The vision of JBEI (
www.jbei.org) is that bioenergy crops can be converted into economically viable, carbon-neutral, biofuels and renewable chemicals currently derived from petroleum, and many other bioproducts that cannot be efficiently produced from petroleum. Our mission is to establish the scientific knowledge and new technologies in feedstock development, deconstruction and separation, and conversion needed to transform the maximum amount of carbon available in bioenergy crops into biofuels and bioproducts. When fully scaled, JBEI’s technologies will enable the production of replacements for petroleum derived gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and bioproducts. Inside JBEI’s Emeryville laboratories, researchers use the latest tools in molecular biology, chemical engineering, computational and robotic technologies, and pioneering work in synthetic biology to transform biomass sugars into biofuels and a variety of bioproducts. As we want to maximize the overall carbon conversion efficiency of bioenergy crops, JBEI has focused on two microbial hosts that have been demonstrated to be able to co-metabolize sugars and lignin-derived intermediates,
Pseudomonas putida and
Rhodosporidum toruloides, and produce a targeted range of sustainable aviation fuels. This presentation will highlight the latest advances at JBEI in terms of bioenergy crops, deconstruction technologies, and microbial production of advanced aviation fuels, such as dimethylcyclooctane.
