Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC)

Big news! We are so excited to announce that @ENERGY has awarded #GLBRC and our partner BRCs 5 more years of funding to continue our mission of developing sustainable alternatives to fuels and products currently made from petroleum.

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DOE Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil visited UW–Madison and learned about Proteus, GLBRC’s AI-enabled autonomous lab.

The technology helps accelerate research on sustainable biofuels and biobased products.

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GLBRC scientist Bruno Basso of MSU has been selected to receive the 2026 Carl Sprengel Agronomic Research Award for his contributions to sustainable agriculture and crop productivity.

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Bailey Marshall, a PhD candidate in cellular and molecular biology at UW–Madison, studies genetic engineering of bacteria for better biofuel production.

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A new GLBRC study found that many biomass-derived toxins move through microbial cell membranes too quickly for microbes to pump them out efficiently.

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