tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10478144082230618782024-02-07T20:24:11.346-08:00The BioEnergy Science CenterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-6302064848288991382016-09-27T10:00:00.003-07:002016-09-27T10:00:33.211-07:00Why Science? with Kyle Sander<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From ORNL Review </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Why Science? with Kyle Sander</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">READ MORE at.... </span><a href="https://www.ornl.gov/blog/ornl-review/why-science-3"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">https://www.ornl.gov/blog/ornl-review/why-science-3</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-71936157284474824302016-09-27T09:55:00.002-07:002016-09-27T09:55:14.020-07:00Where there'a a willow, there's a way - with Wellington Muchero<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">DOE Early Career Research Pram award winner for 2016 - Wellington Muchero</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">READ MORE at.... </span><a href="https://www.ornl.gov/blog/ornl-review/where-there-s-willow-there-s-way"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">https://www.ornl.gov/blog/ornl-review/where-there-s-willow-there-s-way</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-82650711566130887192016-09-19T12:37:00.004-07:002016-09-19T12:37:48.048-07:00The Poplar Genome at 10<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When the poplar genome sequence, generated by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, was published in the September 15, 2006 issue of the journal <em>Science</em>, we planted a commemorative sapling on our front lawn that was clonally propagated from the poplar or black cottonwood tree, <em>Populus trichocarpa</em>, whose DNA was used for the study.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">The Creative Discovery Museum receives the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) Pinnacle Award</span></h3>
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educators and other end users. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Receiving the award indicates remarkable quality of
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Mark Davis is the new director of the Biosciences Center at the Energy
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DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Plant science researchers at the <a href="http://www.unt.edu/">University of North Texas</a> have found potential new pathways for the creation of plant-based bioproducts. The research is outlined in a new article in the journal <a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/nplants201650">Nature Plants</a>.<br />
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The UNT research team was working as part of the US Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center coordinated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.<br />
The team looked into the roles of enzymes that convert amino acids into lignin in Brachypodium, a fast-growing model grass with a sequenced genome. Lignin is a substance that makes plants woody and firm, and, although it is an impediment to the processing of feedstocks for biofuels, it can be used to create a variety of bioproducts, including materials such as carbon fiber.<br />
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"As we studied the way different amino acids are converted to lignin, we found that there may be a new and unrecognized pathway for making lignin in grasses," said UNT Distinguished Research Professor <a href="http://biology.unt.edu/people/richard-dixon">Richard Dixon</a>. "A new pathway means potential for engineering more lignin in plants that don't possess that pathway, as well as an additional way of modifying lignin in grasses. This provides new opportunities for the synthesis of high value, high volume bioproducts that could significantly improve the economics of the bioenergy industry."<br />
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READ MORE .... <a href="http://news.unt.edu/news-releases/unt-researchers-discover-potential-new-paths-plant-based-bioproducts">http://news.unt.edu/news-releases/unt-researchers-discover-potential-new-paths-plant-based-bioproducts</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-51503715491532367472016-04-08T06:57:00.001-07:002016-04-08T06:57:02.653-07:00ORNL licenses AR-CITE software, plant gene technology<h3 style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 500 20px/1.1 "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
ORNL licenses AR-CITE software, plant gene technology</h3>
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ORNL has entered new license agreements with Foresight Science and Technology and GreenWood Resources. Foresight, a Comptche, California consulting company working with national laboratories and universities, licensed ORNL's AR-CITE copyrighted software and patent application that analyzes scientific literature to identify emerging technology trends. The company plans to use the technology to help partner institutions evaluate technology commercialization opportunities.</div>
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GreenWood Resources, a Portland, Ore., timberland investment and asset management company, licensed a patent application based on a gene that regulates phenylpropanoid, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis pathways which can be used to reduce lignin content and increase ethanol yield in biofuels feedstocks.</div>
