Applications Open for 2024 Summer Internships
Underrepresented undergrads encouraged to apply for paid summer jobs with CABBI (travel and housing included); deadline Feb. 20. [...] Read More... from Applications Open for 2024 Summer Internships...
View ArticleCABBI Team Earns Exploratory Research Funding from EMSL
Leakey leading multi-omics study on lipid metabolism to further design of biofuel crops for sustainable aviation fuel. [...] Read More... from CABBI Team Earns Exploratory Research Funding from EMSL...
View ArticleGenetics of Host Plants Determine Microorganism Attraction
Researchers explore genetic variation in host plants to help improve productivity. [...] Read More... from Genetics of Host Plants Determine Microorganism Attraction The post Genetics of Host Plants...
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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...
View ArticleProtecting the Protector Boosts Plant Oil Content
CABBI scientists at Brookhaven offer new genetic strategy for preventing breakdown of plant oils needed for biofuels and other products. [...] Read More... from Protecting the Protector Boosts Plant...
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CRISPR-COPIES: New Tool Accelerates and Optimizes Genome Editing
CRISPR/Cas systems have undergone tremendous advancement in the past decade. These precise genome editing tools have applications ranging from transgenic crop development to gene therapy and beyond....
View ArticleCellulosic Biofuels a Win for Ground Transportation
Despite EV gains, conventional vehicles are likely remain the dominant transportation choice for the foreseeable future — so cellulosic biofuels are a good, sustainable option. [...] Read More... from...
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José Avalos: Engineering Light-Based Controls to Optimize Fermentation
Light-controlled fermentation in a bioreactor. Credit: Princeton University State Affairs. The yeasts targeted by CABBI Conversion researchers can be used to convert plant material into sustainable...
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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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