Scientists at the University of Wisconsin­–Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which […]

It’s easy to root for Greg Desjarlais, a recent participant in the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program offered by the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research […]

If you’re made of carbon, precious few things are as important to life as death. A dead tree may represent a literal windfall of the […]

In their lab on a 20-acre prairie in Madison, Wisconsin, Xylome scientists are busy tinkering with the yeasts that live in the bellies of wood-boring […]

On Friday, May 13, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will host an event on microbiomes – communities of microorganisms that live […]

Making ethanol production efficient James Steele, Professor Department of Food Science UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences jlsteele@facstaff.wisc.edu 808-262-5960 2:55 – Total Time 0:11 […]

Long before Tim Donohue became a bacteriology professor and the director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), he was a teenage beach cleaner […]

To tackle what many consider the next frontier in biofuels research, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) recently joined forces with the Joint BioEnergy […]

John Ralph PhD’82 talks with the easy, garrulous rhythms of his native New Zealand, and often seems amiably close to the edge of laughter. So […]

A six-year Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) study on the viability of different bioenergy feedstocks recently demonstrated that perennial cropping systems such as switchgrass, […]