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
DOE Announces $36 Million to Support Energy-Relevant Research in Underrepresented Regions of America
Aug 26, 2024
DOE announced $36 million in funding for 39 research projects in 19 states via the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).
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DOE Awards $7 Million for Bioimaging Research and Approaches for the Bioeconomy and the Environment
Aug 22, 2024
DOE Awards $7 Million for Bioimaging Research and Approaches for the Bioeconomy and the Environment
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DOE Announces $19.5 Million for Integrated Biological and Computational Low Dose Radiation Research
Aug 21, 2024
DOE announces $19.5 million in funding over 3 years for 14 projects on low-dose radiation.
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Gerald A. Tuskan Selected as 2024 Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellow
Aug 20, 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced four national laboratory scientists as the 2024 DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows.
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FUNDING: DOE SCGSR Program 2024 Solicitation 2 Cycle
Aug 15, 2024
Applications for DOE's Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program 2024 Solicitation 2 cycle due Wednesday, November 6, 2024, at 5pm ET.
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FY 2025 SBIR/STTR Phase I Release 1 Funding Opportunity Announcement
Jul 12, 2024
Topics for FY 2025 SBIR/STTR Phase I Release 1 Funding Opportunity Announcement have been issued
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DOE Accepting Applications: Undergraduate Internships for Spring 2025
Jul 11, 2024
Submit SULI and CCI applications by 5:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, October 2, 2024.
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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.
