Frontier Science for the Bioeconomy Workshop Series

The four-part Frontier Science for the Bioeconomy series defines frontiers of plant science, agriculture, synthetic biology, biobased materials, and environmental microbiome science that will unlock the promise of an innovative, resilient U.S. bioeconomy.

The bioeconomy is economic activity driven by research and involving innovation in the life sciences, engineering, and biomanufacturing. It includes industries, products (e.g., chemicals, biomass and seed oil feedstocks, and bioproducts), services, and processes derived from plant and microbial resources.

Hosted by the DOE Biological and Environmental Research program, the four workshops behind the report series brought together hundreds of participants from academia, industry, and DOE national laboratories, with expertise spanning plant physiology, plant genetics, genomics, computational biology, modeling, microbiology, and ecology.