Systems Biology for Energy and the Environment
The Genomic Science program pursues fundamental research to understand, predict, manipulate, and design plant and microbial systems for innovations in renewable energy, insights into environmental processes, and biotechnological breakthroughs supporting the U.S. bioeconomy.
News & Funding
FUNDING: Early Career Research Program
Jan 17, 2025
BER is seeking applications for the Early Career Research Program. Pre-applications due February 18th.
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BER Position Available: Program Manager Biophysics
Dec 30, 2024
BER Job Opening Program Manger Biophysics
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FUNDING: Systems Biology Research to Advance Bioenergy Crop Production
Dec 12, 2024
Pre-applications close January 17, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET.
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DOE Announces $36 Million for Student Traineeships
Dec 9, 2024
DOE’s Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) initiative helps grow the STEM workforce.
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DOE Announces $31 Million to Build Research Capacity at Academic Institutions Across the United States
Nov 21, 2024
Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR) initiative will bring new performers, including minority-serving institutions and emerging research institutions, into Office of Science research.
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BER Researcher to Give Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Lecture
Nov 13, 2024
Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series Features Bioenergy Researcher Gerald Tuskan
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Genomics-Enabled Understanding and Advancing Knowledge on Plant Gene Function(s)
Oct 15, 2024
Funding Announcement for Bioenergy Crop Design
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Bioenergy
Providing the foundational genomics-based knowledge needed to produce and deconstruct renewable plant biomass and convert it to sustainable fuels, chemicals, and other bioproducts.
Biosystems Design
Accelerating the ability to securely design, build, and control plants and microbes for beneficial purposes such as clean energy, biomaterials, and carbon sequestration.
Environmental Microbiome
Developing a process-level understanding of how plant and soil microbial communities impact the cycling and fate of carbon, nutrients, and contaminants in the environment.
Enabling Capabilities
Computing and Cyberinfrastructure
Open-access and integrated computational and bioinformatic capabilities tailored to large-scale data science for research on plants, microbes, and their communities
Biomolecular Characterization and Imaging Science
Imaging and measurement technologies enabling visualization of the relationships among biomolecules, cellular compartments, and higher-order biological systems
DOE Scientific User Facilities
Integrated capabilities across user facilities and resources for genome sequencing and analysis, DNA design and synthesis, molecular sciences, structural biology, and imaging
Bioenergy Research Centers
Four Bioenergy Research Centers—each led by a DOE national laboratory or top university—take distinctive approaches to the common goal of improving and scaling up advanced biofuel and bioproduct production processes.
The multidisciplinary teams are tackling fundamental science challenges in:
- Sustainability
- Feedstock development
- Deconstruction and separation
- Conversion
Their research is identifying the genomic underpinnings of complex plant traits in promising bioenergy crops and streamlining deconstruction processes to funnel plant components into defined process streams. The centers are designing new pathways in microbes to convert plant biomass to a range of fuels, chemicals, and bioproducts. They also are developing the agronomic understanding needed to sustainably manage and produce bioenergy crops on marginal lands.