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AR-CITE was developed by Bob Abercrombie, Margaret Lantz, Bob Schlicher and Rick Sheldon. The technology for plant and crops improvements was developed by Wellington Muchero, Gerald Tuskan, Lee Gunter, Sara Jawdy, Anthony Bryan, Hao-Bo Guo, Stephen DiFazio and Jin-Gui Chen. The licenses were negotiated by S&T Partnership's David Sims and Jen Caldwell.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-89432777241093000222016-03-08T09:31:00.004-08:002016-03-08T09:41:37.904-08:00Davison elected Fellow of AIChE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Brian Davison has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The fellowship is AIChE's highest grade of membership and honors senior member who have made meaningful impacts to the chemical engineering profession. Brian is the chief scientist for the Systems Biology and Biotechnology Initiative as well as the science coordinator for the BioEnergy Science Center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In a career spanning 30 years of bioprocessing research, Brian has been involved in numerous biotechnology projects and received numerous accolades for his work, including a 1997 R&D 100 Award for an integrative process to develop industrial chemicals using <em>Escherichia</em> <em>coli</em>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> He has published more than 145 research publications and holds nine patents. Davison earned his doctorate in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.</span> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-72386111675036798212016-03-04T06:57:00.001-08:002016-03-04T06:57:37.339-08:00DOE-funded Bioenergy Research Centers File 500th Invention Disclosure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Three U.S. Department of Energy-funded research centers - the BioEnergy Science Center, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Center and the Joint BioEnergy Institute - are making progress on a shared mission to develop technologies that will bring advanced biofuels to the marketplace, reporting the disclosure of their 500th invention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Learn about two of ORNL's </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/biofuel?src=hash"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><s>#</s><b>biofuel</b></span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> initiatives this Thursday at 2 p.m. with a <span class="twitter-hashflag-container"><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Periscope?src=hash"><s>#</s><b>Periscope</b></a></span> of the lab's greenhouses!</span> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-56676275966529471622016-02-05T14:11:00.002-08:002016-02-05T14:11:55.510-08:00NREL explains the higher cellulolytic activity of a vital microorganism<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) say better understanding of a bacterium could lead to cheaper production of cellulosic ethanol and other advanced biofuels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Their discovery was made during an investigation into the performance of <i>Clostridium thermocellum</i>. The scientists found the microorganism utilizes the common cellulase degradation mechanisms known today (free enzymes and scaffolded enzyme attached to the cell), and a new category of scaffolded enzymes not attached to the cell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The discovery came as a surprise to the researchers and explains the superior performance of <i>C. thermocellum</i> on biomass. A paper reporting the potential for the bacterium, </span><a href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1501254"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Dramatic performance of <i>Clostridium Thermocellum</i> explained by its wide range of cellulase modalities,"</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> appears in the current issue of the journal <i>Science Advances</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Read more... </span><a href="http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2016/21637"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2016/21637</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-44606002234319600042016-01-14T06:38:00.003-08:002016-01-14T06:38:23.633-08:00BESC study seeks nature's best biocatalysts for biofuel production<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Researchers at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center are looking beyond the usual suspects in the search for microbes that can efficiently break down inedible plant matter for conversion to biofuels. A new comparative study from Oak Ridge National Laboratory-based center find the natural abilities of unconventional bacteria could help boost the efficiency of cellulosic biofuel production.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-69926452284705456452015-12-01T11:47:00.003-08:002015-12-01T11:47:34.388-08:00ORNL Researchers Receive INCITE Award<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-0NFwVn9KDQ0RwnhwsbVOh2zD_t84Cgk92Z_c1fxziW26oeKOFPpUWyc4uWkHeuKTtLopnFN7nxwYGyZwcw45ckDZa6WblCRBt6qxRFsbjyXwyzA5_dbKGNeU3AxlpcDrARMmH7K3i_n/s1600/incite_doe.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-0NFwVn9KDQ0RwnhwsbVOh2zD_t84Cgk92Z_c1fxziW26oeKOFPpUWyc4uWkHeuKTtLopnFN7nxwYGyZwcw45ckDZa6WblCRBt6qxRFsbjyXwyzA5_dbKGNeU3AxlpcDrARMmH7K3i_n/s200/incite_doe.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Jeremy Smith, Xiaolin Cheng and Loukas Petridis of ORNL have been awarded a DOE Innovative
and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) award
providing supercomputer time on the ORNL TITAN supercomputer for their work in
BESC and a Biofuels SFA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The work will
be on a generic plant cell wall and its deconstruction for bioenergy for 100
million core hours for three years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Access
to high performance computing resources offers unique opportunities to
bioenergy research. Using INCITE we will be able to simulate many biomass
components, such as cellulose lignin and hemicellulose, reaching longer lengthscales
that that are not accessible using conventional computational resources. Longer
lengthscales enable a tighter integration of computation with neutron
scattering experiments performed at ORNL when researching for rational design
of more efficient biofuel production.
