2018
Precourt Institute for Energy
Principal Investigators: Lynette Cegelski, Chemistry; José Dinneny, Biology
Cegelski and her students have discovered a modified, more easily digestible cellulose in bacteria and the genes responsible for the modification. By engineering plants to introduce the modification into cellulose, Cegelski and Dinneny hope to make it easier to break cellulose down to its individual sugars during the biofuels production process.