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GDCB Seminar: ISU’s role in CABBI — a flagship Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Center

Oct 9, 2020 - 4:00 PM
to Oct 9, 2020 - 5:00 PM
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Emily Heaton, professor in agronomy

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Emily Heaton, professor in the Iowa State University Department of Agronomy

Topic: ISU’s role in CABBI — a flagship Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Center

Abstract: This presentation will describe Iowa State University’s role in the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI; www.cabbi.bio), one of four flagship Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers, in hopes that ISU colleagues can find use for CABBI work in their own programs. As part of CABBI, faculty in Agronomy and Agricultural and Biological Engineering have set up a 65-ac research farm west of Ames to measure fluxes of energy, carbon, water, and nutrients from advanced bioenergy crops compared to corn and soy. CABBI is unique among the DOE Bioenergy Research Centers in that it is rerouting plant structural and metabolic carbon away from sugars and into lipids, which can be squeezed directly from stems and use for fuel or advanced biochemicals. I will describe the CABBI research platform, the ISU infrastructure and team, and some interesting findings to date.

Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/j.php?MTID=m552722056e5078dee22caa75af9541f1