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">For a full list of awards: <a href="http://www.doeleadershipcomputing.org/awards/2016INCITEFactSheets.pdf">http://www.doeleadershipcomputing.org/awards/2016INCITEFactSheets.pdf</a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-52274607119702311102015-12-01T09:31:00.003-08:002015-12-01T13:52:05.041-08:00Neal Stewart elected American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dr. Stewart is the professor of plant sciences and holds the Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence in plant </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">molecular genetics, and is the director of the Tennessee Plant Research Center at the University of Tennessee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dr. Stewart teaches graduate level courses in plant genomics and research ethics
and an undergraduate course in plant biotechnology and genetics. He has given scientific and lay-presentations
around the US and in 16 countries. Dr. Stewart has authored or co-authored over
200 publications, including 4 books. He has editorial duties for 7 journals.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A new study from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory explains the mechanism behind a technology that converts bio-based ethanol into hydrocarbon blend-stocks for use as fossil fuel alternatives.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Scientists have experimented for decades with a class of catalysts known as zeolites that transform alcohols such as ethanol into higher-grade hydrocarbons. As ORNL researchers were developing a new type of zeolite-based conversion technology, they found the underlying reaction unfolds in a different manner than previously thought.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“For 40 years, everyone thought that these reactions must go first from ethanol to ethylene, and then from there it forms longer chains. We were able to show that it’s not how this occurs,” said ORNL’s Brian Davison, coauthor on the study published in Nature Scientific Reports.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">READ MORE.... </span><a href="https://www.ornl.gov/news/energy-efficient-reaction-drives-ornl-biofuel-conversion-technology"><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">https://www.ornl.gov/news/energy-efficient-reaction-drives-ornl-biofuel-conversion-technology</span></a></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-25672275028196280382015-08-14T09:12:00.001-07:002015-08-14T09:12:11.532-07:00BESC creates microbe that bolsters isobutanol production<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ornl.gov/ornl/news/news-releases/2015/besc-creates-microbe-that-bolsters-isobutanol-production">http://www.ornl.gov/ornl/news/news-releases/2015/besc-creates-microbe-that-bolsters-isobutanol-production</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Aug. 14, 2015 – Another barrier to commercially viable biofuels from </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">sources other than corn has fallen with the engineering of a microbe that improves isobutanol yields by a factor of 10.<br /><br /> The finding of the Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center, published in the journal <em>Metabolic Engineering</em>, builds on results from 2011 in which researchers reported on the first genetically engineered microbe to produce isobutanol directly from cellulose.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096717615000804"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096717615000804</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-70551144450648573192015-08-12T07:15:00.002-07:002015-08-12T07:15:43.648-07:00New ORNL hybrid microscope offers unparalleled capabilities<a href="http://www.ornl.gov/ornl/news/news-releases/2015/new-ornl-hybrid-microscope-offers-unparalleled-capabilities"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.ornl.gov/ornl/news/news-releases/2015/new-ornl-hybrid-microscope-offers-unparalleled-capabilities</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A microscope being developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Laboratory will allow scientists studying biological and synthetic materials to simultaneously observe chemical and physical properties on and beneath the surface.<br /><br /> The Hybrid Photonic Mode-Synthesizing Atomic Force Microscope is unique, according to principal investigator Ali Passian of ORNL’s Quantum Information System group. As a hybrid, the instrument, described in a paper published in <em>Nature Nanotechnology</em>, combines the disciplines of nanospectroscopy and nanomechanical microscopy.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-92143529094869594542015-08-10T09:21:00.001-07:002015-08-10T09:23:24.951-07:00Interview with Dr. Jan Westpheling<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dr. Jan Westpheling: Fueling Up on Inspiration Investigating How Bacteria Can Facilitate Biofuel Production</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dr. Jan Westpheling is a Professor of Genetics in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">at the University of Georgia. She received her B.S. degree in Microbiology from Purdue University. Jan worked as a Research Technician at Eli Lilly before going back to graduate school to earn her Ph.D. in Genetics from the John Innes Institute. She worked for a year for Biogen in Geneva, conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University, and served on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School before joining the faculty at the University of Georgia where she is today. Jan is a two-time recipient of the Creative Research Medal from the University of Georgia, and she served as a Member of the National Research Council Committee on the Development and Acquisition of Medical Countermeasures against Biological Warfare Agents in 2005. