Category: Bioenergy and Bioproducts
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Posted on October 22, 2018
Red-hued yeasts hold clues to producing better biofuels
A compound that has scientists seeing red may hold the key to engineering yeasts that produce better biofuels. A red pigment called pulcherrimin, naturally produced […]
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Posted on October 15, 2018
Researchers find value in unusual type of lignin
An ideal biorefinery would turn renewable crops into a variety of fuels and products with little waste. A significant challenge in realizing this vision is […]
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Posted on June 23, 2018
Daniel Amador-Noguez wins Department of Energy early career award
A prestigious early-career award from the U.S. Department of Energy will help a University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher and his team create new modeling tools that […]
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Posted on March 12, 2018
Can perennial bioenergy crops help sequester carbon?
In an article published last summer in Science, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) reported on ten years of work assessing the potential climate benefit […]
- Posted on March 5, 2018
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Posted on January 8, 2018
Sale of Lactic Solutions marks success for UW
The sale this past fall of a UW–Madison spinoff that promises to increase efficiency and reduce antibiotic use in making fuel ethanol marks a victory […]
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Posted on December 4, 2017
UW–Madison researchers explore the future of bioenergy crops in Wisconsin
In Wisconsin, as in many other parts of the Midwest, we grow a lot of corn – four million acres of it, in fact. That’s […]
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Posted on November 27, 2017
UW entrepreneurial pipeline lands Lactic Solutions in biofuels marketplace
When Jim Steele thinks back over the last seven years, from the early research on biofuels, followed by a dream of moving Lactic Solutions LLC […]
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Posted on October 9, 2017
UW wins $7 million grant to wean crops from nitrogen fertilizers
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Florida will use a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study […]
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Posted on September 14, 2017
Tim Donohue named interim director of Wisconsin Energy Institute
Tim Donohue, director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and UW Foundation Chairman Fetzer-Bascom Professor in bacteriology, will serve as the new interim […]