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Carrie Eckert is working toward a future in which engineered microbes and plants are the workhorses of ultra-efficient biofactories, turning biomass into high-value products. As co-chief science officer for DOE's Center for Bioenergy Innovation at ORNL, she is stewarding a team of scientists across the country who are making that vision a reality.
To meet the growing demand for faster scientific discovery that strengthens bioeconomy, plant scientists worked with manufacturing systems engineers at ORNL to develop robotics and computer vision to accelerate the development of new stress-tolerant plants.
ORNL has launched a novel robotic platform to rapidly analyze plant root systems as they grow, yielding AI-ready data to accelerate the development of stress-tolerant crops for new fuels, chemicals and materials. The new platform adds belowground imaging to ORNL’s Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory.
Scientists at ORNL were part of a team that identified the existence of a unique genetic code in microbes that can expand cellular building blocks in living organisms.
Scientists at ORNL have developed software that reduces the time needed for a key task in the development of custom microbes from a week to just hours. The new tool cracks a key defense mechanism of microorganisms, expediting the creation of microbes with desired traits for the production of new biofuels and other valuable products for the bioeconomy.
Scientists at ORNL have created a new method that more than doubles computer processing speeds while using 75 percent less memory to analyze plant imaging data. The advance removes a major computational bottleneck and accelerates AI-guided discoveries for the development of high-performing crops.
Brian Davison, chief scientist for biotechnology and a Corporate Fellow at ORNL, has been named president-elect of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the world’s largest chemical engineering professional society.
The Center for Bioenergy Innovation recently celebrated the success of its latest cohort of Fellows participating in its Early Career Development program, designed to build the next generation of scientific leaders advancing the bioeconomy.
Gerald “Jerry” Tuskan received the Marcus Wallenberg Prize, known as the Nobel Prize for forestry, for his pioneering work in sequencing and analyzing the first tree genome, enabling successive breakthroughs for genome-based breeding of commercially important trees, including as biomass feedstock crops.