APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Lignocellulosic biofuel production High value chemical production ADVANTAGES: Rapid, high throughput Simultaneously detects several enzyme activities ABSTRACT: Lignin, a major component of lignocellulosic biomass, may be an important starting material for biomaterial or biofuel production. Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy … [Read more...] about Determining Ligninases Activities through Nanostructure Initiator Mass Spectrometry (NIMS) 2016-109
Biotechnology
Optimizing Photosynthesis with an Enzyme from Green Algae 2016-105
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
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
A Universal Approach to Integrate and Express Pathways in a Broad Range of Bacteria 2016-024
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Microbiome engineering for medicine, agriculture, biomanufacturing and renewable energy Pharmaceutical synthesis Commodity chemical and biofuel production Livestock research and development ADVANTAGES: Enables high-throughput, stable, accurate, efficient gene integration and expression of very large DNA constructs (e.g., … [Read more...] about A Universal Approach to Integrate and Express Pathways in a Broad Range of Bacteria 2016-024