
2021 | March | Lignin Utilization Strategies: From Processing to Applications |
2021 | March | 2021 DOE Genomic Sciences Program Annual Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting, Feb. 22-24, 2021 |
2021 | March | Economic Potential for Eucalyptus Production for Jet Fuel Additives in the U.S. |
2021 | March | Sucrose Trafficking and Water Use in Poplar is Modulated by a Key Transporter |
2021 | February | Adaptive Evolution of Pseudomonas PutidaKT2440 Improves Aromatic Catabolism and Tolerance |
2021 | February | A Novel Laccase Enzyme Facilitates Engineering of C-lignin |
2021 | February | BioFPRJournal Cover “Economic Impact of Yield and Composition Variation in Bioenergy Crops: Populus Trichocarpa” |
2021 | January | Combined Analytics and Modeling Probing Polymer-Polymer Interactions Within Secondary Cell Walls Leads to Better Structural Insights |
2021 | January | Enzymatic Synthesis of Artificial Polysaccharides Leads to New Biomaterials |
2021 | January | Impacts of Lignin Structures on the Lignin-grafted Polycaprolactone Copolymer, a New Biomaterial |
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 | 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 | 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 |
