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Catching up with CABBI Alumni
Q&As with some of the former graduate students, postdocs, and technicians who made their mark on our Center and have gone on to exciting new careers! A few of our CABBI alumni Kisurb Choe, 2017-23...
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Boeing Sponsors CABBI Summer Internships
A program that helps get undergraduates from groups underrepresented in STEM started in bioenergy research has received a major boost upon receiving generous sponsorship from The Boeing Company. 2021...
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DayCent-CABBI: New Model Integrates Soil Microbes, Large Perennial Grasses
The new microbe-explicit soil model (left) versus DayCent’s previous soil model that did not explicitly model microbe activity (right). Credit: Danielle Berardi Of all the carbon stored in ecosystems...
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New Resource Pinpoints Inner Workings of Sorghum Plant Cells
This award-winning image by Brandon James, Project Manager in the Swaminathan lab at the HudsonAlpha Institute, shows a thin slice of part of a Sorghum bicolor shoot apex. The fluorescent probes show...
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Fine-Tuning Leaf Angle with CRISPR Improves Sugarcane Yield
Eleanor Brant collecting leaf samples for molecular analysis of gene edited sugarcane. Credit: Charles Keato Sugarcane is the world’s largest crop by biomass yield, providing 80 percent of the sugar...
View ArticleStudy Identifies Best Bioenergy Crops for Sustainable Aviation Fuels by U.S....
Study will help growers and policymakers select the feedstocks most suited to meeting goals like reducing production costs, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and building soil carbon stocks. [...] Read...
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New Additive Process Can Make Better — and Greener — High-Value Chemicals
Researchers at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) have achieved a significant breakthrough that could lead to better — and greener — agricultural chemicals and...
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A Win for Interdisciplinary Training: CABBI Undergrad Takes Home ASPB...
Jack Mason This past June, CABBI undergrad Jack Mason won a hackathon competition at Plant Biology 2024, a yearly conference held by ASPB, the American Society of Plant Biologists. A hackathon is a...
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RISE 2024: An Exciting Experience for Everyone Involved
Mendoza at work in the field. Credit: Janith Chandrasoma Early this growing season, Andre Mendoza was hard at work installing mini-rhizotron tubes in several sorghum plots throughout the University of...
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CABBI Team Designs Efficient Bioenergy Crops That Need Less Water to Grow
Drought stress has long been a limiting factor for crop production around the world, a challenge exacerbated by climate change. For more than a century, scientists have targeted a key plant trait...
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