APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Biofuel production Food production Biomanufacturing ADVANTAGES: Increases antioxidant content in plants Accelerates photoprotection to improve photosynthetic efficiency ABSTRACT: A research team including Berkeley Lab’s Zhirong Li and HHMI’s Kris Niyogi has discovered a new enzyme that accelerates the xanthophyll cycle … [Read more...] about Optimizing Photosynthesis with an Enzyme from Green Algae 2016-105
Identifying Organism Interactions with High Throughput Enrichment Culturing 2016-132
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Microbial community engineering to Improve agricultural yields Design probiotic applications in humans or livestock Engineer increased industrial fermentor yields ADVANTAGES: Simultaneously evaluates all possible interactions from a mixed consortia High throughput Accurate ABSTRACT: Adam Arkin and Nicholas Justice of … [Read more...] about Identifying Organism Interactions with High Throughput Enrichment Culturing 2016-132
Five 2016 R&D100 Awards for Berkeley Lab Technologies
Berkeley Lab technologies enabling energy-saving roofs, next generation Li-S batteries, faster development of disease-fighting therapeutics, safer drinking water, and risk assessment for proposed carbon capture technologies each received 2016 R&D 100 Awards last week at a recognition event in Washington, D.C. Since 1984, Berkeley Lab has won 85 R&D 100 … [Read more...] about Five 2016 R&D100 Awards for Berkeley Lab Technologies
Fast, Accurate Estimation of Renewable Energy Generation on the Distribution Grid 2016-077
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Monitoring and control of distribution grid ADVANTAGES: Estimates real-time generation of behind the meter distributed PV Designed to become more accurate over time ABSTRACT: As the penetration of distributed generation on the grid from resources such as wind and solar increases, so does the complexity of operating a power … [Read more...] about Fast, Accurate Estimation of Renewable Energy Generation on the Distribution Grid 2016-077
Dub-seq: Double Barcoded Shotgun Expression Library Sequencing 2015-160
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Drug discovery and screening Functional genomics Synthetic biology Enzyme discovery ADVANTAGES: High throughput Scalable Less labor intensive and expensive than current approaches Enables gene function annotation ABSTRACT: Though current functional genomics technologies coupled with next generation sequencing have … [Read more...] about Dub-seq: Double Barcoded Shotgun Expression Library Sequencing 2015-160