Design & optimization of biofuel production pathways Award Number: DE-EE0006113 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Bioenergy Technologies Office Date: 8/29/2016 Location(s): CA Office(s): Golden Field Office
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September 8, 2016
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Design & optimization of biofuel production pathways
Award Number: DE-EE0006113
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Bioenergy Technologies Office
Date: 8/29/2016
Location(s): CA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Lygos, Inc. to develop a biocatalyst for conversion of sugar feedstocks into fine and commodity chemicals.
Activities associated with the proposed project would include the design, genetic modification and development, in-lab fermentation testing, and analysis of microbes for use as biocatalysts in production of biochemicals from biomass sugars. These activities would be carried out primarily from Lygos, Inc.’s research and development facility in Berkeley, CA, and would be supported by the Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Emeryville, CA. The facilities where the proposed activities would occur were purpose-built for the type of activities being proposed; therefore, no new or modified permits would be required, and no construction of new facilities or physical modifications to existing facilities would occur as a result of the proposed project.