Turning Grass into Gas
BESC is a partnership for bioenergy solutions that is connecting the world’s leading scientific minds and resources. Our goal is to help develop viable, plentiful and clean alternative fuel sources for generations to come. For instance, turning common switchgrass or soybeans into fuel that runs your car.
Sound good? Check out our site to see some of the other exciting solutions we’re working on and how you can be part of the solution.
BESC Welcomes A New Affiliate
BESC welcomes a new affiliate Genera Energy LLC one of the nation's leaders in clean, domestic renewable energy creation and implementation—powering our future with nature’s resources while creating new economic opportunities for our nation's farmers and rural communities.
BESC Researcher Receives Award
Dr. Mike Himmel received the 2010 Charles D. Scott Award at the 32nd Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals in Clearwater Beach Florida held April 19-22, 2010.
Gene Discovery Potential Key To Cost Competitive Cellulosic Ethanol
Steven Brown and Shihui have developed a strain of microorganism with an improved ability to convert wood products to biofuel.
New BESC Partner
West Virginia University - Researchers at WVU are actively involved in an ongoing, NSF-supported association study in Populus and have been developing analytical and technical tools that will be directly applicable in the association mapping component of BESC. . . .
Biofuel Researcher Wins Biotechnology Award
Blacksburg, VA.- January 4, 2010 - Y.H. Percival Zhang, assistant professor of biological systems engineering at Virginia Tech, has been selected to receive the 2010 Daniel I.C. Wang Award. . . .
Bringing the best and brightest together
The mission of the Department of Energy BioEnergy Science Center is to revolutionize how Bioenergy is processed within five years. . .
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