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Welcome. www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org. 25 April, 2012. ebi program leaders. PEAK SEASON IN TORNADO COUNTRY. THEY CAN AND DO OCCUR AT NIGHT (W) on TV = SEVERE WEATHER ALERT SIREN OUTSIDE, GO INSIDE!. ebi program leaders. FIRE. You are in peak season in tornado country. Programs.

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  1. Welcome www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org 25 April, 2012

  2. ebi program leaders PEAK SEASON IN TORNADO COUNTRY • THEY CAN AND DO OCCUR AT NIGHT • (W) on TV = SEVERE WEATHER ALERT • SIREN OUTSIDE, GO INSIDE!

  3. ebi program leaders FIRE You are in peak season in tornado country.

  4. Programs Projects Feedstock Development Feedstock Deconstruction Fuel Synthesis Environment, Economics & Policy WHAT IS THE EBI? ENERGY BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE • 10 year $500M commitment. • Unique integration from crops to fuel and environment to law • Does not fund PI’s labs, but funds PI’s to participate within the EBI (now >100 staff). • New model for academic-business collaboration. Does it work? Over 220 IDFs, 13 patents filed, 160 articles in ISI listed journals, including Science, several graduate student awards. 62 Faculty Pis or co-Pis, 138 Full time Aps, Support staff, PDs, RAs First 5 Ph.D. graduate students from EBI – Proctor & Gamble, Monsanto, BP, Gates Foundation

  5. Cellulosic Ethanol Jennings, Louisiana, USA. 10 Million Liters/year. 2009 Cellulosic Ethanol Highlands Florida. 240 Million Liters/year. 2012

  6. WHAT IS THE EBI? ON CAMPUS ENERGY FARM

  7. Miscanthus x giganteus vs. Panicum virgatum

  8. Annual nitrate losses in drainage water measured four energy cropping systems. Measured via the instrumented field drains at the Energy Farm (2011). Maize Mixed Grass Prairie Switchgrass Miscanthus

  9. ebi program leaders EBI 21 PROGRAMS. THOSE AT ILLINOIS: FEEDSTOCK PRODUCTION/ AGRONOMY PROGRAM Tom Voigt (NRES) ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS FOR BIOMASS FEEDSTOCK PRODUCTIONK.C. Ting (ABE) MICROBIALLY ENHANCED HYDROCARBON RECOVERY Bruce Fouke (Geology) BIOFUEL ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS Madhu Khanna (ACE) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND SUSTAINABILITY OF FEEDSTOCK PRODUCTION Evan DeLucia (Plant Bio) ASSESSING IMPACT OF INSECT PESTS AND PLANT PATHOGENS ON BIOMASS PRODUCTION Michael Gray (Crop Sci) GENOMIC-DIRECTED IMPROVEMENT OF FEEDSTOCKS Stephen Moose (Crop Sci) DISCOVERY OF ENZYMES TO DEGRADE PLANT CELL WALL LIGNOCELLULOSEIsaac Cann (Animal Sci.) ENGINEERING SUGAR FERMENTATIONHuimin Zhao (Chem Eng) BIOFUELS LAW AND REGULATION Jay Kesan (Law) ENGINEERING ENZYMES AND METABOLIC PATHWAYS TO DEGRADE PLANT CELL WALL LIGNOCELLULOSE John Gerlt (Biochemistry)

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