The Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a $125 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Research Center, has announced an agreement with Wareham Development to lease space at EmeryStation East, a new state-of-the-art laboratory building in Emeryville, CA.
Jay Keasling, the CEO of JBEI, and his team of 150 students and scientists is engineering bacteria to convert waste-plant material (cornstalks, wheat chaff) into the hydrocarbons (the petroleum products) our economy relies upon. They're already making small amounts of jet fuel.
“We have very high hopes for JBEI in our quest for major scientific breakthroughs needed to make biofuels a commercially viable alternative to imported oil and other fossil fuels,” Orbach said. “It is our hope that this modern laboratory space in EmeryStation East, located in the heart of Biotech Country in San Francisco’s East Bay, will be a crucible for transformational discovery.”
JBEI is a partnership led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) whose mission is to speed the development of renewable biofuels – liquid fuels derived from the solar energy stored in plant biomass. JBEI’s other partners are Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California campuses of Berkeley and Davis, and the Carnegie Institution.
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