Category: Bioenergy and Bioproducts
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Posted on October 14, 2016
‘Super yeast’ has the power to improve economics of biofuels
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 […]
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Posted on August 16, 2016
MATC student Greg Desjarlais spends summer studying bioenergy at UW–Madison
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 […]
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Posted on June 9, 2016
Chemistry lessons from bacteria may improve biofuel production
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 […]
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Posted on May 23, 2016
Xylome’s quest to lower the cost of cellulosic ethanol
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 […]
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Posted on May 12, 2016
UW expert at White House summit
On Friday, May 13, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will host an event on microbiomes – communities of microorganisms that live […]
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Posted on April 22, 2016
Making ethanol production efficient – Audio
/RSS FeedMaking 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 […]
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Posted on February 1, 2016
Tim Donohue, the power of microbes and the pull of Rockaway Beach
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 […]
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Posted on January 14, 2016
Researchers collaborate to break down lignin and advance biofuels
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 […]
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Posted on January 7, 2016
The future, unzipped: Pioneering a technology that could revolutionize how industry produces biofuels
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 […]
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Posted on December 28, 2015
Six-year study suggests perennial crop yields can compete with corn stover
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, […]