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-24696209345795361552015-06-03T09:35:00.002-07:002015-06-03T09:37:35.261-07:00BESC, Mascoma develop revolutionary microbe for biofuel production<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Biofuels pioneer Mascoma LLC and the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">have developed a revolutionary strain of yeast that could help significantly accelerate the development of biofuels from nonfood plant matter. <br /><br /> The approach could provide a pathway to eventual expansion of biofuels production beyond the current output limited to ethanol derived from corn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-17134775779951920972015-05-28T06:01:00.001-07:002015-05-28T06:01:48.748-07:00Olivia Thompson - First-generation college student helps fuel development of biomass<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiArL_-UkdKiLkqPEc2Ief4M5dS5bI9tROuTRRLTZxc6Hd_fKfhBVk28Tv8mOdu5pJIIv-LON7qFyuioNhtXhVHI7PX3YD0FN1gPdU96uxGRZA4-VqM49AIb7P_yhlXTllYsz-oif9tUJQr/s1600/profile14-olivia-thompson-450.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiArL_-UkdKiLkqPEc2Ief4M5dS5bI9tROuTRRLTZxc6Hd_fKfhBVk28Tv8mOdu5pJIIv-LON7qFyuioNhtXhVHI7PX3YD0FN1gPdU96uxGRZA4-VqM49AIb7P_yhlXTllYsz-oif9tUJQr/s200/profile14-olivia-thompson-450.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Recent college graduate Olivia Thompson studied biofuels at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a Volkswagen Distinguished Scholar, where she took part in a national initiative to increase the sustainability and fuel yield of biomass production.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-70903592617649379472015-04-29T08:43:00.001-07:002015-04-29T09:28:47.267-07:00James Liao of UCLA elected member of the National Academy of Sciences<br />
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James (Jim) C. Liao has been elected as
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Liao is the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Professor of Chemical Engineering in
the UCLA Henry </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Samueli</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> School of Engineering and Applied
Science at the University of California – Los </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Angeles</span></span></div>
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liquid fuel isobutanol while </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.12in;">simultaneously
consuming </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.12in;">carbon </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.12in;">dioxide.</span></li>
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electricity and from waste proteins; as well as identifying a more efficient
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-48346319512090570092015-04-14T08:00:00.006-07:002015-04-14T08:00:46.909-07:00New ORNL, N.C. State, LanzaTech DNA dataset is potent, accessible tool<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Scientists focused on producing biofuels more efficiently have a new powerful dataset to help them study the DNA of microbes that fuel bioconversion and other processes.<br /><br /> In a paper published in <em>Nature Scientific Data</em>, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, North Carolina State University and LanzaTech describe methods and results for sequencing the <em>Clostridium autoethanogenum</em> bacterium. These and other microorganisms play important roles in biofuels, agriculture, food production, the environment, health and disease.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-25319201483771417742015-03-18T13:16:00.002-07:002015-03-18T13:16:27.978-07:00UGA Researchers create fast-growing trees that are easier to turn into fuel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 15px/24px Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/fast-growing-trees-that-are-easier-to-turn-into-fuel-0315/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/fast-growing-trees-that-are-easier-to-turn-into-fuel-0315/</span></a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047814408223061878.post-22664446308153983322015-03-13T13:09:00.005-07:002015-03-13T13:09:53.823-07:00NCSU discover unique proteins found in heat-loving organisms bind well to plant matter<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Unique proteins newly discovered in heat-loving bacteria are more than capable of attaching themselves to plant cellulose, possibly paving the way for more efficient methods of converting plant matter into biofuels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The unusual proteins, called tapirins (derived from the Maori verb ‘to join’), bind tightly to cellulose, a key structural component of plant cell walls, enabling these bacteria to break down cellulose. The conversion of cellulose to liquid biofuels, such as ethanol, is paramount to the use of renewable feedstocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Read more at; </span><a href="https://news.ncsu.edu/2015/03/unique-proteins-bind-to-cellulose/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">https://news.ncsu.edu/2015/03/unique-proteins-bind-to-cellulose/</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0