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  • Posted on February 3, 2017
    Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center – Audio
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    Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center Shawn Kaeppler, Professor Department of Agronomy UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences smkaeppl@facstaff.wisc.edu (608) 262-9571 FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://cropinnovation.cals.wisc.edu/ 3:06 […]

  • Posted on November 28, 2016
    Food scientist aiding fuel ethanol with new engineered bacteria

    For James Steele, moving from the small fermenters where microbes make cheese, wine and beer to the multimillion-gallon tanks where corn is converted to ethanol […]

  • Posted on October 17, 2016
    With designer lignin, biofuels researchers reproduced evolutionary path

    When scientists reported in 2014 that they had successfully engineered a poplar plant “designed for deconstruction,” the finding made international news. The highly degradable poplar, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Posted on April 22, 2016
    Making ethanol production efficient – Audio
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    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 […]

  • 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 […]