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Professor wins NSF award Tae Seok Moon, an assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a prestigious Faculty Moon Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation for his project, titled “Engineering Biological Robustness through Synthetic Control.” Moon received a five-year $400,000 grant to understand the principles of biological robustness by using synthetic DNA in basic bacteria cells. The research could have implications for biofuel production and several other industries.
technology Institute and the Michigan State University Bioeconomy Institute worked with Verdezyne to run the bio-based DDDA process at the 4,000-liter scale. This production confirmed the scalability of Verdezyne’s process and produced polymer-grade material for potential customers and partners. Attorney named as Rising Star Anna Wildeman, an attorney at Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, has been named one of Super Lawyers Magazine’s 2014 Washington, D.C., Rising Stars. She is a member of Michael Best’s Energy Practice Wildeman Group and Agribusiness, Food Processing & Distribution Group.
Verdezyne reaches production milestone Verdezyne Inc. has produced more than Andritz to market Tornado 1 metric ton of biobased dodecanedioic acid Pulper technology Andritz Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the (DDDA) using its proprietary yeast platform and downstream process. The Michigan Bio- international technology Group Andritz,
signed an agreement with Bolton-Emerson Americas LLC giving Andritz exclusive rights to market and sell the Tornado Pulper for solid and liquid fuel applications, as well as biochemical processes. ABC presents projects of the year The American Biogas Council has named Stockton, Iowa-based AgriReNew and Stanley, N.Y.-based Lawnhurst Energy LLC as the Agricultural Biogas Projects of the Year. Harvest Power’s Energy Garden in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., was named Merchant Biogas Project of the Year. The ABC named the Michigan State University South Campus Anaerobic Digester in East Lansing, Mich., as the Institutional Biogas Project of the Year, while the Village of Ridgewood Biogas project in Ridgewood, N.J., won Biogas Project of the Year. SHARE YOUR INDUSTRY NEWS: To be included in the Business Briefs, send information (including photos and logos, if available) to Business Briefs, Biomass Magazine, 308 Second Ave. N., Suite 304, Grand Forks, ND 58203. You may also email information to evoegele@bbiinternational. com. Please include your name and telephone number in all correspondence.
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